Pastor, family grow in the rich, fertile soil of the valley
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – Hard times often are described as “going through a valley.” But Bruce Watson, pastor of First Baptist Jeanerette, La., describes life’s valleys as the place where the soil is the richest.
NOBTS Hispanic conference draws 800 attendees, yields salvations
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – The “Abre Mis Ojos” conference, Spanish for “open my eyes,” yielded salvations as more than 800 guests from the Hispanic community gathered at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary for the second annual event, September 15-16.
NOBTS students sow Gospel seeds in Asia
The New Orleans church planter had never been so intimidated to share his faith. As he walked the streets in Asia, he knew the cost of evangelizing in the country he was visiting. It might mean he’d be kicked out of the country. For the man sitting on the bench beside him, looking at John 3:16 on his phone with James Thomas, it could mean imprisonment.
FROM THE SEMINARIES: Convocations at NOBTS, SEBTS
NOBTS’ Landrum Leavell Dining Hall dedication opens new year; Akin calls students to step out in obedience to the Great Commission.
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.
91-year-old receives NOBTS diploma 66 years late
DECATUR, Ala. (BP) -- Last Friday night, Mary Glenn Ingouf, 91, “crossed the graduation stage” in her retirement home apartment in Decatur without a cap and gown or “Pomp and Circumstance.” But for Ingouf, receiving the diploma was as memorable as it was long in coming.
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.
Global Missions Center at NOBTS strengthens IMB partnership, provides service opportunities
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – Students at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary have greater access to opportunities to reach the nations through the newly renovated Global Missions Center. The center is housed in the Fred Luter, Jr. Student Center at NOBTS and Leavell College, recently named in honor of the prominent pastor and first African American president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
SBC DIGEST: Dew, Akin report to messengers
Theological education 'matters now more than ever,' Dew tells messengers; Akin celebrates Great Commission stories in SEBTS report.
