At the 50th anniversary of the Louisiana Baptist Church Music Conference, two new scholarships were initiated. The new scholarships are in addition to the two scholarships that already exist in honor of B. B. McKinney and Carroll Lowe. The goal of the scholarship program is to assist undergraduates at Louisiana College and graduates at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary with training for church musicians.
SHREVEPORT – At the 50th anniversary of the Louisiana Baptist Church Music Conference, two new scholarships were initiated. The new scholarships are in addition to the two scholarships that already exist in honor of B. B. McKinney and Carroll Lowe. The goal of the scholarship program is to assist undergraduates at Louisiana College and graduates at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary with training for church musicians.
The annual Louisiana Baptist Church Music Conference was held Aug. 3-4 at Summer Grove Baptist Church in Shreveport.
The event celebrated 50 years of Louisiana Baptist church music ministry and was the opportunity to announce the scholarships funded by the Louisiana Baptist Singing Ministers and Women of Louisiana.
In addition to the new scholarships, former LBC Church Music State Director Carroll Lowe was recognized for his 30 years of faithful service to Louisiana Baptist churches, and for the scholarships that are given each year in his honor and in memory of B.B. McKinney.
Each year, two students at Louisiana College and two students at New Orleans Seminary are awarded two $1,000 scholarships through the B.B. McKinney/Carroll Lowe Endowment at the Louisiana Baptist Foundation. These students receive $1,000 per semester for a school year.
The new scholarships were named in honor of Teresa Thomason and Tom Lott. Thomason has served the LBC for 29 years as the LBC Keyboard consultant.
She has also served in several of Louisiana churches as pianist and, with her family, centered their lives on serving the Lord through the local church.
Tom Lott is Minister of Music at Pineville Park Baptist, Pineville.
For at least 18 years, Lott coordinated the entire Louisiana Baptist All-State Youth Choir program.
For information about the scholarships, contact Randy.Turner@LBC.org.