Noting record growth in enrollment and continued financial stability, Midwestern Seminary President Jason K. Allen told messengers to the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting on June 11 in Dallas that the institution is “absolutely committed to serving Southern Baptist churches.”
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“We ask ourselves daily, regularly, how can we most faithfully serve the churches of the Southern Baptist Convention? You, brothers and sisters, … are our ministry,” he said.
Highlighting four strategic priorities — missional faithfulness, faculty strength, student success and a flourishing campus community — Allen said incoming residential master’s degree-seeking students can receive a full tuition scholarship for their first year. Midwestern students come from all 50 states and 63 countries, some of which are hard places to reach with the gospel.
Allen said the seminary is looking to the future by catching up on deferred maintenance and adding new residential spaces for students. Midwestern has “zero debt, a growing endowment” and increased financial net assets over the past 12 years, Allen said.
“We are not owners in Kansas City,” Allen said. “We are stewarding this institution for you as Southern Baptists.”
