Collegiate Ministry

Ethan Hollis, Stephen F. Austin (SFA) State University graduate and active member of First Baptist Church (FBC) Nacogdoches, grew up with inconsistent attendance in church and little understanding of the gospel, but after a friend invited him to youth group, he became more engaged with both.  

Inspired by the students’ eagerness to engage, FBC Clarendon began holding a college-led Sunday morning once a semester, where the students get an opportunity to take ownership of their gifts and abilities in ministry, ranging from greeting to preaching.

Sixteen years ago, Mark Lindsey, lead pastor at First Baptist Church Big Spring, and his wife Sherry, were new residents in Big Spring, home to a “bible college ministry and a two-year college,” but no established church. Their neighbor, whose late husband happened to be a basketball coach at Howard College in the 1950s and 1960s, encouraged them to get “involved with basketball and things at the college,” as she was ministering to the athletes at the time. 

“God burnt a passion in me that week… to serve people, to share the hope that I found in Christ, the joy I found in Christ with other people. And really the work that started in my heart like 20 something years ago during that mission trip, it’s never stopped,” - Eric Hunter, WTAMU BSM director

“...it comes first from spending time with Jesus, the Word, worshiping, being in community and from that place of being filled, we get to pour out into other people.”

"All the students here are benefactors of you and your legacy and your faithfulness in BSM over the decades. And as we see God move, a lot of it is because of your prayers and your support.” -Eric Hunter, director of BSM at WTAMU.

The Texas Baptist Missions Foundation announced Tuesday that the Mabee Foundation has awarded a $1.3 million Challenge Grant toward the construction of the new Baptist Student Ministry Center at Baylor University.

“As you encounter all the different philosophies and religions there are in all the world, you don’t need to apologize that you represent the one true living God of the universe who created us all.”

The Baptist Student Ministry has been reaching students on UTMB’s campus since the 1950s, and we continue to be a safe place for students to be supported, cared for and encouraged spiritually.

Go Now Missions, a ministry of Texas Baptists that mobilizes university students to share the love of Christ around the world, has appointed 100 student missionaries to serve and share the gospel during Christmas break.

“Ministry on Baylor’s campus is growing. It’s growing through the BSM and through the unity of the local churches,” Will Bowden, director of Baylor University’s Baptist Student Ministry (BSM), said.

“It was buzzing, it was loud, and the students were responding really well to the worship and the message,”

"I’m so grateful I have the opportunity to feel this.”

My heart broke. They were dying and had never even heard of the hope found in Jesus Christ.