Prospective students encouraged to live, refine callings at Preview Day

Prospective Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Texas Baptist College students were encouraged to understand, live, and refine their callings by President Adam W. Greenway during Preview Day on April 8.

“We want you to experience the difference that is Southwestern Seminary,” Greenway said in his welcome to prospective students and their guests. “We want you to have a sense of what the Lord is doing here that truly is, we believe, unique in the state, in the world of theological education. There are opportunities for studies here that you can’t find anywhere else.”

Greenway emphasized the “Southwestern family” found on the Fort Worth campus’ community environment. He told prospective students Preview Day would allow them the opportunity to experience the campus atmosphere for themselves because “something sacred happens here that you can’t reproduce in a Zoom context.”

Recalling the history of Southwestern Seminary since the institution’s founding in 1908, Greenway noted, “more people have been trained for international missionary service at Southwestern Seminary than any other seminary in the history of North American theological education.”

Greenway also told prospective students the innovative history of the School of Church Music and Worship and the Jack D. Terry School of Educational Ministries. He observed both schools were the first of their kind when they were elevated from departments to schools in 1921, and that both schools are the last free-standing graduate schools committed to their specific academic disciplines.

Southwestern Seminary is “like a theological university,” Greenway said, with size, breadth, and depth of faculty and degree programs “that is unlike anything anywhere else.”

Yeong Hyun from Auburn, Alabama, attended to learn more about the Master of Divinity degree. Hyun was encouraged to study at the school based on the recommendation of his pastor. Hyun, whose parents are church planting missionaries, believes God has called him to teach the Bible to children who are refugees from other countries.

Hyun believes the programs at Southwestern Seminary will help him “do or achieve the things God has called me to do” while also teaching him “how to do the ministry.”

Annalysse Miller, a high school student from Belton, Texas, who will begin at Texas Baptist College in the fall, said she learned about the college’s music programs at a conference. She said in a previous visit to the campus everyone she met was “on fire for Jesus” and full of “joy for Jesus” which set the institution apart from other campuses she toured.

Miller said she was “excited” to meet her community, be a part of the music program, and “build my own family here.”

Teri McMillian and her family attended Preview Day so she could learn more about the Master of Arts in Christian Education degree program. The New Orleans native said she was “looking for a way to do a mentoring with a church and get boots on the ground” as she seeks to fulfill God’s calling in the areas of mentoring and leadership.

More information about how to apply to Southwestern Seminary can be found here.

More information about the fall 2022 course offerings can be found here.