Tammi Ledbetter

JEFFERSON, S.D. (BP)–Three Southern Baptist congregations in a predominantly Catholic area of South Dakota received a helping hand from eight teenagers and four adults from a new church start in Kansas City, Mo., carrying out its commitment to “a high level of missions support, involvement and training” when it formulated its purpose statement a little […]

ATLANTA (BP)–Believing that “every single human being in the world responds to love at some point,” Southern Baptist Convention President Paige Patterson drove home his vision for taking the gospel message to the inner cities of America during a news conference June 15 following his re-election by acclamation. “Let’s learn to love everybody and get […]

ATLANTA (BP)–Southern Baptist Convention President Paige Patterson was re-elected by acclamation June 15 during the SBC annual meeting, while, also by acclamation, Frank Cox, senior pastor of North Metro First Baptist Church in suburban Atlanta, was elected first vice president. For second vice president, Jerry Spencer, pastor of Ridgecrest Baptist Church, Dothan, Ala., defeated Paul […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–The Southern Baptist Convention has become a target of anti-homosexual agitator Fred Phelps for failing to condemn churches Phelps identifies as “openly and notoriously promoting the modern militant homosexual movement” in America. Phelps pastors Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., which is not aligned with a denomination, and stages public protests throughout the […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–The campus operations director of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary offered “a view from the pew” to students preparing to serve as ministers during a March 18 chapel service. Don Hamlin encouraged ministers to share their testimonies often and motivate members to be involved in missions so that others might receive Christ as […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–Be prepared to take your shoes off when you step into the chapel of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. When several seminary administrators and faculty members traveled to North Africa and the Middle East last year, they were awed by the mosques which provided an atmosphere for prayer. Though the local worshipers gathered […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–Raised in northern Arkansas in a family of seven brothers and sisters as the son of a champion coon hunter, Jim Hefley loves to tell tales of life in the Ozarks. Though he is best known among Southern Baptists for offering a historical account of the conservative resurgence, Hefley has traveled the […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–The closing words from the life of King David provide Christians with an example in building a legacy worth remembering, stated Gary Smith, professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Mo. “What will people say about you when you die? What will the obituary say?” […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–A new 1,500-seat assembly hall for Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary will serve as phase one of a campus plan approved earlier by trustees. The multipurpose building emerged as the priority item during discussion at the Oct. 19-20 board meeting in Kansas City, Mo. “With an assembly hall, we would no longer need […]

With a vision for the “prairie fire” of spiritual awakening, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is preparing God-called men and women to reach the Heartland of America and the world with the gospel. To better accomplish that task, the Seminary has redesigned its curriculum, attracted a host of new faculty, and proposed a new megastructure to […]