NOBTS opens space for New Orleans Police Department recruitment event
NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- The Fred Luter Jr. Student Center at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary is often the site of student enlistment events but this week, a different kind of recruitment took place. New Orleans Police Department personnel were on site to greet community members interested in joining the force.
The world through the counselor’s open door
NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Imagine stepping into another country where dozens of worldviews and cultures co-mingle, and sometimes clash.
Evangelism on aisle 5: Seminary professor becomes ‘pastor’ of store next door
NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Mark Johnson, assistant professor of evangelism and pastoral ministry at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, goes to the busy, franchised grocery store next door to the seminary every day. On purpose.
Fred Luter, Jr. Student Center dedicated to honor legacy as ‘trailblazer’
NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- More than 4,000 friends and dignitaries gathered in front of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College June 14 to celebrate the dedication of the Fred Luter Jr. Student Center and the presentation of a state resolution and local proclamations honoring “the pastor of New Orleans.”
NOBTS’ sold-out Abide conference inspires women to live ‘missionally’
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – The voices of 1,200 women from 15 states and 250 churches – a sold-out crowd – filled the chapel at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary as they gathered to praise, learn and fellowship at the Abide Women’s Conference, Feb. 3-4.
Dew reminds graduates ‘no greater need’ than now
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – Jamie Dew, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College president, spoke with urgency at graduation Dec. 9, charging candidates to remember the task to which God had called them.
Luter honored at NOBTS for 35 years of ministry, influence
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – Fred Luter, pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, was honored by New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College Tuesday (Oct. 12), with the announcement that a commemorative brick paver would be placed in his honor in the seminary’s Legacy Plaza reading “Fred Luter, the pastor of New Orleans.”
NOBTS student’s life touched thousands despite disabilities
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – David Sneed, 65, was plagued by lifelong disabilities and health issues. The New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary doctor of ministry student once said he hoped to die in the pulpit, preaching. Those who knew him best say he did exactly that, because his life was a living sermon.
Dew calls NOBTS, Leavell College grads to heed the Lord’s prayer as model for life
NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Jamie Dew, president of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College, charged Spring 2021 graduates to look to the Lord’s Prayer not only as a model for prayer but as a model for a life committed to Christ.
NOBTS-Leavell College graduates honored with video, virtual reception
Though NOBTS' Leavell Chapel was empty and the graduation stage dark May 15, graduates were celebrated with a video and an online, interactive graduation reception.
