Southern Baptist seminaries will host their annual luncheons during the Southern Baptist Convention in Phoenix, Ariz.
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary will posthumously honor Baptist hospital workers William Koehn and Martha Myers, who were killed in Yemen last December, as Honorary Alumni of the Year.
Koehn attended the Kansas City, Mo., seminary in 1974 and Myers attended in 1977. Both were longtime workers at the Baptist hospital in Jibla, Yemen, when they and a coworker were killed by a lone gunman.
Midwestern’s luncheon will be June 18 in the Hyatt Regency Hotel’s Curtis A/B Room on level 2.
The work of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary’s Phoenix campus will be highlighted during the seminary’s June 18 Alumni and Friends Luncheon.
Seminary President William O. Crews will be the featured speaker, and this year’s Distinguished Alumni Award recipient will be announced.
The noon luncheon will be held in the Phoenix Civic Plaza’s Tucson Room 36/37/38.
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Kenneth S. Hemphill will host the seminary’s National Alumni Luncheon at 11 a.m. June 18 in the Hyatt Regency Hotel ballroom sections C/D.
Hemphill, who recently announced his retirement from the Fort Worth, Texas, seminary, will present the seminary’s 2003 distinguished alumni awards and the seminary’s annual report.
Hemphill, who has led Southwestern since 1994, has been named as the national strategist for the Southern Baptist Convention’s Empowering Kingdom Growth initiative.
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary will hold its luncheon for alumni and friends at 12:30 p.m. June 18 at the Wyndham Hotel (formerly Crowne plaza), Grand Ballroom North on level 3. Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. will be among the speakers. The luncheon will take place in the hotel’s grand ballroom.
Paige Patterson, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, will address the annual alumni and friends luncheon at noon June 18, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Ballroom East/West on level two. The seminary’s annual Distinguished Alumnus Award will be presented during the luncheon.
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary’s annual Alumni & Friends Reunion will be at noon June 18 in the Pueblo Room of the Wyndham Hotel (formerly Crowne Plaza), two blocks from the Civic Plaza.
The meeting will include a special report from NOBTS president Chuck Kelley on the seminary’s ongoing transformation through its New Horizons Campaign as well as the faculty’s annual presentation of the distinguished alumni awards.
Tickets for luncheons may be picked up at their booths in the SBC exhibit hall.
(BP)
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