By Timothy Cockes on Tuesday, April 29, 2025

The Caskey Center at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary hosted their annual pastors' conference April 25-26 featuring guest speakers Jeff Iorg, President and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee and Sam Greer, senior pastor of Red Bank Baptist Church (Tenn.). Iorg spoke to more than 250 pastors and pastors’...

By Timothy Cockes on Monday, April 21, 2025

The board of trustees for New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College heard a of variety of positive reports and approved new faculty and curriculum updates during their spring meeting April 15-16. Jamie Dew, president of...

By Timothy Cockes on Wednesday, April 16, 2025

If someone were to walk through the doors of St. Bernard Baptist Church in Chalmette, La., it would be completely unrecognizable from what it looked like just two years ago. At that time, the church had an average attendance of about six people on a typical Sunday. Since then,...

By Timothy Cockes on Monday, March 31, 2025

Missions Week at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary emphasized the need and the opportunity for students to reach the nations with the Gospel. Taking place March 24 – 28, the week featured a variety of guest speakers and events all focused on the importance of fulfilling the Great Commission,...

By Timothy Cockes on Friday, March 14, 2025

Chuck Kelley, president emeritus of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College, spoke about his journey of grief after losing his beloved wife Rhonda in his first chapel message since his retirement. Kelley’s chapel address on Thursday (March 13) marks more than a year since the passing of...

By Timothy Cockes on Thursday, March 13, 2025

New Orleans Seminary’s Caskey Center for Church Excellence is celebrating the milestone of 10,000 professions of faith as the result of more than 10 years of student evangelism efforts. Caskey Center students have carried out weekly evangelism efforts since the Center’s launch in 2014. As of March 3, students...

By Timothy Cockes on Friday, March 7, 2025

New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary family gathered for a chapel service March 6 honoring and celebrating faculty member Mark Johnson for his appointment as the 10th president of Louisiana Christian University. Johnson, assistant professor of evangelism and pastoral ministry and director of the seminary’s Doctor of Ministry program, was...

By Timothy Cockes on Wednesday, February 26, 2025

NOBTS faculty member Mark Johnson has been named the 10th president of Louisiana Christian University (LCU). Johnson, who serves as assistant professor of evangelism and pastoral ministry and director of the seminary’s Doctor of Ministry program, was announced as LCU’s new president on Tuesday, Feb. 25. The LCU...