One Life. One Mission.
I have one life with one mission: the Great Commission. This last year has been challenging on many fronts. We continue to face the challenges that COVID has brought. In the summer of 2020, many Alabama students were appointed to summer missions service. Even though their assignments were canceled due to the pandemic, I challenged […]
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 […]
Summer Missions
Rachel is a One Mission Student that has spent the last three summers serving in Mexico City. This summer, I had the chance to serve in Mexico City alongside missionaries in ministry to existing churches, college students, children, and people in parks for the third summer. Each year, we’ve worked with a local church, led […]
Serving While in College
Rachel is a One Mission Student who has spent the last three summers serving in Mexico City. When I started college, I knew what I wanted to study – Spanish – and not much else. I didn’t know what to do with it or how to serve the Lord with it. I just knew that […]
Summer Missions Report
Summer is in the rearview mirror. School has started or is about to start across the state. The heat may still be here, but everything else is a memory. As I review reports from student summer missionaries, I think of the 305 reported professions of faith – 305 lives changed by the Gospel. That memory is one […]
Following the Lord to Phoenix, AZ
Hannah Williams never planned on leaving Alabama. She never planned on going to Pursue or spending her summer in Phoenix, Arizona, through GenSend. Her plan was to spend the rest of her life in Alabama. Little did she know, the Lord had much bigger plans for her. Williams was a student at the University of […]
Alabama College Students Commissioned for Summer Missions
More than 100 students were commissioned for summer missions at One Mission Students’ annual Student Missions Commissioning Service held April 13 at Liberty Baptist Church, Chelsea. “This service is a highlight for me every year and this year was no exception,” said Chris Mills, student missions mobilizer for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions […]
Living Missionally in New Orleans
The Big Easy. Mardi Gras. Voodoo. The French Quarter. Beignets. Bourbon Street. New Orleans (NOLA) is known for all sorts of things, but church has never been one of them. Thankfully, many people have chosen to strategically plant their lives in NOLA to be the light of Christ in the darkness. From church planters to […]
Summer on Mission will Change Your Life
“One summer on mission will forever change the trajectory of your life and the lives of those you serve.” If you spend some time talking to Lauren, that is a phrase you’ll likely hear. Lauren’s past two summers serving as a student missionary have given her a unique perspective on the importance of missions and […]
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, […]