Retired missionary and director of the Macedonian Call Foundation, Harvey Kneisel, stands with his wife, Charlene, outside their Houston home. The Kneisels have helped provide transportation for missionaries on furlough for 32 years.

SBTC President Terry Turner

“Embracing the Ends of the Earth” book

Criswell President Jerry Johnson presents the honorary doctor of divinity degree to Fred Luter of New Orleans during the school’s 37th commencement. Luter, longtime New Orleans pastor and nominee for SBC president, offered the commencement address. Photo provided

The classrooms of Southern Baptist seminaries provide a model for diversity with students representing most every ethnic background, numerous children of missionaries who grew up in another culture, and a fair number of professors who studied overseas or immigrated from another country.

Joel Engle, pastor of The Exchange Church in Keller, makes a point during his sermon pleading with believers to guard their hearts to avoid drifting from God as King David did. Photo by Jerry Pierce

The 2012 Pastors’ Conference, June 17-18 in New Orleans, is themed “Changing: Lives, Communities, the World.”

SBTC President Terry Turner of Mesquite Friendship Baptist Church leads the SBTC Executive Board in prayer for President Obama and national leaders during the board's spring meeting on April 24 in Irving. Turner urged a movement of prayer for the president and Congress and taking the "high road" in the current political climate.

SBTC board chairman Hal Kinkeade (right) introduces Heath Peloquin and his wife Jennifer prior to his election as ministry associate in the minister-church relations department. Peloquin most recently served as a pastor in Corpus Christi.

Ryan Stokes, assistant professor of Old Testament, holds Paleo-Leviticus, the Dead Sea Scrolls fragment he has been studying. The scroll contains portions of Leviticus 21:7-12 and 22:21-27. It will be on display along with at least 16 other biblical manuscript fragments and other artifacts during the “Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible” exhibit beginning July 2. Photo by Ben Peacock