Mid-America Messenger-Summer 2022

COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE

PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVES

Then our mouth was filled with laughter

emphasis on the Bible, missions, and evangelism. So, the plan

And our tongue with joyful shouting;

changed from prayer only to stepping out on faith and starting

Then they said among the nations,

what Dr. Allison later referred to as “the right kind of seminary.”

“The Lord has done great things for them.”

LIGHTING THE WAY

The Lord has done great things for us; We are glad.

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PSALM 126:2–3

hen the Lord does a great work, it is always appropriate for His people to rejoice. Now, as Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary celebrates 50 years of service

to our Savior, we have many reasons to honor what the Lord has done through this special ministry. For those of us who listened for years as Dr. Gray Allison told the story, “The Miracle of MidAmerica,” the past is ingrained into our memories and emotions.

THE CONTEXT Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary was never owned or operated by the Southern Baptist Convention, but it was birthed within this denomination as surely as it could be. The concerns surrounding the Southern Baptist Convention were the concerns of the founders of Mid-America. The founders’ training and ministries had been exclusively Southern Baptist. Further, the missions and cooperative culture of the Southern Baptist Convention was their culture as well. So, a conundrum existed.

How do you avoid the dangerous drift theologically leftward without separation? Can you be “salt and light” within your own denomination? And how do you influence a group that may not fully want your influence?

THE PLAN According to Dr. Allison, the original plan was to meet yearly, often at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention each June, and pray. Their prayer was that one of our seminaries would catch fire with a zeal for missions and evangelism that would spread far and wide. Some discussion existed that a new seminary could be started in the northeastern United States, so perhaps this new school could be a place of revival.

As the decade of the 1960s ended, it became more apparent that no northeastern school would become a reality and that no existing school had yet made the turn to place the proper

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PRESIDENT MID-AMERICA SEMINARY AND COLLEGE 2

MID-AMERICA MESSENGER

Dr. Allison and the initial faculty did not see themselves just stepping into a new ministry to model good behavior for others; they saw themselves as being personally obedient to the call of the Lord Jesus on their lives to follow Him. These men and their families sacrificed their careers and reputations to stand strong for the Lord.

Fifty years later the same distinctives can be found in the classrooms of Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary. Bible, missions, and evangelism serve as the doctrinal centerpiece of who and what the school is. When I first became president in 1997, I met with Dr. Adrian Rogers and asked him his thoughts on the future of Mid-America. He told me that, “As Mid-America goes, so goes the Southern Baptist Convention. As long as the Lord has a place for the Southern Baptist Convention, He will have a place for Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary.”

INSIDE SUMMER 2022 VOLUME 50, NUMBER 1 Published by Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary and The College at Mid-America PRESIDENT Michael Spradlin, PhD EDITOR Randy Redd, PhD DESIGN Eternity Communications WEB mabts.edu collegeatmidamerica.com EMAIL info@mabts.edu SOCIAL  facebook.com/mabts.edu  twitter.com/mabts  instagram.com/mabts_

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BY THE NUMBERS The number 50 is just the beginning of the astounding achievements evidenced by the telling of our story through numbers.

Check out this infographic and look for other stats in this issue.

MID-AMERICA LEGACY & LIGHT

MID-AMERICA MILESTONES

The legacy of Mid-America is one of faithful men and women who have served steadfastly and sacrificially to enlighten students and share the Gospel light.

Five decades of ever-expanding vision, ministry, influence, growth, and impact have produced a world-class seminary that is still lighting the way.

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PRACTICAL MISSIONS

COLLEGE REACHES HIGHER

FOUNDERS’ DAYS 2022

Our practical missions program is a Mid-America distinctive, and count on it, you’ll always find the report in the Messenger.

Although Mid-America has offered undergraduate degrees since its inception, it began The College at Mid-America in 2017.

Always an annual highlight, this year’s Founders’ Days will be an extra special celebration and look ahead. See back cover for details.

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number of available practical missions and community service ministries

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number of degree programs—7 undergraduate level and 31 graduate level

COMBINED FACULTY EXPERIENCE

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percentage of each student’s tuition funded

by Mid-America donors

percentage of alumni involved in vocational ministry

817 357

years as followers of Jesus years of higher education teaching experience

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NUMBERS

50-year average number of professions of faith each week through the witnessing of our students

percentage of Mid-America degrees fully accredited

826 57

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percentage of professors with earned doctorate

books, articles, publications, and contributions to published works countries served in ministry; every continent except Antarctica

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number of state conventions which have a Mid-America alumnus leading as Executive Director

From four campuses (Little Rock, Memphis, Germantown, and Cordova), three focal points (Bible, missions, and evangelism), two presidents (each leading for a quarter of a century), and one preeminent Head (Christ—Colossians 1:18), Mid-America has forged a legacy of faithfulness that promises an ongoing future of lighting the way.

Dr. B. Gray Allison

BY MICHAEL R. SPRADLIN, PHD

PRESIDENT, MID-AMERICA

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very decade of the history of Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary brought change and challenges. The origin of the school

in the early 1970s was truly a faith-based start with a handful of students meeting in Olivet Baptist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. Under the leadership of Dr. Gray Allison, the school not only experienced dynamic enrollment growth, but also the school changed locations almost every decade of its life.

Only three years old, the school relocated from Little Rock, Arkansas, to Memphis, Tennessee, to meet on the property of Bellevue Baptist Church until its new location across the street from Bellevue was ready for

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use. Although the main campus remained in one place

A STARTUP

for the 1980s, the school did open a branch campus in

SCHOOL

Schenectady, New York, to begin theological training

meeting in borrowed

nearer to some of the larger cities of the United States. In

classrooms to now an

1996, the institution relocated to the suburbs of Memphis,

institution with a physical presence in

inhabiting the former facilities of the Germantown Baptist

three states was an amazing journey for just over 20 years.

Church in Germantown, Tennessee. Plans were made for

The backdrop of all of this was the fact that the school

the first housing for seminary students, and the proposed

operated on a bare minimum financial foundation that

location was to be nearby in Olive Branch, Mississippi.

placed maximum pressure on the school’s leaders but also

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gave maximum glory to the school’s provider, the Lord!

Sometime in late 1996 Dr. Allison had a conviction from

to start on time. The story of Mid-America is more than

the Lord that it was time for him to retire as the founder

the Lord providing for financial crises like this, but these

and President of Mid-America. The first sense that many

moments illustrate what our mighty God can do when He

friends of the school had that he was stepping down came

gets the glory, and it is His will!

with the announcement that the Trustees had found whom

CHANGES WERE HAPPENING in our beloved Southern

they believed the Lord wanted to next lead the school,

Baptist Convention as the denominationally-owned

Mike Spradlin.

seminaries were hiring strong inerrantists as their new

If ignorance is bliss, those were the happiest days of

presidents, and those presidents were reshaping the

my life and ministry. The challenge of following in the

theological makeup of their institutions. Another change

footsteps of a beloved founder and leader is daunting

was the establishment of college programs by the SBC

to say the least. One great asset was that Dr. Allison still

seminaries. These changes were just a prelude to the

wanted to be involved in the school. He was already

tsunami of online learning and distance education which

the best boss I had ever had, and he truly mentored

was to come.

me in the first years on the job. Dr. Adrian Rogers, my

Though never a part of our strategic plan, the Lord

pastor, always made time for me to ask questions and

had a plan to move the school yet again. A neighboring

consult about leadership and decision making, as did his

medical facility approached us, and we eventually sold

executive pastor, Bob Sorrell. Also, two of the long-time

our Germantown Campus and were invited to move next

Trustee officers, Mr. Gene Howard and Mr. Roland Maddox,

door to our great friends at Bellevue Baptist Church, now

invested greatly in me and helped me learn with lots of

located on the eastern side of Memphis. Our new campus

on-the-job training. The Seminary faculty, many of whom

and relocated student housing constitute a wonderful 51-

had been my professors, were incredibly patient and

acre site to train pastors and missionaries to win the world

understanding (I had been their favorite student after all).

for Christ. The new facilities and equipment greatly aided

Many others helped as well, and I could never thank them

in our expansion to online learning as an extension of our

all adequately.

reach in theological training.

SO NOW THE CHALLENGE BEGAN. How do you lead

The second decade of the 2000s saw the expansion

in a place with such a strong culture even for a school

of our limited undergraduate programming with the

with a relatively brief history? My idea was never to come

beginning of The College at Mid-America in 2017. Although

in and change things but to learn first and foremost. A lot

traditional extension campuses are not as common, we

of advice early on went right over my head until I began

now have two campuses that meet inside prisons offering

to figure things out later. When talking with Bob Sorrell

fully accredited degrees. One campus is in Arkansas and

about my adjustments to my new role, he told me, “The

the other is in Colorado, and we have wonderful faculty

organization will have a harder time adjusting to you than

who live nearby each campus to oversee our work there.

you will to it.”

One part of my preparation to serve as President had

Each Tuesday we still gather for Chapel as we have for 50 years, and the call goes out to the students, “Who has a

been some very difficult family circumstances with the

witnessing testimony to share today?” The testimonies are

birth of our daughter. After my wife Lee Ann spent 91 days

such an encouragement. I remember when some of their

in the hospital to keep her alive and then a traumatic birth

parents were here and sharing in Chapel, giving glory to

and recovery for both mother and daughter, we had seen

God for souls being saved. Now, their children, their legacy,

the Lord do a deep work in desperate times.

talk about how God used them and someone accepted

With the construction of Mid-America Housing looming right away, I was told that we were $1 million short of our

Christ as Savior.

UNTIL THE LORD COMES AGAIN our work is not done.

goal to begin construction and that we needed to decide

Lost people need Jesus, churches need pastors, and the

to delay that start if we could not get the money. Prayer,

world needs missionaries. To all the world for Jesus’ sake.

prayer, prayer! And then the next week a wonderful friend

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of the school sent a check for $1 million, and we were able

MID-AMERICA MESSENGER

This excerpt is from the story faithfully told by Dr. B. Gray Allison, late founder and President of Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary 1972–1997 and President Emeritus until his death in 2019. “Dr. Gray,” as he was called, told the story each year during the Seminary’s annual Founders’ Days that kick off the school year. Over the years, new chapters were added to the story, eventually becoming known as “The Miracle of Mid-America,” as God continued to work. Scan the code below or visit our website to read or watch the complete story.

AS TOLD BY DR. B. GRAY ALLISON, FOUNDING PRESIDENT, MID-AMERICA

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umber one, our motto was carefully chosen. “That in all things He might have the preeminence” [Colossians 1:18]. It’s all Him. In 1962, some of us began to talk about the need for a

seminary—a Bible-believing, Bible-teaching, Bible-preaching

seminary—the need to get these young preachers filled with the Word of God and filled with the Spirit of God out witnessing.

Most of you are too young to know, but our [Southern Baptist] Convention had gone a long way in the wrong direction. The seminaries were liberal. The colleges were liberal. Our whole Convention had just drifted. Some of us were really burdened. We began to talk about it and pray about it and ask God to give us a seminary.

For about nine years a group of us talked about the need for a seminary where every professor would believe all the Bible, all the way through without any question at all. Where every professor would be an active member of a local cooperating Southern Baptist Church. We had some professors in some seminaries who weren’t. How are you going to have Baptists if you don’t have Baptists training them? Where every professor would be a soulwinner.

A seminary that would be centered in missions and evangelism. Just unashamedly conservative. Unashamedly evangelistic and mission minded.

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Dr. Gray Allison (standing third from left) with the faculty of Mid-America, c. 1976.

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MID-AMERICA MILESTONES

FULLY ACCREDITED 1981

SONRISE BIBLE STUDY 1996

1,000 DEGREES AWARDED 1991

Mid-America awarded SACS accreditation.

NORTHEAST CAMPUS 1987

Establishes the Northeast Campus of Mid-America in Schenectady, New York.

Mid-America begins the “Businessmen’s Breakfast Bible Study,” later renamed the SonRise Bible Study.

Mid-America Seminary reaches the milestone of awarding 1,000 academic degrees.

Today, Mid-America has awarded 3,033 degrees—from Associate to PhD.

RELOCATES TO MEMPHIS 1975

Mid-America relocates to Memphis in a former Jewish temple and Hebrew school on Poplar Avenue.

MID-AMERICA COMES TO LIFE 1972

Dr. B. Gray Allison founds MidAmerica Baptist Theological Seminary in Little Rock, Arkansas, with four professors and 28 students.

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Mid-America reaches 100,000 professions of faith in its practical missions program.

Today, the total surpasses 167,000.

100,000 LIBRARY VOLUMES 1988

Mid-America Library reaches the milestone of 100,000 volumes.

Today, the Library holds 207,300 volumes.

GERMANTOWN CAMPUS 1996

Mid-America moves to new campus in Germantown, Tennessee.

DR. GRAY GRADUATES TO HEAVEN 2019

DR. GRAY HANDS BATON TO DR. SPRADLIN 1997

Dr. Gray graduates to Heaven on February 12.

His wife, Voncille, also passes away less than a year later on January 20, 2020.

CORDOVA CAMPUS 2006

Mid-America moves to an all-new campus in Cordova, Tennessee, including adjoining student housing.

Dr. Gray retires as President and continues to serve as President Emeritus and Professor of Evangelism. Succeeded

by Dr. Michael Spradlin, Mid-America double alumnus and former Northeast Campus Director.

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22 50 YEARS OF LIGHTING THE WAY 2022

Mid-America celebrates 50 years of equipping biblical leaders to take the Gospel to all the world for Jesus’ sake.

THE COLLEGE AT MID-AMERICA 2017

Mid-America begins The College at Mid-America.

MID-AMERICA PASSION PLAY 2017

Mid-America resurrects the popular Passion Play, bringing the annual event back to the Mid-South, directed

by Dr. James Whitmire.

ONLINE COURSES 2006

Mid-America begins offering online courses.

In 2015, we began offering full degrees online.

PRISON INITIATIVES 2019

Mid-America begins the Arkansas Prison Initiative, offering inmates a BA in Christian Studies. A similar program in Colorado begins in 2021.

INSTITUTE FOR NOUTHETIC STUDIES 2019

Dr. Jay E. Adams, the father of the modernday biblical counseling movement, entrusts his Institute for Nouthetic Studies (INS) to MidAmerica, including all of his published works and the INS publishing company.

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 PRACTICAL MISSIONS

“A ND THE THINGS THAT YO U HAVE HE ARD F ROM M E AM O NG M ANY W ITNESSES, COM M IT THESE TO FAITHFUL MEN W HO W ILL B E ABLE TO TE ACH OTHE RS ALSO.” 2 TIMOTHY 2:2

BY RONNIE TULLOS

DIRECTOR, INNER-CITY OUTREACH CENTER, MEMPHIS

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ill Gordon (Mid-America alumnus, MDIV, 1980) led me to Jesus on September 1, 1981. I was baptized the next day, and on September 3, he and I went soul-winning and saw a young

woman saved. He taught me that it is normal Christianity to be a soul-winner. Where did he learn that truth and perfect

your love for the lost, your worship of the Savior, and

his evangelistic presentation? It was through the Practical

instills a lifelong habit of looking for and taking advantage

Missions outreach of Mid-America Baptist Theological

of opportunities to share the Gospel. It had an impact on

Seminary. Bill took me under his wing and taught me what

my salvation, training, and education. It continues to work

he had learned at seminary.

through our ministry of evangelism as we teach young men

After Bill was called to another church, Hector Eugene Slaughter, a member of the MABTS Development Council, started teaching me. He supported Mid-America because

and women that the normal thing for a Christian is to be a soul-winner.

For the 30 years that I was involved directly with

of their emphasis on missions and evangelism. Later,

Practical Missions at Mid-America, we saw over 50,000

Ken Harris and Dr. Wren Causey, Trustees of MABTS,

people ask Jesus to save them. This included missions

encouraged me to be evangelistic. Contact with men who

trips, street witnessing, evangelistic crusades, and revivals.

were involved with the Seminary was an important part of

Students and former students were involved in these

my early Christian training.

outreach events. The truths and habits learned at seminary

In 1987, I enrolled at MABTS, and with the approval

during the Practical Missions outreach was put into

of Dr. Steve Wilkes who directed Practical Missions, we

practice. Thank God for a school where the Bible, missions,

started the Street Ministry Outreach. During my time at

and evangelism is the foundation of all they do. So many

the Seminary, hundreds of people who worked and lived

lives have been changed.

on the streets of Memphis asked Jesus to save them. We would pray and ask Jesus where He wanted us to go.

There were times when people literally ran us down to get saved. Most of the men who were involved in the Practical Missions efforts of the school have gone on to be pastors, evangelists, and missionaries. Several have told me that what they learned sitting around the table before we went out has been indispensable in their ministries. What did they learn? Truths from Bill Gordon, H. E. Slaughter, Ken Harris, Dr. Causey, and the professors at Mid-America that were taught to me. Men who were greatly involved at MABTS invested their time in me, and I continued that method throughout my time at the school.

THE PRACTICAL MISSIONS PROGRAM AT MIDAMERICA is not just about winning people to Jesus, although so many have been saved; it is about learning from one another how to be a witness. It also increases

ABOUT ALUMNUS RONNIE TULLOS Saved from a life of drugs and alcohol, Ronnie had a burden for those with the same struggle. In 1987, Ronnie and Susan moved their family to Memphis and began attending Mid-America. During his time there, he started the Street Ministry Practical Mission which continues to go out on the streets of Memphis. One of his favorite things has been to teach and mentor seminary students throughout the years.

In 1993, he founded the Inner-City Outreach Center and later planted Miracle Baptist Church, his second church plant. Since coming to the Lord in 1981, Ronnie has seen more than 60,000 people ask Jesus to save them.

All glory goes to Jesus Christ! Combining evangelistic trips, overseas and at home, with revivals, crusades, and street ministry, God has evidenced a call to evangelism in Ronnie’s life.

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WITNESS ONE:SEVEN & GO! PROGRAM REPORT

2021–2022

167, 429 PROFESSIONS OF FAITH WITNESSED BY OUR STUDENTS SINCE 1972

8, 840 3, 670 NUMBER OF HOURS OUR STUDENTS SPENT DOING PRACTICAL MISSIONS

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NUMBER OF PROFESSIONS OF FAITH THROUGH THE WITNESSING OF OUR STUDENTS THIS YEAR

NUMBER OF PEOPLE OUR STUDENTS WITNESSED TO

1,788 NUMBER OF SERMONS PREACHED BY OUR STUDENTS

Witness One:Seven and GO! Program results reported Fall 2021 through Summer 2022

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MID-AMERICA MESSENGER

HIGHLIGHTS

WANTED: TEAM PLAYERS TO POINT STUDENTS TO MID-AMERICA Our Admissions Team is seeking alumni and friends who will help us tell the story of Mid-America to those God may be calling to our school. The compensation package? It’s out of this world! No, it’s not a paid position, but it’s extremely rewarding both to those who refer a student to us and to those who respond.

Studies show that the vast majority (91 percent) of MidAmerica students attend our school because a friend or family member told them about us. It’s word-ofmouth advertising that no amount of money can buy.

PREVIEW DAY, OCTOBER 13, 2022 THEME IS “JOIN OUR TEAM!” This fall, we’ve planned the perfect opportunity for you to refer to us a student who is looking for a college or seminary. Take a moment right now and call, email, or text someone you know, inviting them to Preview Day on October 13. Visit mabts.edu/previewday or collegeatmidamerica/previewday.

Held March 31–April 3, our 2022 production entitled “Lord, I Believe,” was the highest attended Mid-America Passion Play ever with more than 10 professions of faith and countless lives reached!

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MID-AMERICA’S NEXT 50 YEARS. NEVER HAS THE LIGHT BEEN MORE NEEDED THAN NOW. AN IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT IMPACTING OUR NEXT 50 YEARS WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT FOUNDERS’ DAYS 2022.

Reaching new heights.

COLLEGE DEAN DR. BRAD THOMPSON: “Think of our philosophy in terms of A-B-C: affordable, biblically focused, and connected to the world.”

BY DR. BRAD THOMPSON

in both prison populations. Over a hundred inmates are

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currently enrolled in Arkansas and Colorado, and the first

reach up and reach out, connecting the classroom to the

College has transformed the admissions process, and a

community through a commitment to the sufficiency of

more organic approach is taken in onboarding students.

Scripture, personal evangelism, and missions.

Partnering with the Student Life and Registrar’s offices, the

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND DEAN OF THE COLLEGE o all the world for Jesus’ sake.” It’s the rallying

graduation ceremony will be held at the Varner Supermax

cry that has united Mid-America students for

in 2023.

the last half-century. Today, The College at Mid-America’s heart and conviction continue to

As we start the second 50 years of the school, we

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF DR. CANDI FINCH, DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS, the Admissions team for the

school now shepherds students from their first interest

continue to see the blessings of the Lord as faculty,

in the College all the way through their degree program.

students, and staff recast their same core commitments

Prospective students can attend Preview Day experiences

through multiple degree programs in the College

in the fall or spring semesters with their parents and family,

and Seminary. Although Mid-America has offered

and individual campus visits are available to students

undergraduate degrees since our inception, we began

and families throughout the year. Information concerning

The College at Mid-America in 2017 to broaden our reach

faculty, tuition costs, housing, student life, and course

to students in the fields of Christian Studies, Biblical

content is presented.

Counseling, Business Administration, and Organizational

As Dean of the College, I think it is helpful to think of our

Leadership. New degree programs are being planned for

philosophy in terms of A-B-C: affordable, biblically focused,

the 2022–23 academic year as the college is experiencing

and connected to the world. We are affordable because

tremendous enrollment. All degree programs focus on

we are not a tuition-driven school. Many donors contribute

understanding course content through a biblical worldview.

to the College to keep tuition within reach of our students.

THE COLLEGE AT MID-AMERICA GENERATES

We don’t want our graduates to be burdened with debt

EXCITEMENT on campus as faculty pour their lives into

as they launch into their careers. Every degree program is

students to help shape them for God’s plan for their

taught through the lens of a biblical worldview. We believe

lives. College students participate in lively worship and

the Bible is sufficient, and no other lens is needed. We also

preaching during weekly chapel services, and they have

believe that education should be useful, connecting theory

added new enthusiasm in the residential life of the school

to practice. We focus on how the college experience will

as they interact with each other through clubs, programs,

help students to be successful in what God has called

and special events. The original Practical Missions program

them to do.

that alumni will remember so well has been recast as

THE NEXT 50 YEARS OF MID-AMERICA should be as

Witness One:Seven for the Seminary and the GO! Program

exciting as the first as we seek to stay on track, following

for College students. It has been the heartbeat of the

the Lord’s plan for His school and expanding our reach to a

Seminary from the beginning to put into practice lessons

lost and dying world.

from the classroom while still in school. Now, the College through its GO! Program is continuing the tradition as students serve others in the community for at least one

Admissions Director Dr. Candi Finch shares with students during Preview Day.

hour per week.

The College was asked by the Arkansas Baptist State Convention and the Global Prison Seminaries Foundation to begin offering a Bachelor of Arts in Christian Studies degree at the Varner Supermax prison in Lincoln County, Arkansas. Later, based on the success of the prison college classes, we were asked to begin the same degree at the Limon Correctional Facility in Limon, Colorado. This degree will be used by inmate students who are called to minister COLLEGEATMIDAMERICA.COM

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AN EVENT 50 YEARS IN THE MAKING

FOUNDERS’ DAYS 2022 AUGUST 16–18, 2022 Tuesday, August 16, 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday, August 17, 11:00 a.m.

Thursday, August 18, 11:00 a.m.

FOR A HALF CENTURY, Mid-America has been lighting the way by equipping biblical leaders to take the Gospel to all the world for Jesus’ sake. Now, it’s time to celebrate our legacy and to anticipate the bright future God has for our next generation.

We’ll enjoy a special line-up of speakers plus the unique kind of worship you experience only at Mid-America’s Chapel. Plan now to attend, or watch the livestream at mabts.edu/live.

SPECIAL MUSICAL GUESTS ERNIE HAASE & SIGNATURE SOUND—AUGUST 16, 7:00 P.M.—FREE!

SC HE DUL E A ND SPEAKERS AT M A B T S.E DU/FOUN D ERSDAYS