Ronald Morgan Receives 2005 Kellar Award

The Baptist Missionary Association Theological Seminary's Board of Trustees recently voted to select Pastor Ronald Morgan of First Baptist Church in Springhill, Louisiana, to be the recipient of the 2005 Kellar Award.

Ronald Morgan is a native of Springhill, Louisiana and in May of 1958 he married Dianne Baker, also a native of Springhill. They are the parents of two children and grandparents of four.

He surrendered to the ministry in 1971 and was ordained by First Baptist Church in Springhill. He began his ministry with Webb Chapel Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas in 1971 as Associate Pastor and then served as Senior Pastor from 1972 until January of 1999.

While pastor in Dallas Morgan commuted to BMA Seminary and graduated in May of 1990.

Morgan has served as clerk of the BMA Seminary Trustees, moderator of the Missionary Committee of the BMA of America, and on the Arrangements Committee for the BMA of America. He has also served on various committees for the BMA of Texas and the Dallas County Association.

Morgan has served four terms as president of the BMA of America and three terms as vice-president. Currently he is on the Advisory Committee of the BMA of America Missions Department and the Coordinating Council of the BMA of America. He is also moderator of the BMA of Louisiana and the Springhill Baptist Association and is a member of the Publications Committee, the Standing Missionary Committee, the Missions Investigation and Recommendation Committee, and serves as a Trustee of the Revolving Loan Fund.

Morgan is listed in past and current issues of Who’s Who. He has been included in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, Who’s Who in American Christian Leadership and Who’s Who in Religion.

The Kellar award was created in 2004 to honor BMA Seminary graduates whose ministries reflect the example of Dr. Gerald D. Kellar, founding president of BMA Seminary from 1956-1967. He was instrumental in the organization of the BMA of America and has the distinction of having served as president of each BMA institution of higher learning. In 1964, the BMA Seminary library was named Kellar Library in his honor. He passed away in May 2001.

The first recipient of the Kellar Award was Grady Higgs, Executive Director of the Baptist Missionary Association of America Department of Missions, who was a graduate of BMA Seminary in 1971.

The Kellar Award will be presented at the Seminary Friends Dinner on Tuesday evening, April 19, 2005 at the Holiday Inn, Joplin, Missouri. Friends are invited to attend. For information or reservations, contact Carol Shine at 903-586-2501, Ext. 218 or by e-mail at cshine@bmats.edu.