Category: Collegiate Ministries
Prepare For Ministry By Living Within Your Means, Campus Minister Advises
Students who believe God may be calling them to ministry should be especially mindful of establishing healthy financial habits, campus minister Bill Morrison advises, since modeling behavior after biblical admonitions
Breaking Bread and Fences
“I just didn’t understand it. They had nothing to gain by loving us. But they loved us” (Hayes 78). I recently read the book Glad You’re Here: Two Unlikely Friends Breaking
HBCU’s on Mission
A very small percentage of Southern Baptist missionaries are African American. In 2020, the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board (IMB), one of the world’s largest missionary sending agencies, reported
Edfeldt named new SBOM director of collegiate and student ministries
Georgia native Ben Edfeldt is the new director of collegiate and student ministries for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions. He was elected by trustees of the State Board
Steve Thompson to retire after 36 years in Baptist campus ministry
Steve Thompson said it wasn’t his plan to go into college ministry — it was a fluke. As a student at Mobile College (now the University of Mobile), he did summer
Nuss to retire after leading Alabama Baptist collegiate ministries for two decades
Mike Nuss doesn’t remember the name of the school where he did his six weeks of student teaching. But he does remember this — the very real feeling that it
Tuscaloosa Baptist Campus Ministries celebrates 100 years
When Nate Young walked into the Baptist Campus Ministries building April 9 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the University of Alabama’s BCM, memories of his first impression of the
The Right Time to Serve Jesus
Life is busy. College is stressful. I regularly remind students that a semester is planned stress. You can translate that “midterms and finals.” Our BCM is approaching spring break and
The Gospel-Life: Be Like Jesus
Many times I hear collegians share their distress over frustrations that prayers are not being heard or that God’s presence is no longer felt. These expressions are usually followed by