Robert Smith Jr. Student Scholarship

Beeson Divinity School Announces New Robert Smith Jr. Student Scholarship

Samford University’s Beeson Divinity

School is pleased to announce a new scholarship in honor of longtime faculty member Robert Smith Jr. for his more than 20 years at Beeson and his more than 50 years of preaching God’s Word. The Robert Smith Jr. Student Scholarship will provide signifi cant scholarship assistance to outstanding applicants who are called to a preaching ministry. "Dr. Smith is one of the most respected preachers in the world, and one of the most beloved professors and mentors at Beeson,” said Beeson's Dean Douglas A. Sweeney. “He has become a spiritual father to literally hundreds of our grads, so it is fi tting that his legacy continues in part through this provision for Beeson students of the future. Gifts to the Robert Smith Scholarship fund will help us train godly 'pastors who can preach' for years to come." Smith, who has been teaching at Beeson

since 1997, is a world-renowned preacher and teacher of preaching, having received the E.K. and V.M. Bailey Living Legend Award in 2017. He has fi lled numerous pulpits on Sunday mornings around the nation and world, and has lectured and taught on the subject of preaching at conferences such as The Gospel Coalition, the E.K. Bailey Preaching Conference and Morling College Preaching Conference in Sydney, Australia, to name a few. Smith is also the author of two books, Doctrine that Dances: Bringing Doctrinal Preaching and Teaching to Life and The Oasis of God: From Mourning to Morning. “I feel overwhelmed that anything would be put in my name,” said Smith. “I want the scholarship to refl ect God’s glory. If the scholarship can promote the cause of Christ through the gospel, I’d just be so grateful. I want the scholarship to be an instrument to equip people who can edify the church.” To give to this scholarship, contact contact Gary Fenton, Samford's senior advancement offi cer, at gdfenton@samford. edu or send a check to Fenton's attention at 800 Lakeshore Drive Birmingham, Alabama 35229. D