Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary’s northern California campus in Mill Valley celebrated 50 years on Strawberry Point with homecoming festivities attended by 120 alumni and their families.
Highlights included opening a time capsule from 1959, a reception at the president’s home, a tour of the previous campus in Berkeley, a founders’ dinner and this year’s spring commencement during which the seminary’s “Golden Graduates” were honored.
Twenty-eight of those who graduated from the Berkeley campus from 1949 until 1959 donned golden robes and walked with the class of 2009.
Golden Gate Seminary opened the doors to its northern California campus in 1959 after six years of planning and construction.
The 148 acres of former dairy land called Strawberry Point became home to the first Southern Baptist seminary in the West, and today the fully accredited five-campus system has become the 10th-largest seminary in the United States and the second largest in the West.
“This place declares the glory of God to all the nations,” Jeff Iorg, the seminary’s president, said as he stood with the opened time capsule.
“Is there another explanation for the seminary’s success other than God’s power and glory?” (BP)
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