Stories tagged with: student ministry

• IMB Student Team introduces Stateside Summer initiative

  by Caroline Anderson, posted Tuesday, June 02, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

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  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- The IMB Student Team's Stateside Summer initiative empowers students to reach the nations this summer without leaving the U.S. Students will participate in missions activities, learn about unreached and unengaged people groups, connect with missionaries and share the Gospel with their family, friends and in their communities. Read More

• Student ministry leaders engage and innovate to connect with youth

  by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Thursday, March 26, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Social distancing should not mean social isolation, according to Alex Davies.

  The global pandemic COVID-19 has forced changes in how ministry leaders communicate with their congregations. It has also caused many to pause and rethink how they can effectively serve and teach while unable to meet in person. Read More

• ETCH: Helping kids, student ministries 'Thrive'

  by Aaron Wilson, posted Friday, October 11, 2019 (2 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Between wrangling toddlers, filling volunteer spots and helping teens navigate adolescence, the responsibilities that lace kids and student ministry can make for a tough gig.

  But God doesn't intend for these crucial ministries to merely survive, but to thrive, said leaders at the 2019 ETCH Family Ministry Conference held October 7-9 at the Music City Center. Read More

• Campus minister: Pray for students during winter months

  by Shannon Baker, posted Friday, January 25, 2019 (3 years ago)

  

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  PHILADELPHIA (BP) -- Some winters are harsher than others, and for university students they can be especially challenging, says Brian Musser, Baptist campus minister at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pa.

  Every January, as he prepares for the return of college students for the winter term, he finds himself praying harder and asking for more prayer for the students because of the depression and pressure that often seems to accompany the cold season.

  "More students are prone to suicide during the months of January and February," explained Musser, who noticeably feels the pressure of caring for those under his charge. He has served as a campus minister for more than 13 years and has done more student memorials during the month of February than any other time of the year. Read More

• High school grads stay in church through new outreach

  by Diana Chandler, posted Thursday, July 05, 2018 (3 years ago)

  

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  AUSTIN, Texas (BP) -- Students can remain engaged in discipleship and evangelism when moving from high school to college in a new outreach targeting pastors, parents, churches, ministries and teenagers alike.

  Campus Ministry Link (CML), the new outreach of Austin, Texas-based Campus Renewal Ministries, seeks to reverse a Gospel-engagement decline of 70 percent among high school graduates leaving home, CML Director of Partnerships John Decker told Baptist Press.

  "The stakes are really high," Decker said. "It's the largest transition they (students) will ever go through." CML connects students with ministries on any college campus in the U.S. Read More

• Rural church's student ministry called 'a God thing'

  by Dan Steinbeck/Missouri Pathway, posted Wednesday, July 19, 2017 (4 years ago)

  

  LICKING, Mo. (BP) -- The numbers don't add up, humanly speaking. Rock Springs Baptist Church averages 120 in Sunday services. Yet they run about 180 in student ministry on Wednesdays.

  "It's a God thing. It has nothing to do with me," pastor John Jordan said. "I'm just blessed to come in at the onset of this." Read More

• MEMORIAL DAY: Those who became soldiers

  by Jake McCandless, posted Friday, May 26, 2017 (5 years ago)

  Jake McCandless, reflecting back on his days in youth ministry, ponders whether he adequately prepared students who subsequently served in Iraq and Afghanistan or who would face other rigors of life that loomed ahead. Read More

• Students & a lifetime of global engagement

  by Stefani Varner , posted Monday, April 10, 2017 (5 years ago)

  As the church works to fulfill the Great Commission by making disciples of all nations, Christian leaders must ensure that mobilizing students is a major part of that plan. Read More

• T-shirt quilt: 'flood of wonderful memories'

  by Scott Barkley/Georgia's Christian Index, posted Monday, March 27, 2017 (5 years ago)

  

  Photo courtesy of Christian Index, Georgia.

  JACKSON, Ga. (BP) -- When ministers move to other positions, they never forget where they've been and the relationships built. Even without tangible items to hold and touch, those experiences stay with them.

  But the students at First Baptist Church in Jackson, Ga., didn't want to take any chances with now-former student minister Daniel Peavy. So they presented a quilt out of nine years' worth of T-shirts from retreats, camps, Vacation Bible Schools, and any other reason youth groups make a shirt. Read More

• Couple with 'no training' reaches international students

  by Lisa Falknor/Arkansas Baptist News , posted Tuesday, January 24, 2017 (5 years ago)

  

  JONESBORO, Ark. (BP) -- He remembers thinking they did not have much time. Most Japanese exchange students attending Arkansas State University in Jonesboro stay at least a year; but this girl would be here a short six months.

  Ross Burton and his wife Jane hoped for time enough to use their everyday life in America as an inroad to share the Gospel. It worked. Read More