The purpose of the Jack D. Terry School of Educational Ministries is to provide graduate biblical education to God-called Great Commission ministers who teach, lead, disciple, and biblically counsel with excellence. The degrees and courses offered through the Terry School reflect a commitment to the educational priorities of teaching excellence, competency-shaped curriculum, local church partnerships, global focus, and life transforming education.
Colossians 2:6-10 states our goals for our students and for those they teach, lead, disciple, and counsel. “As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.”
We are committed to equipping great commission ministers who teach, lead, disciple, and biblically counsel with excellence.
It is true that “the faculty is the curriculum”. So choosing a school means you are intentionally choosing the professors with whom you will study. In the Terry School, our faculty is marked by their knowledge, experience, and scholarship. Equally important is the constant refrain among the Terry School professors—“the best teaching occurs in the context of relationships”. This belief results in a strong relational community among professors and students, which makes all the difference in your seminary experience.
We have the rich heritage of being the oldest and most highly regarded school of educational ministries for more than 100 years. Southwestern Seminary began in 1908, and in 1915 the department of religious education was established. And then in 1921, the school we now know as the Jack D. Terry School of Educational Ministries was begun by the founding dean, J.M. Price. This means that when you choose the Terry School you are becoming the next in line in a long lineage of well-equipped great commission ministers who will serve Christ’s church with excellence.
Dean of the Jack D. Terry School of Educational Ministries; Professor of Educational Ministries; Jack D. and Barbara Terry Chair of Religious Education
These degrees include strong biblical and theological foundations, great commission studies, and educational ministry concentrations including: Biblical Counseling, Children and Family Ministry, Christian Leadership, Discipleship and Teaching, Student and Family Ministry, Women’s Ministry, and Women’s Studies.
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is partnering with D6 Family Ministry to become the named sponsor of the D6 Family Ministry Journal.
The Southwestern D6 Family Ministry Journal publishes scholarly research articles for professors and students who are committed to the development of the next generation of Christian ministers and community leaders, as well as those who are already serving in local church and parachurch settings. The journal seeks to provide rigorous and scholarly thinking through articles and essays that reflect on God’s use of generational, primarily paternal and maternal, influences in the lives of children as evidenced in Scripture while simultaneously exploring the integration and application of the relationship between the church and home. Additionally, readers will find book reviews on the latest family ministry and discipleship categories. Articles and essays reflect content that supports the teaching of generational approaches for ministry leaders to equip parents at church and home, as well as championing methodologies and cultures of Christian education at colleges and seminaries that prepare and retain children and young adults in the development of a Christian lifestyle and Christian leadership skills.
Wherever God calls you, the School of Educational Ministries will equip you to serve biblically and effectively.
