New 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…

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HOW-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…

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Dark 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…

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Pioneer 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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