Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary recently celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Cooperative Program and the seminary’s role in its beginning during a Founder’s Day chapel service on the Fort Worth campus.
Southwestern Seminary President David S. Dockery noted the event usually involves an address about one of the early leaders of the seminary. However, he said, “we’re tying today’s Founder’s Day together with an important event in the life of Southern Baptists as a whole, in that 100 years ago … the Cooperative Program was birthed, and God has used that to advance the Gospel, to strengthen the work of Southern Baptists through the years.”
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The March 13 event featured a panel discussion with Nathan Lorick, executive director of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention; Sandy Wisdom-Martin, executive director of the Woman’s Missionary Union; Madison Grace, provost and vice president for academic administration at Southwestern Seminary; James Spivey, church historian and pastor of Gambrell Street Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas; and Andy Pettigrew, director of NextGen Mobilization for the International Mission Board.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Karen Garcia and originally published by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
