FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) - The latest issue of Southwestern News magazine highlights Southwestern Seminary's five-year missions emphasis "behind the lines," or in countries where the Gospel has yet to penetrate specific regions or people groups.

President Paige Patterson announced last year that the seminary had entered into partnerships with missionaries to carry the Gospel to Siberia, Cuba and to the Nyika people group of northern Zambia. Teams of students currently are deployed in several locations across the former Soviet Union and in Zambia.

Greg Tomlin, director of public relations at Southwestern Seminary, said the goal of the magazine - the summer 2005 issue - was to make alumni, students and friends of the seminary aware of the global missions impact being made at the school. He also said the magazine was an invitation for alumni and friends to partner with the seminary in its missions emphases.