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Memphis native, NOLA Resident. PhD-Theology student @nobts . Associate Director of @nolametrobcm

New Orleans, LA
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@meaganstedman
Meagan Stedman
2 years
When do the new morning mercies officially go into effect? 6am? 8am??? Asking for a friend who woke up grumpy but is trying to adjust
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10 months
Presented my first ETS paper: ✅ Had the best time: ✅
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Men in the church: please don’t neglect the ability you have to champion the ministerial gifting of women in your lives. It matters so much! A (female) friend & I spent 15 minutes today raving about the impact that the support of certain male ministers has had on our ministries.
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
Today’s book haul at a sale on campus all for less than $100, today is the best day!!!!!!!!
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Meagan Stedman
3 months
Every convention, various female scholars from all over the SBC get together and encourage one another, and I’m so thankful every time. Love this group of women so much!! @TheSocietyNOBTS
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
A lil life update to kick off 2023: I’ve accepted the role of Associate Director at @nolametrobcm & will get to once again do campus ministry at Tulane & Loyola here in New Orleans!!! I’m so excited for the opportunity to serve these campuses as I continue to work on my PhD :)
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1 year
Paper proposal: Approved See you guys in San Antonio 😎
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3 months
Indy Bound ✌🏼✈️
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9 months
‘Tis the Season!!!!
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2 years
I love New Orleans but sometimes I feel like I live in a tropical Gotham
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Meagan Stedman
10 months
ETS 2023 is a wrap!!!! I always underestimate how encouraging this conference is, but it’s such a gift to be surrounded by such incredible people that God is using so greatly 💕 Until next time!!!
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@_JayAdkins Haha love you Jay! 😂
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Meagan Stedman
3 years
Getting your PhD in NOLA means trying to figure out how to still do Mardi Gras without failing out of your seminars. Prayers appreciated 😅
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Saturday mornings with coffee and Bavinck aren’t too shabby
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Meagan Stedman
11 months
The older I get and the more I study, I’m less impressed by lofty speech and I’m much much more impressed by those who can present really complex topics in really simple ways
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Meagan Stedman
7 months
A couple days in Phoenix and the highlight was definitely getting to see over 60 IMB missionaries be commissioned
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Meagan Stedman
3 months
Found some @NOBTS pals on the way to Indy!!
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
What am I doing on my 27th birthday you may ask? Reading John Owen like a good little PhD student! Everyone plz applaud
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Meagan Stedman
3 months
The SBC annual meeting is truly the biggest family reunion out there!! These sweet faces are a fraction of the people I that I have been so encouraged by these past few days. So thankful for this little corner of the church 🩵🩵 @JackiCKing @TaraBDew
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Meagan Stedman
3 years
100% echo the sentiments of the support received here @NOBTS . Every class, as an MDiv student and now as a PhD-Theology student, I’ve experienced nothing but respect and encouragement. It’s been so restorative and such a gift.
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Amy Morgan
3 years
@JackiCKing I wanted a Christian counseling degree. I ended up with an MDiv and a PhD, and I felt supported by faculty and respected by my peers no matter whether I was in a preaching, theology, or counseling class, masters or doctoral.
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2 years
2nd Semester of my PhD is well underway and who knew thankfulness and exhaustion could coexist quite like this???
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
I just want the world to know I sat here in the middle of a tornado reading Bavinck’s Reformed Ethics like a good little PhD student. This is not to be commended, I am silly and in dire need of a break from school😂
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
I haven’t been posting much of what I’ve been reading lately, but I’m excited about this one!! 😍
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
The church is desperately in need of leaders who are charitable, slow to speak, and slow to anger I don’t know much about the way forward in these days, but I know this
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
So often I miss what the Lord is actually doing because I’m fixated on what I’d prefer Him to do. Unmet expectations so easily distract us from the work the Lord is inviting us into
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Meagan Stedman
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Sometimes the PhD/full time collegiate ministry combo means that I leave my philosophical and theological anthropology seminar to zoom to the other side of town to ride a mechanical bull at a welcome week event!! It’s called balance!!!!
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Just submitted my last paper of the semester and my first year of PhD work is officially over 🎉🎉🎉 This year has been so exhausting and challenging, but the Lord has been so incredibly kind and I’m so so thankful 😭
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
One of my favorite study spots in NOLA is this coffee shop that’s in what was once a bank. I mean 😍😍
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SBC Executive Committee
3 months
SBC First Vice President, Jay Adkins, survived the tap. Will you? #findcraig #SBC24
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Me trying to write a research paper and two book reviews in the next three weeks
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Prayer walked around NOLA yesterday with some of my @NOBTS peeps. It was a sweet time of prayer with and for those in our city, and ya can’t beat the scenery either 😍
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Meagan Stedman
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Big fan of so many aspects of SBC life, but getting to serve alongside awesome women like these is by far one the best parts
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Katie J. McCoy
3 months
Round of applause for the solid women scholars serving on #SBC2024 committees this year @kannferg , @TaraBDew , and @meaganstedman . 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Yesterday afternoon I got to study outside and drink my coffee without being drenched in sweat! Big Nola blessings!!!!
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Some niche SBC humor for your Monday afternoon
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. @meaganstedman is so Southern Baptist that when she broke up with her last boyfriend, she told him “we are no longer in friendly cooperation with one another”
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Meagan Stedman
3 months
Summer reading!!
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Doing campus ministry in Nola means walking around campuses that look like this. U cute @Loyola_NOLA
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Study days in NOLA coffee shops truly can’t be beat
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
A delightfully unnecessary gift from my parents: a little embosser for all my books!
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
I’m about to spend the next week coaching CRU staff through a Biblical Interpretation course and prayers are appreciated! This course combines two of my favorite things: campus ministers and studying scripture, and I’m already so excited for what a gift this will be 😭😭
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Meagan Stedman
10 months
Happy Thanksgiving from the sweetest niece IN THE WORLD. So so thankful for all the Lord has given me 💙
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
I turn 27 today and am just filled with immense thankfulness for the life the Lord has given me. I get to live, learn, and serve in the coolest city ever. I have the sweetest community imaginable. The Lord has been so so good to me 😭
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
It’s been the sweetest start of the semester at BCM!! Everyone please pray that we’d steward this opportunity well and point the students of Tulane and Loyola to Christ!
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2 years
King Cake lines in Nola are a whole other animal
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
My goal is to get as much PhD work done as I can over this break to maximize parade attendance over the next couple months, everyone pray for me in this endeavor 😂 Getting your PhD in NOLA has its unique challenges
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
I am 100% where I am today, because of men who championed my gifting and passion for ministry. In a church world where women’s gifting and ministerial leadership is not always upheld, the support of a few key men has meant the world to me.
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Shoutout to @mbird12 for writing the first systematic theology book that I’ve ever read that made me laugh out loud (because of the wit, not the doctrine)
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Meagan Stedman
2 months
Visited Mobile this weekend to see @QuintAdkins lead worship at @FUGECamps !! This was my first time being at a Fuge Camp since I was a student about 10 years ago, and I’m so thankful for this ministry’s valuable investment in the lives of young people!!
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Meagan Stedman
3 years
Me trying to read about trinitarian theology late at night when my brain has stopped working:
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
My next reading for my seminar let’s goooo!!!
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
Just got back to NOLA after Collegiate Week, one of favorite weeks of the year. So thankful for a week of encouragement, fried pies, and time with my incredible collegiate ministry co-laborers from all over the country!!
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Meagan Stedman
10 months
ETS bound with @LauraHHui !!!
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
I’m absolutely intolerable when I help with children’s church because one of the kids will say, well intentioned, something like “Jesus wasn’t perfect either though was he?” And I’m like “Alright kids lemme tell you about something called a Christological heresy”
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
My view from Fall’s Creek this morning 😍
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
I recently found a small (not serious) melanoma on my leg & my doctor decided to inform me that he had sufficiently removed it & my tests were clear by sending me an in-app message with the two simple words “all out”. In case anyone wanted to know what NOLA healthcare is like!!
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
It’s crawfish time in Louisiana
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Meagan Stedman
3 years
Day 1 of my Research and Writing course for my PhD program and so far I have learned that I am actually illiterate and I have never written anything good ever Stay tuned for more fun little insights that I glean this week 👀🥰
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Meagan Stedman
2 months
Oop
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
Currently heading to Oklahoma for one of my favorite events of the year, Collegiate Week 🎉 Be praying for college ministers and students as we prepare our hearts for the upcoming school year!!
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Happy Epiphany and bring on the King Cake!!!!!! 💜💛💚
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Meagan Stedman
10 months
Got back in New Orleans just in time to get into a car wreck (everyone is okay) and have to try to figure out a ton of logistics so I can still visit my family for the holidays :/ it’s just a headache I wasn’t anticipating, prayers are appreciated!!
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
Today a New Orleans native told me they had assumed I was from the area, and anyone who’s lived in NOLA knows what a compliment that is 😍
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Meagan Stedman
10 months
ETS hasn’t even felt real because the rest of the semester has been so busy, but now it’s here and I can’t wait to see everyone!!! 🎉😍 See you all in San Antonio!!!
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Good gosh O’Donovan’s “Resurrection and Moral Order” is absolute🔥🔥 This section on marriage and singleness is gold
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Meagan Stedman
3 months
“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful. It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth…
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
Late to the party fo sho but I’m excited about my next read of the summer!
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Meagan Stedman
4 months
The wear and tear on this poor text is telling…
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
My favorite thing about trips to Nashville is getting to see all my people, and @TaraBDew is one of the best!!! (And the only one that helps me remember to take photos)
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Meagan Stedman
10 months
A final round of #ETS2023 photos 💕
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
This is me, coming before religious news outlets, pleading that they stop using this photo of me from the convention. It’s made it to my (not very sbc) family’s group chat, it’s gone too far 😂😂😂
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
#SBC23 is a wrap!!!! So thankful to have some of my favorite people in my favorite city!!
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
There is simply no level of exhaustion that compares to that which follows the first week of the semester
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
We’re gearing up for another year at BCM here in New Orleans!! If you have a moment: We’d welcome your prayers for the coming school year! Pray for the students of Tulane and Loyola, and for us as we try to love them well and point them to Christ during their time here 💕
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
Y’all this has been one of the coolest welcome weeks I’ve been a part of here at Tulane and Loyola! The Lord is moving so much, please continue to pray for these campuses!
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
My seminar paper is submitted and presented I’m listening to Taylor Swift to prep for her concert in a week or so It’s peak pretty spring weather in NOLA currently Life is so so good right now
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Meagan Stedman
3 months
@BethMooreLPM @andrewhebert86 @_JayAdkins Beth, no need to say sorry! I reiterate: I’m so thankful for your heart for Jesus and for you sharing your story 🩵
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Getting my PhD is so interesting because, as in every other stage of my academic career, I have to leave events early to go study. But now I’m 27, I somehow feel even lamer, and it’s a three year old’s birthday party that I’m having to leave early.
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Some days I’m overwhelmed by how hard it is to balance full time ministry and PhD work, and other days I’m hit by what a privilege it is to do these things that the Lord has so faithfully brought me to. Today is the latter, and I’m just overwhelmed by the Lord’s goodness 😭
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
#NewProfilePic the frizzy hair is just a part of life here in NOLA, okay?
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
I turned 28 on Tues in the midst of one of the coolest semesters I’ve had in ministry. Today I’m thanking God & reflecting on the privilege that this ministry is. When young Meagan was dreaming of how she might serve the Lord, He had far more in mind than she could have imagined
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Y’all Stranger things Season 4 and Obi-Wan Kenobi BOTH came out today so excuse me while lose all contact with the outside world this weekend!!!!
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
PhD students are just people that won one too many Accelerated Reader contests in elementary school
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Also shoutout to @_JayAdkins and @coreyolivier for being the couple in my list that actually have a Twitter account. But I’m thankful for y’all!
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Today I was on campus & 2 students frantically came up to us w/ cameras & said “Have you seen a squirrel? Our theory is that we can make a squirrel smile” & then ran away when we pointed them in the proper direction In case you were wondering what campus ministry in NOLA is like
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
A delightfully applicable quote from ole Herman about the dangers of “Orthodoxism”
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
Just finished @danitreweek ‘s book, and it’s such a gift to the church! She articulates such a theologically & eschatologically rich view of the role of singleness in the life of the church that challenged me theologically & personally as I live out my own single state!
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
Look what arrived today!!! @danitreweek So excited about this!
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
In light of what’s happening on many college campuses, we’re having a prayer night tonight at BCM. If you have a moment, pray for the campuses of Tulane and Loyola in New Orleans!!
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
Some of my faves entertaining us for #SBC23 @_JayAdkins @CanonAdkins @QuintAdkins
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
So so thankful for all of our local churches that partner with BCM!!!
@coreyolivier
Corey J Olivier
1 year
Today the association of churches that support our BCM work in NOLA ( @joinnoba ) showed up strong to see a preview of what @nolametrobcm has planned for Fall 23 and how they can join us! I love the local church!
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Mardi Gras season is over, but that just means that crawfish season is steadily approaching. There is truly not a bad time of year when you live in New Orleans
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
Only in NOLA would a random person ask if they can sit at a two person table in a coffee shop with you! No concept of personal space in this sweet city of mine lol
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Meagan Stedman
3 years
My little NOLA home is slowly coming together and I love it a lot 😭
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Meagan Stedman
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Just sat with a college freshman as she shared her joy in discovering the unique fulfillment that comes from helping others grow in knowledge of God, and her recognition that this is what God created her to do God is working on college campuses, and my job is an absolute gift 😭
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
One of the top reasons I’m sad to miss the convention this year is that I had to miss out on this gathering right here!
@NOBTS
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
2 years
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
Thank you @BethMooreLPM for sharing your story!! I lost count of how many times I cried throughout this book (tears of grief as well as tears in awe of God’s providence). Your story is such a gift to the church and I’m so thankful for your example of faithfulness
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Meagan Stedman
7 months
Hopping back on Twitter for the first time in ages to say that it’s officially my favorite time of year in New Orleans 😍😍
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Meagan Stedman
2 years
Ahh so thankful for this group and for @AudreyAGreeson sharing with us today!
@TheSocietyNOBTS
NOBTS Society for Women in Scholarship
2 years
We were so blessed to hear from @AudreyAGreeson at our meeting today! What an encouragement to our members to keep pursuing academic writing!
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
When God called me to New Orleans he really said “What if I called you to the best and worst place imaginable?”
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Meagan Stedman
1 year
Whoop!! We made it to the end of the semester and celebrated our seniors!!!! College ministry is full of change and transitions but I wouldn’t trade it for anything 🥺
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Meagan Stedman
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Not real tears forming in @QuintAdkins ’s eyes because he saw a three legged dog on campus
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