Golfers and donors at the 21st annual Heritage Classic Golf Tournament Monday gave $285,000 to benefit students at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. That money will go toward helping keep tuition rates as low as possible for students entering gospel ministry.
A total of 22 teams competed at Big Spring Country Club, and Dr. R. Albert Mohler, SBTS president, thanked golfers and donors for their investment “for a cause, a mission, for the glory of God.” Mohler added that the impact of the money raised will result in “preachers reaching people with the gospel,” adding that “you are doing something impactful here and for eternity. Between now and eternity, we have a lot of work to do.”
Since the inception of the Heritage tournament, $2.5 million has been raised for the purpose of funding gospel ministry.
Edward Heinze, vice president for institutional advancement, presented the $5,000 Rick Bordas Memorial Scholarship to Eric Rosson, a native of Hillsboro, Texas, who is pursuing his MDiv, concentrating in the biblical languages and biblical theology.
Rosson is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas with a bachelor’s degree in human resources management. He currently work in the SBTS housing office.
Rosson told the crowd that he was saved in college, and then was in a one-year ministry training program at a Texas church. “It was there I realized I needed to know much more,” he said, prompting him to visit Southern, where he said he “fell in love with the faculty and teaching that was so formative.” He added, “On behalf of folks you will never see, hands you will never shake and voices you will never hear, thank you.”
Accompanying him was his wife, Matti, a native of Clovis, N.M., who graduated from Texas Tech University with a bachelor’s degree in media relations and a minor in public relations. She currently works in the campus admissions office while pursuing her master’s degree in biblical counseling at SBTS.
Bordas was a long-time SBTS friend who died in 2013. His family established the scholarship to help men prepare for pulpit ministry. Since its inception 10 years ago, $50,000 has been awarded to SBTS students.
This article was originally published by Kentucky Today.
