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 […]