Posts by Ashley Allen
Missionaries encourage students to see difficulties as ‘relative’ in light of the cross
Difficulties in life as a missionary are “relative,” Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Texas Baptist College students heard from a panel of International Mission Board missionaries during the “Difficult Places” dinner Sept. 7 as part of the institution’s Global Missions Week. In opening remarks before missionaries who serve among Central Asia, Deaf, South Asia, and…
Read MoreLessons learned on the mission field taught to students over breakfast
During “Breakfast with a Missionary,” a come-and-go event held Sept. 7 as part of the weeklong Global Missions Week on the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary campus, Catherine Walker* learned what keeps missionaries on the field. Through interactions with missionaries who serve with the International Mission Board, Walker, a Master of Divinity student with a concentration…
Read MoreCrider uses innovative pedagogy to teach students the ‘magic’ of writing
Rylee Riggins, who is “not a morning person at all,” said she woke up “excited” every morning in the spring for her 8:30 a.m. writing class with Amy Crider during the second semester of her freshman year at Texas Baptist College. A Lantana, Texas, native who was the 2022 recipient of the TBC Scholarship Essay…
Read MoreSouthwesterners serving overseas return to Seminary Hill for Global Missions Week
As the flags during the “Parade of Nations” came through the center aisle of Truett Auditorium on the campus of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary during Global Missions Week in the mid-1990s, Jamie* wondered what the non-descript grey flag among all the multi-colored flags represented. After tracking down a representative from the International Mission Board to…
Read MoreScrivener equips East Texas students to apply apologetics to everyday life
Among the piney woods of deep East Texas, Don Scrivener, a 2007 Master of Arts in Christian Education graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, is seeking to equip the students at Denman Avenue Baptist Church in Lufkin with the tools of apologetics. A 15-year veteran of student ministry, Scrivener said during the five years he…
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