Stories tagged with: college ministry

• College ministry leaders work to continue outreach amid COVID-19 restrictions

  by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Friday, April 03, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- College ministry thrives in community. But the COVID-19 pandemic -- and the resulting social distancing policies, including bans on large gatherings and campus-wide shutdowns -- has in many ways severed traditional connections.

  In an uncertain time, college ministries are finding ways to not only maintain community despite distance, but also working to foster an increasingly encouraging environment for the future. Read More

• Go2 challenges college students to live on mission

  by Rebecca Manry, posted Tuesday, November 05, 2019 (3 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- "Lots of factors go into where someone pursues their career. Why wouldn't the Kingdom and mission of God be the largest of those factors?"

  That's how Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear describes the motivation behind Go2, an initiative that challenges college students to commit their first two years after graduation to serving with a church plant in the US or overseas as they begin their careers. Read More

• Greear to students: 'Follow Jesus' call'

  by Chris Doyle/Baptist Messenger, posted Thursday, August 22, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  DAVIS, Okla. -- J.D. Greear has experience preaching to college students.

  The church he pastors -- The Summit Church in Durham, N.C. -- has a reputation of drawing many collegians from the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area. The current president of the Southern Baptist Convention seemed like a natural fit to speak at Collegiate Week, which Greear did Aug. 6. This was the second consecutive year Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center in Davis, Okla., hosted Collegiate Week, Aug. 4-8. LifeWay Christian Resources sponsors the event. Read More

• College students see lives change through GenSend

  by Brandon Elrod, posted Thursday, July 25, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- A group of students in Calgary had the opportunity to share their faith with another student and saw him come to Christ. The next week, another team of students, 3,400 miles away in Puerto Rico, led a grandmother to Christ. In New York City, an unexpected subway detour led a student to a gospel conversation with a Muslim man.

  All summer long, students participating in Send Relief's GenSend program have been living "on mission" in 19 cities across North America by serving with North American Mission Board (NAMB) missionaries. Read More

• Gospel harvest plentiful at colleges, leader says

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, September 07, 2018 (5 years ago)

  

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  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (BP) -- More than 700 Tallahassee college students attended the 2018 fall semester launch of City Church U, the college ministry of City Church in Tallahassee, Fla., yielding at least five decisions for Christ.

  Likely, others will come to Christ as volunteer on-campus student leaders build community among the three colleges the ministry reaches, City Church college director Hunter Leavine told Baptist Press.

  City Church held "Launch at Langford" on the Langford Green lawn of Florida State University (FSU) Wednesday evening (Sept. 5), rallying to reap a Gospel harvest that Leavine considers plentiful. Read More

• High school grads stay in church through new outreach

  by Diana Chandler, posted Thursday, July 05, 2018 (5 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

• FIRST-PERSON: Building a bridge from high school to college

  by Morgan Owen, posted Friday, August 19, 2016 (7 years ago)

  Campus minister Morgan Owen underscores the importance of ministry to students as they transition from high school to a college campus -- a juncture in life that can be "very challenging, frightening and eye-opening." His advice: "Don't give up on college students" who comprise "such a vital population in our communities." Read More

• Collegiates embrace evangelism challenge

  by Kristen Camp, posted Tuesday, October 21, 2014 (8 years ago)

  

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  ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- College students across the United States were joined by believers of all ages as they participated in Engage24, a one-on-one evangelism initiative that challenged Christians to share the Gospel with at least one person in a 24-hour time period.

  When the development of Engage24 began in 2011, Brian Frye, the national collegiate strategist for the North American Mission Board, and his team believed that encouraging college students to share their faith required a creative approach. Read More

• College ministry 'blazing a new trail'

  by Staff, posted Thursday, October 16, 2014 (8 years ago)

  

  CARY, N.C. (BP) -- In an effort to reach more campuses and involve more churches in collegiate ministry, the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina has moved away from the traditional Baptist Campus Ministry paradigm and is engaging the state's 600,000 college students through a new Collegiate Partnerships model. Read More