Archive for May 2020
This Week on the Hill: “Ministry Now” launches, Student shares gospel online
“This Week on the Hill” is a weekly roundup of campus news, announcements, and events from Southwestern Seminary and Scarborough College. Ministry Now: Leading from the Second Chair with Terri Stovall How do you lead through change, when you’re not the one in charge? Last week on Ministry Now, we met with Dr. Terri Stovall…
Read MoreNew video series helps ministers live their calling in midst of COVID-19
“Ministry Now” is a new video series featuring interviews with faculty from The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary designed to help ministers live their calling “in an ever-changing ministry landscape,” especially due to COVID-19, said host Katie McCoy, assistant professor of theology in women’s studies at Scarborough College, in the series’ premiere. New episodes of the series air…
Read MoreHOW-TO: Know whether God has called you to be a missionary
Editor’s Note: The following was written by John D. Massey, dean of the Roy J. Fish School of Evangelism and Missions at The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. This article originally appeared in the spring 2020 issue of Southwestern News (pg. 25). God has called all believers without exception to engage the Great Commission, making disciples of all…
Read MoreDark Shadows & Bright Promises: The ‘missionary vision and passion’ planted in Brazil by the ‘first Southwesterner’ continues to grow
Editor’s Note: The following feature story originally appeared in the spring 2020 issue of Southwestern News (pgs. 46-55). The events recounted herein took place before the outbreak of COVID-19. “I think this verse characterizes my grandparents’ journey to and ministry in Brazil,” AnneLu Bagby remarked. She held up an unused children’s coloring book page she had…
Read MorePioneer Builders: The Bagbys took the Gospel to Brazil—139 years later, the entire country is changed
Editor’s Note: The following article originally appeared in the spring 2020 issue of Southwestern News (pgs. 48-54) alongside a larger feature about mission work in Brazil. In terms of pioneer mission work, Buck and Anne Bagby are to Brazil what Lottie Moon is to China. The first Baptist missionaries to Brazil, arriving in Rio de Janeiro in 1881,…
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