SCS Professor to Work on Upcoming Hymnal
January 16, 2007
Doug Jackson, Director of Logsdon Programs at SCS and professor of spiritual formation, will be contributing to a new hymnal scheduled for publication in 2009.
The 2009 release will celebrate the 400th anniversary of Baptists (the earliest known General Baptist church was founded in 1609). An editorial team of church musicians will work with ministers of music, music professors, pastors and lay leaders to create the hymnal.
Leading the effort to produce the hymnal is the Townsend-McAfee Institute Graduate Studies in Church Music at Mercer University. The institute, which was created in 2005 as a collaboration of Mercer University's Townsend School of Music and McAfee School of Theology, prepares musical artists for ministry.
Dr. Jackson will serve on the Non-Musical Materials Committee for the hymnal. Dr. Jackson came to SCS in 2006, after serving as pastor of Second Baptist Church, Corpus Christi, since 1993. He recently completed his Doctor of Ministry degree from George W. Truett Theological Seminary.
For more information, please visit the Townsend-McAfee Institute news website.