Southwestern Seminary - First Year

It is hard to imagine that I have completed a full year of graduate work at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. I can remember renting the U-Haul in Chattanooga and making the long drive out to Fort Worth, TX with my family for the first time. I have decided to recap the first year as quickly as possible. If you would more details about any of the events that occurred, please let me know.

• Co-leader for a Challenge Group at Birchman Baptist Church. Challenge Groups are focused discipleship groups where the members challenge one another to spend more time in God's Word and to share the Gospel.
• Completed two Elementary Greek classes. I have now started my New Testament Greek classes.
  
• Preached my first revival at Eternal Life Baptist Church in Mooresville, IN.
• Preached two sermons during our Wednesday night worship time at Birchman over the summer. (One lost soul came to know Christ. Thanks be to God!)
  
• Performed two weddings during the summer.
• Joined the Birchman Choir.
• Assisted Birchman with the implementation of our new church wide discipleship process, BoldCourse. Feel free to check out www.boldcourse.org.
• Started a prayer time on Sunday morning. The name of which is "Awaken." Also, I now manage all of our prayer times on Sunday morning.

The above is only a brief recap from my first year. I ask that you continue to pray for me as I serve God in Texas. I will do my best to update this blog regularly. I will post an update when I have updated the blog on Facebook, as well as on Twitter (@chadrowell).