FORT WORTH, Texas — Trustees at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary approved the president’s recommendation to adopt a new name for the seminary’s education school during their fall 2009 trustee meeting Oct. 21.
The school of educational ministries, one of Southwestern’s six schools, was renamed the Jack D. Terry Jr. School of Church and Family Ministries, effective immediately.
President Paige Patterson said that changing the school’s name to the Terry School of Church and Family Ministries will encourage a family-oriented approach to ministry.
“We train leaders for all types of local church ministries, and our emphasis on the primacy of the home in its relationship to the local church is central to all we do,” said Waylan Owens, dean of the Terry School of Church and Family Ministries.
Jack Terry currently serves as vice president emeritus and special assistant to the president as well as professor of foundations of education at Southwestern.
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