Ballenger named to seminary position

RICHMOND, Va. — A veteran missions educator and administrator became acting faculty dean at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond on June 1.

Isam Ballenger fills a post vacated by Thomas Halbrooks. Halbrooks resigned to become president of Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Crozer Theological Seminary in Rochester, N.Y., July 1. Halbrooks, 59, joined the Virginia seminary in 1991 and has been its only dean and professor of church history.

Ballenger, 64, will act as dean for an indefinite period while the seminary seeks administrative and faculty replacements, said President Thomas Graces. Ballenger will also continue as Duke K. McCall professor of missions and world Christianity. Ballenger jointed BTSR in 1992 after he retired early to end his career as a missionary and administrator with the Southern Baptist Foreign (now International) Mission Board.