News Articles by Phyllis Evans

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–“Is a Spirit-filled seminary possible?” Jeff Iorg, president of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, asked during the spring academic convocation at the seminary’s Mill Valley, Calif., campus. “Golden Gate Seminary is an academic institution, and the primary emphasis of our instructional strategy for shaping leaders is shaping their intellects,” Iorg said. He […]

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–Jerry Rankin, president emeritus of the International Mission Board, told 175 people attending Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary’s 50th annual Missions Conference to beware of an enemy of the Gospel. “We have an enemy that is dead set in defeating us in our Christian life. This enemy attempts to influence us to […]

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)--Bobby Welch took "a worldwide trip and never left America -- in fact did not even have to leave San Francisco, Calif."

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–A pilot who has flown three U.S. presidents in Air Force One was among 88 graduates at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary’s winter commencement ceremony at First Baptist Church in San Francisco. The graduates, representing 17 states and eight countries, received diplomas, master’s and doctoral degrees. The seminary conferred 50 diplomas in […]

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–Morgan Patterson, retired dean of academic affairs at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, died of cancer at his home Nov. 19. He was 85. Patterson served at Golden Gate from 1976-84 and arranged for the donation of his extensive library collection of church history and related material to the seminary upon his […]

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–Trustees of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary celebrated the 15th anniversary of the seminary’s Arizona campus and received progress reports and dealt with routine business during their fall meeting in Mill Valley, Calif. Ninety-one students have graduated since the Arizona campus opened in Phoenix in 1995. “We are grateful for our partnership […]

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–What will be on your tombstone? asked Frank Page, president-elect of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, speaking at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary’s Northern California in Mill Valley. Page, in his first speaking engagement at a Southern Baptist seminary since his election in June, told the story of how Louis Pasteur […]

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)—If, in the San Francisco Bay area, you spot a Coast Guard helicopter, the pilot helping keep the skies safe might be Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary student Ryan Hawn.

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)–Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary’s Southern California campus now is offering student housing in partnership with a Christian university in Orange County. “We are pleased that our Southern California campus is able to provide residence accommodations beginning with the fall 2010 semester,” Jeff Iorg, the seminary’s president, said. “In response to numerous […]

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)--Jessie Reed was incarcerated in 1985, when he was 23 years old, for committing a homicide. After 24 years as an inmate, he celebrated his one-year parole anniversary in June.