Kelley receives Mitchell Award
Dr. Benji Kelley, left, received the Virgil A. Mitchell Excellence in Pastoral Ministry award during Trustees chapel April 5 at Newton Hobson Chapel on Southern Wesleyan University’s campus in Central. The award was presented by Mitchell’s widow, Mary Mitchell, right.
Kelley is the senior pastor of Newhope Church, a fast-growing congregation that meets on multiple campuses in the Raleigh-Durham area in North Carolina. The purpose of the Mitchell Award is to encourage excellence in ministry, enhance the importance of pastoral ministry, to recognize service to the church and support of Southern Wesleyan University, to emphasize the value of ministerial training offered at Southern Wesleyan University and to exalt the greatest preacher of them all – the Lord Jesus Christ.