Lutheran Seminary starts Baptist study program

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary is launching a study program specifically designed for Baptist students in South Carolina. Classes in the new program, directed by Virginia Barfield, will begin in the fall.

Officials from the Columbia-based seminary and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of South Carolina, along with other Baptist leaders, signed a formal agreement Feb. 12.

Barfield, who holds a master’s degree from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., and a doctorate from Duke University, left the ministerial staff of Kathwood Baptist Church in Columbia to develop the Baptist Studies Program.