— Women’s Programs —
Pendergraph Women’s Ministry
• • • • •The Pendergraph Women’s Ministry came into existence because of the need for fellowship and sharing of common concerns among wives of seminary students. The widow of former Southern Seminary student Dr. G. R. Pendergraph gave an endowment in 1984 to meet what she remembered during her years as a Southern Seminary student’s wife, to be a pressing need. As a result of her initiative, in April of 1985 a combination Bible study and support group formed and met with great success.
This offered a model for the original seminary wives fellowship. In 1995 the focus was changed to allow wives and female students to be a part of this ministry. As God has continued to bless The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the ministry had branched out to include all women who are a part of the seminary community. Thus, we are honored to bear the name Pendergraph Women’s Ministry.
Childcare Statement
It is our desire that no one be unable to attend Pendergraph due to lack of childcare arrangements. Therefore, we strongly encourage husbands to take care of the children at home whenever possible to allow space for those who have no other option.
Please call (502) 897-4217 to make childcare reservations no earlier than two weeks prior to the event and no later than the Thursday before. Childcare is $1 per child.
Pendergraph Women’s Ministry Calendar 2009-2010
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For more information, please contact:
Email: pendergraph@sbts.edu
Truth. Legacy. Vision. Southern Seminary Sesquicentennial
Announcements
RSS- Fall Gheens Lectures 2010
Hunter Baker will deliver the fall 2010 Gheens Lectures, “The System Has a Soul: Lectures on Christianity and Secularism,” in Heritage Hall Sept. 14-15. Baker is senior associate dean for the College of Arts and Sciences and associate professor of political science at Union University. He has written for numerous popular and scholarly publications, and has worked for the Rutherford Institute, Prison Fellowship Ministries and the Georgia Family Council. The first 100 students to arrive for Baker’s first lecture at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 14, will receive a complimentary copy of his book The End of Secularism (Crossway, 2009). The Gheens Lectureship schedule is as follows:
Tuesday Sept. 14
1:00 p.m. Lecture 1, “Freedom, Democracy, and Secularism?”
2:30 p.m. Lecture 2, “Decline, Fall, and the Options”Wednesday Sept. 15
10:00 a.m. Lecture 3, “Secularism, Church, and Society”
- Forum with author David Helm
Join pastor and author David Helm Tuesday Sept. 7, at 7pm in Heritage Hall for a special forum on “How to Teach Your Children the Whole Story of the Bible.” Helm is the author of The Big Picture Story Bible, a pastor at Holy Trinity Church in Chicago, and executive director of the Charles Simeon Trust. Complimentary childcare is available on a limited first come-first serve basis. To register for childcare, please email HRC@sbts.edu.
- SBTS anticipates fall festival
Southern Seminary encourages its faculty, staff and students to attend Southern’s sixth annual Fall Festival, Sept. 10 from 6 - 9 p.m. All food and activities are free of charge.
This year’s festival will celebrate Kentucky life, exploring three unique themed areas: Kentucky State Fair, Frontier Land and Fort Knox.Kentucky State Fair will feature carnival rides and games, inflatables, a Ferris wheel and traditional fair food, including popcorn, cotton candy and nachos. Fort Knox will host inflatables provided by the Mobile Event Team from the Kentucky National Guard and offer MRE’s, military meals ready to eat. Frontier Land food will include burgoo, a traditional Kentucky chili-like stew served alongside cornbread, and watermelon.
- Students Earn Course Credit During REFO500 Conference
SBTS students can earn course credit by attending the REFO500 conference. Students should enroll in Studies in Theology: Reformation Theology and Piety with Dr. Michael Haykin, an intensive study of the Reformation in Germany, Switzerland, France and England. Each enrolled student must attend the eight class lectures on Friday, September 24, and Monday, September 27, and the entire Conference: Refo500: Challenges and Opportunities between Now and 2017. Contact Academic Records at 502-897-4209 or academicrecords@sbts.edu.
Blogs
RSS- God, the Gospel, and Glenn Beck
- by – Aug 30
A Mormon television star stands in front of the Lincoln Memorial and calls American Christians to revival. He assembles some evangelical celebrities to give testimonies, and then preaches a God and country revivalism that leaves the evangelicals cheering that they’ve heard the gospel, right there in the nation’s capital. The news media pronounces him the new leader of America’s Christian conservative movement, and a flock of America’s Christian conservatives have no problem with that.
- Never Having to Say You’re Dead? The New Interest in Reincarnation
- by – Aug 30
Dr. Paul DeBell believes that he was once a caveman. Not only that, he is fairly certain that his life as a caveman ended violently. “I was going along, going along, going along, and I got eaten,” said the psychiatrist.
To his life as a caveman, Dr. DeBell adds his knowledge of previous lives as a Tibetan monk and “a conscientious German who refused to betray his Jewish neighbors in the Holocaust.” Dr. DeBell’s account is found in “Remembrances of Lives Past” by Lisa Miller of Newsweek magazine, published in the August 29, 2010 edition of The New York Times. Miller writes of the growing acceptance of the idea of reincarnation among Americans.
- ‘Prettifying’ Darwin — A Timely Look at a Losing Strategy
- by – Aug 27
The American literary critic Frederick Crews once spoke of defenders of evolutionary theory who attempt to make Darwinism appear more congenial to the Christian faith than it truly is. These defenders, Crews wrote, present a vision of Darwin and Darwinism that “is often prettified to make it safe for doctrines that he himself was sadly compelled to leave behind.” The prettifying of evolution continues, even in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
- Is Your Doctor a Believer?
- by – Aug 27
Is your doctor a believer? If not, a new study suggests that the care he is giving you may be inferior to that of believing doctors. The study appears in the Journal of Medical Ethics, and in it Dr. Clive Seale surveys more than 3,700 British doctors, of whom 2,923 reported on how they took care of their last terminally ill patient. In short, “Doctors who are atheist or agnostic are twice as likely to make decisions that could end the lives of their terminally ill patients, compared to doctors who are very religious” (AP report).