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Digging Into History Nobts Team Hopes to Uncover Mysteries of Gezer Water System Volume 66.2 • Fall 2010 DIGGING INTO HISTORY NOBTS TEAM HOPES TO UNCOVER MYSTERIES OF GEZER WATER SYSTEM Student spotlight | Seminary enrollment snapshot | NOBTS honors Warren for 20 years of service LEMAIRSNSIONS! Book for 2011 and save Book your dates and pay your 50% deposit by November 30th and save 10% off per person! www.nobts.edu contents president’s perspective | 2 Five memories of Katrina M A G A Z I N E advancement news | 10 FALL 2010 DeMent Society honors special Volume 66.2 group of NOBTS donors Dr. Chuck Kelley President Providence Fund: When you give, lives are changed LEARN Dr. Jerry Garrard Vice President for Institutional Advancement Giving news in brief MISSIONS! Gary D. Myers Did you know? Yearly student costs Editor Boyd Guy seminary news | 14 Art Director & Persistent Prayers: Korean students Photographer meet early for prayer Suzanne Davis Editorial Assistant 4 Seminary Enrollment Snapshot PR Staff and IA Staff In Print: Drumm book preserves Book for 2011 and save Proof Reading Team FEATURES seminary’s Hurricane Katrina story cover story | 4 In Print: Recent books by alumni News in brief faculty news | 19 NOBTS trustees fill faculty posts n NOBTS team hopes to uncover mysteries of Gezer Water System Faculty Updates VISION is published by New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary n Dr. Jim Parker brings unique skills Mission trip enriches Riley family, 3939 Gentilly Blvd. New Orleans, LA 70126 to Gezer Water System Expedition provides research data (800) 662-8701 (504) 282-4455 www.nobts.edu n The Importance of Biblical Seminary honors Dr. Bill Warren nobtsfoundation.com Archaeology for 20 years of service Please send address changes and Alumni Updates to the office of alumni news | 22 Alumni Relations at the above student spotlight | 13 Oakwood baptizes 367 over address. NOTE: Alumni Updates three-week period will be used for publication in From Okinawa both the Vision magazine and on to New Orleans: the Alumni website. Fant named VP for Academic Angela Franklin Administration and Chief Academic Officer at Union Univ. Book your dates Alumni Updates and pay your 50% deposit New Orleans Baptist Theological Looking Back photograph Seminary is a Cooperative Program by November 30th and ministry, supported by the gifts of On the Cover save 10% off per person! Southern Baptists. Photographs by Art Beaulieu FALL 2010 | 1 president’s perspective New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Five memories of Katrina BY DR. CHUCK KELLEY heart and refused to leave. “God is our refuge and strength, a ugust 2005 was the most exciting start to an very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though academic year in anyone’s memory. We had become the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried A the largest of the six SBC seminaries. We assembled into the midst of the sea.” An amazing calm pushed back the a terrific faculty performing at the peak of their abilities. The flood of grief and despair. It filled the whole room. This was students were both passionate and bright, and they came from God’s problem, and He showed me how to let it go. My city all over the SBC. Stirring sermons in the second week of chapel and my campus were underwater for weeks, but Psalm 46 by New Orleans pastor Fred Luter and our Dean of the Chapel became my dry ground, the solid rock Katrina could neither David Platt had the whole campus buzzing. Never before was flood nor shake. our seminary family so filled with high expectations. Everyone knew this was going to be Mission became our lifeline an exceptional year at New My second memory is of the lifeline our mission became. Orleans Baptist Theological As clearly as I knew my name I knew we had to teach all our Seminary. In fact 2005 would classes and have graduation in December. We started the become the most exceptional semester with a deep excitement about the evidence of God’s year in the history of New grip on us, and that grip was not loosened by the worst natural Orleans Baptist Theological disaster in our nation’s history. By His grace we were going to Seminary but for far different finish what we started. When we did, we would know we were reasons than any of us in the midst of a miracle, not a tragedy. That perspective made suspected. all the difference. Focusing on the mission cleared the fog of On Friday morning Aug. where to start in the midst of such chaos and destruction. 26, a category one hurricane Three days after the storm I gathered our administrative named Katrina was moving team and a few faculty, staff, and student leaders in Atlanta toward the eastern Gulf and told them we would find a way to keep teaching every Coast. By Friday afternoon Kelley class. We would have December graduation and get our it exploded in size and kept moving westward. By Saturday it students to their fields of service. As we found our students, further transformed into a monster storm filling the Gulf of 85 percent of them told us they wanted to keep studying in Mexico, and for the first time in history the mayor ordered a spite of what happened. The entire faculty wanted to find mandatory evacuation of the city of New Orleans. By Saturday a way to keep teaching. We were homeless, stricken with night our campus was virtually empty. Forecasters now warned grief, and completely uncertain about much of the future, this could be the end of New Orleans. By Sunday afternoon, but we were still on mission. That sense of mission was our after intense debate with my administrative team, I evacuated point of certainty in the midst of so much unknown. As the before a storm for the first time in my life. On Monday, Aug. lifeline around which we rebuilt our lives and our seminary, 29, the storm struck, battering the city and breaking some knowing we were on mission became important in a way I of the levees. I sat on the end of a bed in a hotel room in never imagined. Birmingham, Ala., watching TV in shock as 70 percent or more of New Orleans went underwater for days and days. A campus buzzing with energy and excitement on Thursday became a Southern Baptists at their finest silent lake devoid of hope on Tuesday. A third memory etched deep in my soul is that of discovering anew how grateful I am to be a Southern Baptist. The connections we share are truly ties that bind. Katrina Loneliness, grief and despair destroyed much of the infrastructure of New Orleans, including My first memory is of a crushing weight of loneliness, the cell phone towers. Communication with each other, long grief and despair. Rhonda and I were now homeless. As far as after the storm was gone, was extremely difficult. We learned we knew we had nothing but what we carried into our hotel that we were not isolated, however. We had family wherever room. I had 400 employees, almost all of them now homeless the storm blew us, for wherever a Katrina evacuee ended up, and overwhelmed. We had 2,000 students studying in New Southern Baptists were there. Whenever they came back to Orleans, many more up and down the Gulf Coast. This was New Orleans, Southern Baptists were there. The embrace of trouble too big for anyone to fix, but the school and all of Southern Baptists in the midst of our grief and uncertainty is its faculty, staff, and students were my responsibility. I never something none of us will ever forget. imagined a soul could feel such a depth of grief and despair. The winds were just dying down when the disaster response Not even our cell phones would work. teams began arriving. And they kept coming and coming and Then suddenly it changed. As my wife and I wept and staying and staying. Every place Katrina blew our seminary prayed before the Lord, Psalm 46 moved into my mind and family, they were taken in, assisted, and loved on with tender 2 | vision magazine www.nobts.edu president’s perspective mercy. Within days the Georgia Baptist Convention found of Jesus, these men and women created a new way of doing places for scores of our seminary family, including me, to live. seminary and carried their students with them all the way The Florida Baptist Convention moved heaven and earth to get through the Katrina experience. We were not participants in a Wal-Mart gift cards to our faculty at the point of their most tragedy. We were participants in a miracle of God. desperate need. The largest single gift we received, more than $6 million, came from the Cooperative Program. Every SBC God is a powerful Redeemer entity sacrificed funds that would have come to them in order My fifth memory is the lesson burned into my soul during to help us. Many sent additional funds and volunteer workers all that was my Katrina experience. God proved that He is as well. a Redeemer. Out of something ugly, He made something What makes the story all the more remarkable is that aid beautiful. The most important lesson I learned is: Do Not Be and assistance went far beyond what Southern Baptists did Afraid! God is able to see you through any storm that life may for Southern Baptists. The image of Southern Baptists in bring. What God does in response to the worst of times makes New Orleans was transformed because of what our people a far deeper impression on the believer than the difficulty of did for those they did not know.
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