Stories tagged with: collegiate ministry

• BCM leaders tell dispersed students 'Mission goes on'

  by Grace Thornton/The Alabama Baptist, posted Tuesday, May 19, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- Steve Thompson said he never thought the day would come when he heard his students say they were sick of their computer screens. But at Auburn University, where Thompson serves as Baptist campus minister, that's the sentiment now -- and students all across the state are right there with them. Read More

• University of Mobile helps revitalize nearby church

  by Amber Kelley, posted Wednesday, October 30, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  MOBILE, Ala. (BP) -- Reid Guy, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Chickasaw, Ala., doesn't want to be a statistic.

  "Statistics show that 100 churches across our country close their doors every week," he said. "And we don't think God is ready for us to be one of those 100." Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: The collegiate mission field

  by Adam Groza, posted Tuesday, September 24, 2019 (4 years ago)

  Adam Groza writes about a mission field likely in your town or city. "You may even drive by one on your way to work," he writes, noting that college campuses are "a mission field ripe for harvest." Read More

• 3 Mass. collegians seek to impact peers for Christ

  by Stephen Sargent, posted Thursday, August 29, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  BRIDGEWATER, Mass. (BP) -- College sophomore Victoria Williams saw God change her life a year ago just before entering Bridgewater State University, the second-largest state school in Massachusetts.

  Victoria's best friend, Bayleigh Westerlund, had invited her to summer camp. Though Victoria spent countless hours in a Catholic pew growing up, it was first time she ever felt a significant connection with God. Read More

• 29 years in campus ministry 'kept an old man young'

  by Joe Westbury/Christian Index, posted Monday, December 17, 2018 (5 years ago)

  

  Photo by Joe Westbury/Christian Index

  ATHENS, Ga. (BP) -- As a young man, Franklin Scott sensed a strong call to ministry but clearly knew it wouldn't be in the pastorate.

  "But back in those days being a pastor was about the only way to respond," he says on the eve of his Dec. 31 retirement after 29 years in campus ministry at the University of Georgia.

  He chuckles as he remembers his frustration at the apparently limited vocational options.

  Pastor? No clear presence of oratory skills and definitely not a public speaker; a self-described "extreme introvert."

  Minister of music? Couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. Read More

• 800 enter 'adulting' from Kansas collegiate ministry

  by Sue Sprenkle, posted Tuesday, November 13, 2018 (5 years ago)

  

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  HAYS, Kan. (BP) -- This is probably the last thing any of Bethany Wood's college friends would guess she's doing in her "grown up" years: mother of five, foster parent, direct sales business owner, photographer, arts council, community Bible study, 4-H and a lay leader in her local church.

  "That's a lot of adulting," Wood jokes. She didn't enter Fort Hays State University heading this direction. "I started living a life that was not pleasing to my Savior."

  Wood grew up in a Christian home. But like many who go off to college, she got swept up in parties and pushing the limits of her early adulthood at the Kansas university, 180 miles west-northwest of Wichita. Read More

• Collegiate ministers get 'fresh take' at LifeWay summit

  by David Roach, posted Friday, May 04, 2018 (6 years ago)

  

  Photo by David Roach

  HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- A triennial gathering involving hundreds of collegiate ministry workers "inspires us to go back to our campus with new ideas and a fresh take on things," said Arkansas campus minister Dawn Reed.

  That's why she returned to LifeWay Christian Resources' Collegiate Summit, hosted this year May 2-4 by First Baptist Church in Hendersonville, Tenn.

  Collegiate Summit featured plenary addresses, networking opportunities and breakout sessions on issues facing college ministers. Among the conference's sponsors were the International Mission Board, the North American Mission Board's Send Relief, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Samaritan's Purse. Read More

• 'Under attack': Campus ministries see changes ahead

  by David Roach, posted Thursday, March 08, 2018 (6 years ago)

  

  Photo from Vanderbilt University

  DETROIT (BP) -- With Wayne State, Harvard and the University of Iowa among the latest universities to take action against Christian ministries on campus, some Baptist state convention leaders say Baptist campus ministry may be forced to shift its methods as religious liberty is constricted.

  "Our religious liberty and our opportunity to share as openly as we have in the past" at colleges and universities "is under attack," said Tim Patterson, executive director of the Baptist State Convention of Michigan, where Wayne State is located. Baptists "have to rethink how we do ministry on campus because the campus has changed." Read More

• Deaf-friendly musical rallies collegiate ministry

  by Adam Wynn, posted Monday, August 21, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

  Photo by Stephen Drane

  ATHENS, Ga. (BP) -- The intended audience for "No Place Like Home" came to see the performers speak with their hands in a summer musical production by the Baptist Collegiate Ministries at the University of Georgia.

  Everything performed on stage was in American Sign Language, noted Haley Beach, student leader of the BCM's deaf ministry and one of the directors of the show along with Amara Ede and Jami Dillard.

  The BCM's newly-formed ministry already had formed some bonds with the deaf community at the university and in Athens, with this summer's play only increasing the reach. Read More

• On-campus H2O ministry lifts collegians' trajectory

  by Grace Thornton, posted Tuesday, March 28, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

  BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BP) -- Chad Frank said he grew up like many others -- he was born into a moral home and quickly learned there were advantages to being good. He worked hard and became an Eagle Scout, captain of the basketball team and valedictorian of his senior class.

  Then he got to Bowling Green State University in Ohio and instantly felt like all those advantages disappeared. Read More