2003 Archives
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patterson_enrollment_63003
Posted: 6/27/03
Enrollment trends at Southwestern Seminary
Academic Year FTE Enrollment Total Students 1977-1978 3,279 4,136 Robert Naylor's last year 1978-1979 3,275 4,154 Russell Dilday's first year 06/27/2003 - By John Rutledge
together_63003
Posted: 6/27/03
TOGETHER:
Numbers paint picture of missionsSummer brings a change of pace for most of us. Family vacations are most often planned for this time of the year. Churches take on a different dynamic, too, as the sounds of children and youth can be heard throughout the week. Camp programs, Vacation Bible Schools, summer mission trips, Super Summer youth evangelism conferences, recreational activities and local community mission involvement all contribute to the “hum” around the church house.
That hum goes on statewide, as well. Rosemary and I, along with scores of Baptist General Convention of Texas staff, attended the annual meeting of the Hispanic Baptist Convention June 22-24. In a few days, the African-American Baptist Fellowship will convene in Houston, July 8-11. What I love about these meetings is the way entire families show up. There are activities for children and young people. And the adults celebrate and rejoice in the achievements of their children and grandchildren.
CHARLES WADE
Executive Director
BGCT Executive Board
It is the stated goal of the BGCT to “reach all people.” We want, as a pastor in the Valley expressed, our churches and convention to look like the face of Texas. We want Hispanics, African-Americans, Asian-Americans and anyone else to feel as much at home in the BGCT as do Anglo-Americans. And if we are to do that effectively, we must encourage one another, and in order to do that, we must know one another.
06/27/2003 - By John Rutledge
truett_grads_63003
Posted: 6/27/03
Members of the 2003 class of Truett Theological Seminary pose in the seminary's Powell Chapel. Truett Seminary to produce 79 graduates in 2003
WACO–Baylor University's Truett Theological Seminary honored 79 members of the class of 2003, including 35 spring graduates, during baccalaureate ceremonies.
Bill Sherman, pastor of First Baptist Church of Fairview, Tenn., delivered the baccalaureate address on “The Compulsion of the Cross.” Sherman told the graduates, “The Christ of the cross compels us to believe and to believe strongly, … to act and to act greatly, … to love and love supremely … and to praise and praise gloriously.”
Sherman admonished the seminarians, using the words of British World War I chaplain G.A. Studdert-Kennedy, to “serve in such a way that you will hear God as you stand before him in eternity say, 'Well done' rather than, 'Well!'”
06/27/2003 - By John Rutledge
Jami Demel to Saint Paul's Church in Schulenberg as youth director. 
