Greenway is nominee for Southwestern Seminary president

Greenway is nominee for Southwestern Seminary president

By Grace Thornton
The Alabama Baptist

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS) alumnus Adam W. Greenway, dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has been unanimously selected by Southwestern Seminary’s presidential search committee as their nominee to fill the presidential vacancy.

The search committee will bring Greenway’s nomination to the full trustee board for a vote during a special called meeting to be held on Feb. 26–27. If elected, Greenway will become Southwestern Seminary’s ninth president.

A Samford University graduate, Greenway, 41, went on to earn master’s degrees from Southwestern and the University of Notre Dame, as well as earning a Ph.D. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

Over the years, Greenway has served as pastor or interim pastor of churches in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Texas and Florida. He also is a past president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention and has served in other denominational roles.

Thomas Wright, director of missions for Mobile Baptist Association and president of Alabama’s SWBTS alumni association, said Greenway’s “practical emphases in evangelism and missions, his experience as an academic administrator and his oratorical ability bring credentials and skills” to the role.

“He knows the culture, faculty and staff of SWBTS as a student,” Wright said. “The challenges before him require alumni and others to pray with Proverbs 2:1–6 for wisdom, insight and understanding.”

Neal Hughes, associational mission strategist for Montgomery Baptist Association and vice president of Alabama’s SWBTS alumni association, called Greenway a “high-capacity leader.”

“Dr. Greenway’s journey at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary as the Dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry, his statesmanship through the years as a Southern Baptist leader as well as Adam’s pastoral relationships to the churches of our nation’s heartland has greatly prepared our brother to take the helm as president of Southwestern,” Hughes said. “As an alumnus of this great institution, I am grateful not only to the Greenway family for having an open heart toward God’s will but also to our SWBTS trustees who have faithfully led in the presidential search. Praying with expectancy.”

Greenway is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Evangelical Philosophical Society and is a past president of the Southern Baptist Professors of Evangelism Fellowship. He also is co-editor of two books — “The Great Commission Resurgence: Fulfilling God’s Mandate in Our Time” and “Evangelicals Engaging Emergent: A Discussion of the Emergent Church Movement” — and has contributed to several other books and journals. (BP contributed)