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8 Oct
Ministry helps collegians continue in faith
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)—Alana Blackwell was a junior in high school when a friend at church invited her to hang out with a group of Baptist college students at Louisiana State University. Blackwell, a future LSU Tiger herself, jumped at the opportunity to build relationships with the collegians.
3 Oct
Summer camp—Vietnamese-style
Photo by Karen Willoughby
BATON ROUGE, La. (BP)—More than 130 Vietnamese teens from several states converged on Vietnamese Hope Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, La., for their annual sports-and-spirituality camp in mid-July.
“We just want to see kids turning, preparing, fighting the sin in their lives so they can pursue godliness; that’s it,” said Vinh Duong.
30 Sep
Students See Missions in Africa
It’s one of those moments where you can almost hear crickets chirping. Two International Mission Board short-term missionaries are trying to get a room full of high school students to open up about issues they face at home.
10 Sep
High school football player leads team to higher moral standard
Nate Richards was tired of seeing his football teammates damaging themselves and the team by engaging in dangerous behavior.
Specifically, Richards was tired of the drug and alcohol use on the weekends. Though not rampant, it was an issue nonetheless.
“There’s always been an element of it,” Richards said. “I thought I would stop it.”
27 Aug
In Athens, Greece, students work, worship & witness
ATHENS, Greece (BP)—Tourists snap pictures and shoot video as 60 International World Changers hold an impromptu praise and worship service atop Mars Hill in Athens, Greece. As the students’ voices carry across the crowd, an Iranian man on the fringes presses forward to ask for a copy of the song’s lyrics.
“Do you understand what is going on?” asks Jerry Johnson, Baptist Collegiate Ministries senior minister at Georgia Southern University.
“Yes, you are Christians,” the man replies.
25 Aug
Criswell College students spread gospel
BROWNSVILLE—For the third consecutive year, Criswell College sent students to the border town of Brownsville to prayer-walk, witness, distribute tracts, and help the city’s First Baptist Church in a weeklong Vacation Bible School, held July 13-18.
The 11-student team shared the gospel on the street more than 300 times, and their efforts during the VBS helped bring 27 children to faith in Christ from the 243 enrolled.
21 Aug
Youth make connection in Senegal
Melissa Gardner, 17, prays in Dakar, Senegal.
SENEGAL, West Africa (BP)—International World Changers is an International Mission Board program that sends students on missions trips around the world each year. This IWC trip sent college and high school students to Senegal high schools to reach their peers by building relationships and handing out books and DVDs about Jesus.
14 Aug
With GPS, they bike into Africa’s bush
SENEGAL, West Africa (BP)—Their bikes lie nearby as the short-term missionaries sleep in their tents. Beside them are enough supplies to last a week in the African bush -– cans of Spam for when they can’t find local food and patches for their tires when they spring a leak.
And their Bibles -– reminders of why they’re here in the first place.
22 Jul
Divine Inheritance
A pure an undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans… James 1:27
Originally from Tennessee, Jennifer has traveled a long, winding road during her 27 years of life, full of joyous moments and some unexpected bumps. Only she can fully explain the miracle of how she got to where she is now and how she came to work for Divine Inheritance.
28 May
Jessie Miller interns with Jars of Clay’s Blood:Water Mission
In 2002, Dan Haseltin, Jars of Clay’s lead singer, visited Africa and was changed forever. He saw poverty, physical and social suffering, and disease that “shook him, challenged him, and changed him.” … He and his bandmates began Blood:Water Mission—an organization committed to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic and build clean wells, support medical facilities caring for the sick, and fight poverty, justice, and oppression—all in Africa. The band’s target audience is the church and young people, so they saw an opportunity to spread the word and call the church to action… .
Jessie was in Jars of Clay’s target audience before she came on board. At Passion 2007, she visited the “Do Something Now” booth, and felt a tug toward Africa.
