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Sale of closed church enriches ABC seminary: Funds will endow chair in congregational health

An American Baptist seminary in Shawnee, Kansas, has received a gift in excess of $2.2 million—the largest in the school’s history—from the former members of a St. Louis–area congregation that became too small to support itself.

Central Baptist Theological Seminary was the designated recipient of funds from the sale of the Des Peres Baptist Church in St. Louis’s posh western suburbs, the seminary announced July 31.