Nathan & Rachel Waldock

 

I grew up in the country of India as a missionary kid.  At that time, Northwest Baptist Seminary had an extension seminary program in Bangalore, India.  Every summer, two of the professors would give up some of their summer to come to India and teach for 3 weeks, often staying in our home.  I got to know most of the professors this way, and found them to be men who loved the Lord greatly, and took His Word seriously.

   

I came to America for college, and after college began thinking of seminary.  I didn’t exactly want more homework and papers to write, but I did want to know the Lord better and understand His Word better.  I remembered the professors at NBS that I had known as a kid, and knew that they would be good men to teach me, because of their passion for the Lord and His Word.

 

Although I was a Bible major at college, I quickly found that I didn’t know the Bible nearly as well as I thought – I didn’t even know what questions to be asking!!!  My time at NBS was eye-opening to say the least.  It was there that I realized that theology is not just something to learn and then fight over, it is to be a part of our everyday life – a part of our world view.  I learned to carefully study the Scriptures to find what they were saying instead of reading into them what I wanted them to say.  Above all, I grew in my understanding of who God is, and that understanding increased my love for Him.

 

Since graduating from Seminary, the Lord has led my wife Rachel and I back to the country of India to help train men to be pastors in India, by teaching in the seminary that started out as an extension of NBS.  Not only has the school had a profound impact on my life, it has had and will continue to have an impact on the country of India both through me and through the men it has already trained there.

 

Nathan & Rachel Waldock