One Mission Students commissions more than 150 young adults to serve this summer
More than 150 Alabama students were commissioned April 23 to serve across the globe this summer through One Mission Students. This year’s REACH commissioning weekend, held April 22–23 at Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center in Talladega, marked the 75th anniversary of student summer missions for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions, said Chris Mills, SBOM student […]
The Right Time to Serve Jesus
Life is busy. College is stressful. I regularly remind students that a semester is planned stress. You can translate that “midterms and finals.” Our BCM is approaching spring break and a SPOTS project to Cincinnati. I already know what will happen when we return — the collective gasp as students realize that the end of […]
The Mission Isn’t Canceled – You’ve Just Been Reassigned
Summer is here. For me, this time of year brings great excitement of students serving across the globe. This year is different. This COVID-19 world has brought discouragement, questions and confusion. We have had to adjust to a new normal. Many things — such as graduations, birthday parties and summer mission journeys — have been […]
The “Mission Goes On” Wherever We Are
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. But in the midst of […]
Troy Student Ministers to Assisted Living Residents in Phoenix
This summer when Holly Walker went to do summer missions in Phoenix, she got a bonus — a chance to meet a great uncle that she had never met and a chance to share the gospel with 30 of his friends. “When I got to his assisted-living facility, I thought I was just going to […]
Football player brings Guatemala mindset back to UWA
Griffin Ricketson said that when Chris Mills came to First Baptist Church, Livingston, and did a presentation on summer missions opportunities, Ricketson didn’t know what he was doing for the summer yet. And then Mills, Alabama’s student missions strategist, mentioned the Guatemala trip. “It’s like God smacked me in the face with it,” said Ricketson, […]
Alabama Baptist students spend summer serving, sharing Christ
The day Rachel Pate met Greta, everything had gone wrong. It was Pate’s second summer serving in Mexico City, and she and her teammates were trying to invite university students to their English conversation circle. “Last year that worked really well, but this year they told us we couldn’t pass out flyers on campus,” said […]
Student missionary to continue work in New Orleans
Amber Kern didn’t pick New Orleans. But it seems God might’ve picked it for her. Last summer, she signed up for student missions and asked to be a part of the Boston team. She got assigned to New Orleans instead. “But my heart completely broke for the city,” said Kern, a student at Calhoun Community […]
Mobilize the Mobilized
One of my primary areas of ministry is mobilizing students to the nations. I love to hear stories of how students have seen God at work through their service, whether it’s across town or across the globe. Yet, there is something about those stories that lead me to believe that God wants us to use […]
Student Missions Changes Lives
Do you have experiences in life where you think, “Nothing can top this.”? And then, the next time around, that experience is topped. And the next? And the next? Sometimes I feel like a broken record when I share about what God is doing through student summer missionaries. Last year was the best. But, the […]
Paying it Forward
When a tornado hit Tuscaloosa in April 2011, the BCM at LSU immediately reached out to us. They wanted to assist with disaster relief/recovery efforts. Being so close to New Orleans, they were well experienced and equipped for disaster relief work. LSU BCM has a chainsaw/clean up and recovery unit made up of college students […]