News Articles by Mark A. Wyatt

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary soon will be debt-free following action by the seminary’s board of trustees at their regular fall meeting Oct. 12 in Mill Valley, Calif. Trustees agreed to use proceeds from property sales to retire bonds on the Southern California campus building in Brea. The action sets a limit […]

FRESNO, Calif. (BP)–Support from the larger Christian community was evident Oct. 3 as members of First Southern Baptist Church in Fresno began coming to terms with a fatal shooting at the church several days earlier. Virgil Turner, 44, was fatally shot Sept. 29 while helping prepare the Wednesday evening fellowship meal at First Southern Baptist […]

FRESNO, Calif. (BP)–A well-liked church member was fatally shot Sept. 29 while helping with a Wednesday evening fellowship meal at First Southern Baptist Church, Fresno, Calif. Another church member was taken into custody several hours later in connection with the killing. Virgil Turner, 44, died of multiple gunshot wounds. Witnesses said Turner was helping in […]

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–Trustees of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary reaffirmed support for Baptist Faith and Message confessional statement and the institution’s allegiance to the Southern Baptist Convention during their regular spring meeting April 13 in Mill Valley, Calif. Trustees approved several revisions to key governing documents that strengthen the institution’s Southern Baptist identity. One […]

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–Trustees of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary have approved budget guidelines to help the institution begin the next century with a third consecutive year of deficit-free operations. Meeting at the seminary’s main campus in Mill Valley, Calif., April 13, trustees also heard a report on plans to offer one of the seminary’s […]

OXNARD, Calif. (BP)–A plan to “regionalize” the way the California Southern Baptist Convention provides services to churches will continue after messengers defeated several attempts to derail the plan during the convention’s 58th annual session Nov. 10-11 at the Performing Arts Center in Oxnard, Calif.Messengers also re-elected three top officers, voted to do away with convention […]

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–Trustees of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary took steps to strengthen a mixed financial situation and elected the first Hispanic professor of biblical studies ever hired by a Southern Baptist seminary during their fall meeting Oct. 12-13 in Mill Valley, Calif. President William O. “Bill” Crews said increased enrollment and strong Cooperative […]

FRESNO, Calif. (BP)–Michael B. McCullough, a 16-year employee of the Nevada Baptist Convention, will become the associate executive director of California Southern Baptist Convention effective June 1. He succeeds Wendell J. Foss, a 35-year CSBC employee, who retired last September. Members of the California Southern Baptist Convention executive board elected McCullough at their regular meeting […]

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–Training ministers for effective worship leadership is the focus of a new degree program approved by trustees of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary at their regular spring meeting April 21. Trustees also gave the green light to another new master’s degree and approved a record $7.4 million budget for the 1998-99 fiscal […]

VANCOUVER, Wash. (BP)–Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary could become the first school in the nation to offer a master of theology degree via the Internet under plans approved by seminary trustees Oct. 14. In a related action, trustees re-designated nearly $1 million in capital improvement funds from 1995-96 and 1996-97 Cooperative Program gifts to pay […]