Archive for September 2024
‘Missions Guy’ Jim Walters seeks to bring the Gospel to people in multi-housing communities
A movement that began more than 30 years ago is making a comeback, this time with churches and organizations taking to the streets of their own cities to fulfill the Great Commission. Multi-housing ministry seeks to bring the Gospel to those living in multi-housing communities. According to the National Multi-Family Housing Council, 37 percent of…
Read MoreCarl Trueman to address movements, ideas shaping present culture in lecture series
Noted author, historian, and theologian Carl R. Trueman will guide Christians to think through the movements and ideas that are shaping the present culture during a two-part lecture series scheduled Oct. 17-18 at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. The lectures, which are part of the seminary’s historic Day-Higginbotham Lectures, is being presented…
Read MoreIn first TBC Chapel as dean, Bradford challenges students to be true disciples of Christ
On Sept. 18, Carl Bradford led his first chapel service as the recently appointed dean of Texas Baptist College. The worship service was filled with students and faculty, some standing on the sides with no place to sit left in Draper Auditorium in Mathena Hall. The dean began his message with a resonating statement: “We…
Read MoreFormer missions professor Earl Martin passes away
After a 14-month battle with cancer, Earl R. Martin passed peacefully at home surrounded by loved ones on August 23, 2024, in Fort Worth, Texas. Martin, who taught missiology and world religions at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1982-1987, was born in Milton, Pennsylvania, in 1927. In 1948, he married Mary Jane Winchester, his high school…
Read MoreWedgwood marks 25th anniversary of deadly shooting while looking ahead
Sadness as well as hope was present throughout the full sanctuary at Wedgwood Baptist Church Sunday as the congregation held a special service Sept. 15 in remembrance of the shooting that happened there 25 years ago on that day, leaving seven of their members injured and seven others killed, including several teenagers and Southwestern Baptist…
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