Student Dies During Missions Training Program at Spurgeon College

Student dies during missions training program at Spurgeon College

Benjamin Speidel, an incoming student at Spurgeon College, the undergraduate school at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, died Saturday while hiking during an intensive missions training program. He was 20.

Spurgeon College, family mourn hiking death of missions student

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College student dies on hike with Southern Baptist missionary training program

A 20-year-old college student died Saturday during a missionary training exercise run by Spurgeon College’s controversial Fusion program, which some have called extreme. Sheriff’s deputies and fire department paramedics responded to an emergency call at 7:40 p.m. at Wyandotte County Lake, about 15 miles west of Spurgeon’s Kansas City, Kansas, campus. Ben Speidel, an incoming […]

Spurgeon College Student Dies During Missions Training

An incoming Spurgeon College student died after collapsing during missions training, leaving his family, classmates and two Kansas City-area Christian institutions mourning as the fall term begins. Benjamin “Ben” Speidel collapsed Saturday, Aug. 15, during the college’s missions training week and died after being taken to a hospital, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary announced Wednesday. The school did not disclose Speidel’s age, the locat…