When she was 15 years old and in the ninth grade, Claudia Hixon attended her first Super Summer Alabama, a week-long leadership and discipleship camp organized by the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions.

The experience changed her life.

“Super Summer was where the Lord began to reveal Himself to me in a way that had never happened before. It was three years later at Super Summer where the Lord called me into full-time ministry,” Hixon said.

Hixon, student ministry associate at Valleydale Church in Birmingham, was part of a team of over 100 Alabama Baptist ministry leaders from across the state who gathered on the University of Mobile campus July 8–12 for Super Summer Alabama 2024.

Their focus — to create a unique experience that challenges and motivates students in grades 8–12 to dig deeper into the Word of God and be the leader God has called them to be.

‘Hearts burning for Christ’

Daniel Atkins, senior pastor at Taylor Road Baptist Church in Montgomery and a 2007 alumnus of the University of Mobile, served as camp pastor for Super Summer Alabama 2024.

“My prayer for students this week is that they would love the Word of God and love the Son of God,” Atkins said. Along with Josh Meadows, student ministry strategist for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions and Super Summer camp director, Atkins planned and prayed for the 225 students from 32 churches across the state – including one church from Louisiana – converging on the Alabama Baptist university campus.

“Daniel and I have been praying for months now that the students’ hearts would burn for Christ, that they would love Jesus and His Word in a way they never have before,” Meadows said.

Each morning, students took classes on topics ranging from apologetics to discipleship. They learned how Christians should lead in the marketplace and in faith-based ministries. They studied the doctrine of the church, the doctrine of the holy spirit, the doctrine of the trinity and the doctrine of salvation.

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This article was originally published at TheAlabamaBaptist.org.