Hard times often are described as “going through a valley.” But Bruce Watson, pastor of First Baptist Jeanerette, Louisiana, describes life’s valleys as the place where the soil is the richest. “It’s not until you get in the valley where the dirt of life is, where the thorns and thistles are,...
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. The conference was developed as an intentional way for NOBTS to engage the Hispanic community. “I love...
Moving the gospel forward in a day of far-reaching cultural confusion might begin with a clear understanding of what it means to be created in God’s image. This is the premise of a new book “Created in the Image of God: Applications and Implications for our Cultural Confusion” that...
Convocation at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, August 15, opened the new academic year, honored faculty anniversaries, and this year, included the ribbon-cutting and dedication of the Landrum Leavell Dining Hall in the heart of the seminary campus. Leavell family members were present for the dedication that marked the reopening of...
Mary Glenn Ingouf, 91, “crossed the graduation stage” in her retirement home apartment in Decatur, Alabama recently but did so without a cap and gown or Pomp and Circumstance. For Ingouf, receiving the diploma was as memorable as it was long in coming. Jamie Dew, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary president,...
A “cup of instant coffee in a hut” was the start to Austin and Megan Holcomb’s romance in West Africa a few short years ago, but oh the places they have been since. From West Africa to a pastorate in East Texas, to East Africa and now in New Orleans, the...
God’s call drew Noah (MDiv ‘19) and Tarin (MAMFC ‘19) Madden to Massachusetts in 2020 to plant a church, and three years later, God's call and His faithfulness sustains them. “God has been incredibly faithful. We are here because God, in His radical grace, called us and is sustaining us,” Noah...
Jamie Dew, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College president, greeted messengers at the 2023 SBC annual meeting in New Orleans by expressing how glad he was Southern Baptists had come to New Orleans and how “delightful” it had been to host them. Noting the uniqueness of the city, Dew...
