23,000 teens sound a battlecry
SAN FRANCISCO (BP)--The city turned off the sound system, but it couldn’t turn off the celebration. Nearly 23,000 teens and their youth leaders filled AT&T Park in San Francisco with shouts of “Jesus” and “Hallelujah” Saturday morning accompanied only by hand-held radios scattered among the seats. Prohibited by the city of [QUOTE@left@155="(The city's restrictions are) just the sign of the times. Our youth are getting a wakeup call, and I praise God for it."]San Francisco from using the stadium’s sound system until 10 a.m., organizers of “BattleCry” enlisted the broadcasting capabilities of local Christian radio station KFAX, urged the teenagers and their leaders to bring their radios and pressed on with a 9 a.m. worship service at the home of the San Francisco Giants. BattleCry, a stadium event held by the evangelical Christian organization Teen Mania, had visited San Francisco last March and been met by scores of protesters in the city who were offended by what they termed the “anti-gay” thrust of the event. The weekend event began with a mid-afternoon rally Friday in front of City Hall, where most of the interaction between the Christian teenagers and the city protesters took place.
Golden Gate to offer Ph.D. in Old & New Testament
MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)--Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary will offer a doctor of philosophy program beginning this fall.
Golden Gate housing renovation receives $200,000 boost
MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)—With the sky-high cost of living in the San Francisco area, a $200,000 gift for refurbishing student housing at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary’s Northern California campus is a welcome boost for affordable on-campus student housing.
‘Irrepressible’ 80-year-old earns doctorate from Golden Gate
MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)--Eighty-year-old James Austin Williams Jr. was one of 60 students who received degrees from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary at the winter 2006 commencement ceremony.
Golden Gate sends out 60 new graduates to share Jesus
MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)--Sixty students received degrees at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary’s winter commencement at First Baptist Church in San Francisco Dec. 15.
‘Intersect ‘06’ helps students share Gospel across cultures
MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)--Just as the Christian faith intersects the language, location and cultures of people wherever they are, Christians are called to intersect with people -- wherever and whoever they are -- in the same manner as Jesus.
Golden Gate Seminary grads pioneer ministry in Sudan
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| Peter Swann (center) speaks with villagers Alfred and David talk in southwest Sudan. Peter spent much of his time in the region learning two tribal languages and teaching Bible stories to the men of the village.Photo courtesy of Golden Gate Seminary/I> |
In the movies, missionaries live in mud huts among isolated tribes deep in the bush of Africa or South America with no other fair-skinned or English-speaking people, no electricity, no plumbing and no contact with the outside world for months at a time.
Peter Swann doesn’t hesitate to say it: “It looked just like it does in the movies. It was like stepping back in time a couple of thousand years.”
Golden Gate trustees meet at Rocky Mountain campus
DENVER (BP)--Trustees of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary held their fall meeting at the seminary’s Rocky Mountain campus near Denver, which had just celebrated its 10th anniversary.
Bay area Baptist association emphasizes church planting
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (BP)--At each stage of her ministry in San Rafael, Calif., Marian Engelland recounted, “God has provided people with other gifts when we were lacking.”
Baptists rejecting modernism, historian tells Golden Gate
MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)--Baptists in America and England are in the midst of a move from a “wholesale adoption of modernity” to a turning away from modernism, Baptist historian William Brackney told students at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary during the annual Deere Lecture Series.
