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Seminary’s annual golf tourney raises $250,000 for student tuition

Participants ranged in their golfing skills from amateur to experienced, but Jonah Twiddy and his family were real winners. Twiddy received the $5,000 Rick Bordas scholarship.
  • August 27, 2023
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Seminary’s annual golf tourney raises $250,000 for student tuition

The 20th Annual Heritage Classic Golf Tournament ended triumphantly as 108 golfers came together at Big Spring Country Club to raise $249,800 for Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Boyce College student tuition, August 21.

“We could not have had a better kickoff to our new academic year and the fall semester,” said Edward Heinze, vice president of institutional advancement at Southern Seminary.

Participants ranged in their golfing skills from amateur to experienced, but Jonah Twiddy and his family were real winners. Twiddy is a master of divinity student at Southern Seminary and received the $5,000 Rick Bordas scholarship.

A longtime friend of Southern Seminary, Bordas had a passion for seeing students trained to take the gospel to local churches and to international mission fields. Upon his death in 2013, his family and friends established a scholarship fund in his name.

Fulfilling the vision

Twiddy’s wife Leah and 1-year-old daughter Dakota stood with him as he accepted the scholarship. The Twiddys plan to serve in overseas missions as church planters — fulfilling the vision of Bordas and the mission of Southern Seminary.

President R. Albert Mohler Jr. thanked the participants for their commitment to the work of Southern Seminary and Boyce College.

“God is doing something absolutely remarkable at Southern Seminary and Boyce College,” Mohler said. “It will make a difference on the mission field and in the pulpits of our churches and places we will never go, places we’ll never see. That is absolutely glorious. What a great way to spend a day.”

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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Travis Hearne and originally published by Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. 

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