The time between high school graduation and Christmas is challenging and fun — and potentially dangerous, Mike Nuss said.

Rising college freshmen “will set patterns, establish relationships, try out new freedoms and find out just how firm their foundation of faith really is — or isn’t,” said Nuss, director of the office of collegiate and student ministries for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM).

The beginning is critical, said Jerrod Brown, Baptist campus minister for the University of South Alabama in Mobile. “Freshmen are making life decisions and faith decisions that will affect a lifetime during the first few weeks of the semester.” (continued…)

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