NEW ORLEANS (BP) - Akin to seminary President Chuck Kelley's belief that missions involvement will enrich the teaching of every professor, a new grant from a Florida church will help send NOBTS faculty members on international mission trips.

Ted Traylor, pastor of Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, presented the first Jeff Rousseau Seminary Missions Grant check to New Orleans Seminary during an April 12 chapel service.

The grant, named for Olive's late former pastor, will provide funds for one NOBTS faculty member and spouse to participate in an international missions trip each year. The church started a missionary offering several years ago and the mission committee voted to use a portion of the funds to start the annual grant.

Rousseau pastored Olive Baptist Church for 17 years. After leaving in 1971, Rousseau served in South Korea and in Portland, Ore. His last ministry stop was in Salt Lake City where he served as a church planter.

After retiring, Rousseau and his wife, Audrey, returned to Pensacola. Olive Baptist named him pastor emeritus. Rousseau died five years ago.