Archive for March 2024
Hale, Grahams honored with Southwestern Seminary’s Carroll, Scarborough awards
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary honored two longtime ministry partners for their generosity and support during the annual Founder’s Day Awards Luncheon held March 19. JoAn Hale received the B.H. Carroll Award, and Jack and Deborah Graham received the L.R. Scarborough Award. Following a Founder’s Day chapel address by Timothy George, distinguished professor of divinity and…
Read MoreRetired counseling professor Wynona Elder dies at 89
Wynona Tipton Elder, retired professor of psychology and counseling at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, died March 15. She was 89. “The Southwestern Seminary community is grateful for Dr. Wynona Elder’s years of service to students and colleagues alike,” said President David S. Dockery. “We offer our prayers and Christian sympathy to her family and friends…
Read MoreJarvis learns life lessons through TBC professors
In between throwing the discus as a high school athlete at track meets, Jordan Jarvis, a Bachelor of Arts in Christian studies student at Texas Baptist College (TBC), said he was “just talking to girls” while there was “this guy” who “kept coming over and talking” to him. Jarvis remembered later learning “the guy,” who…
Read MoreSending Church Summit focuses on Great Commission
The Great Commission is a mandate, or command, meaning there is no option. It’s “the marching orders of the church,” said Carroll Marr, senior pastor at Southcliff Church in Fort Worth. Marr was the opening speaker of the second Sending Church Summit, hosted March 4 by the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s World Missions Center (WMC).…
Read MoreSmith uses musical gifts to exalt Christ’s name, not her own
Though she didn’t see it at the time, Courtney Smith, a Master of Music in worship leadership student at Southwestern Seminary, said God used her time serving in a worship band at the Baptist Student Union at East Central Community College (ECCC) and the college ministry worship band at Clarke-Venable Baptist Church, both in Decatur,…
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