Cindy Kerr

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–The smell of sawdust. The cool breeze rustling the heat of the day into the night air as it tousles the corners of an enormous canvas tent. Hymns drifting from horns or keyboards. The words, “If you met Jesus tonight …” haunting the lost and comforting the homesick. An old-fashioned tent revival, […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–They traveled coast to coast, across the border, up peaks, down mountains and through mesas. They crossed cultures, time zones and ravines of their own inadequacies. They used everything from basketball to preaching, from praying to skiing, from observation to hands-on ministry, all with the same goal –share the saving message of […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–As the only snapshot of Jesus some people will ever see, Christian photojournalists need to realize their ministry is much more than capturing an image on film, speakers at the Southwestern Photojournalism Conference reminded participating photographers. “Every single assignment we get is a two-part assignment,” Hillery Smith Garrison said during the conference […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–Come sit near the warm oven in the cobbled classroom of the Black Cloister, and hunch forward to grasp every word flying from Martin Luther’s lips. March through the muddy, bloody battlefields beside Ulrich Zwingli. Crouch under Jonathan Edwards’ extended finger as he dangles your mind over imagery prone more to hell […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–When an international seminary student on a limited income couldn’t support her church’s building program financially, she decided to voice her support instead. And Anita Thomas’ prayer is that her voice recorded on her debut album, “Reality,” will allow her to give to her church’s program financial, rather than just vocal, support. […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–World missions is insignificant to most Christians because they are reading only half of the Bible, Bob Sjogren told 300 students at Mpact 99, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s annual student missions conference Feb. 26-28. “To the average person on the pew, missions are a joke,” Sjogren said. “The average Christian can think […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–Brisk Texas winds whisk cold ashes and flutter yellow police tape stretched across the lot where the Precious Faith Temple once stood in a Fort Worth, Texas, suburb. Little seems secure after a Feb. 15 church fire when two would-be daddies, both outstanding Christian men, and a young volunteer lost their lives […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–She doesn’t spend her days on the docks baiting hooks and casting line, but KayLyn McGowan, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s missionary-in-residence through spring 1999, knows something about fishing. “There is a tribe that catches fish with their hands instead of poles or nets,” she said. “They lean into the water, stick their […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–Christians must reach the world for Christ on their knees, heads raised and eyes looking out to the fields ready for harvest, according to the International Mission Board’s international prayer strategy office director who spoke at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Dec. 2. Randy Sprinkle told the audience of missionary to China Jonathon […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–With the intent of sending out husband-wife ministry teams, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is providing opportunities for the wives of seminary students to prepare to fulfill their roles as a partner in ministry. “We are constantly trying to emphasize the fact that the husband and wife are one,” said Bill Marshall, associate […]