Archive for November 2022
Buntain teaches students to ‘proclaim God’s wondrous deeds’ to the nations
Ian Buntain’s heart for reaching the lost and raising up a new generation of Christian leaders has been cultivated by his number one love, Jesus Christ, and the culmination of 34 years spent serving with the North American Mission Board and International Mission Board. Buntain, who has served as the director of the World Missions…
Read MoreWaggener’s help for doctoral students in synchronous program hits close to home
When Joshua Waggener, professor of church music and worship in the School of Church Music and Worship (SCMW) at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2014, it took him five years and numerous trips “across the pond,” he said, to graduate from Durham University in England. Now, as the coordinator…
Read More‘Been there and done that’: Fish School faculty bring 163 years of combined missionary service to classrooms at Southwestern
With a combined 163 years of Southern Baptist missionary experience, the faculty of the Roy J. Fish School of Evangelism and Missions at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary teach the next generation of missionaries from theological and biblical foundations lived out in real-life experiences across the world. “The collective amount of field missions experience among our…
Read MoreEast Texas couple’s legacy of support continues to help future ministers
More than $2.5 million has funded scholarships at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary for students related to the Neches River Baptist Association in East Texas, thanks to an endowment fund and scholarship established nearly 30 years ago. Since then, the Tom and Madge Bean Dauphin Endowed Memorial Scholarships have been awarded to more than 100 students,…
Read More‘The most unsafe place I’ve been in my life’: Southwestern student recalls lessons from the underground church
After walking two hours across a desert in 2018, a Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary student said he attended an underground church in a country he described as “the most unsafe place I’ve been in my life.” And he means a church that is literally under the ground of the desert. “You have to walk, or…
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