Eight students with ties to South Carolina graduated from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in the winter commencement ceremony. Graduates included Ian Andrew Galloway, M.Div.; Cory Blake Cromer, M.Div.; Jason David Williamson, M.A. in missiology; Sean H. McElrath, M.A. in missiology; Kevin Brian Miller, M.A. in Christian education; Brian Winton Powell, doctor of philosophy; Kelly Nathaniel Hayes, doctor of philosophy; and Donald Harvey Davis, doctor of philosophy.