Like many people, Ryan Johnson says Juneteenth wasn’t on his radar several years ago. But now that he knows more about it, he sees it as an opportunity to show the gospel by loving others and working toward Christian unity.
Chris Mills, student missions mobilizer for SBOM, said he is encouraged more and more each year after seeing the number of young people attending REACH, an event dedicated to commissioning new missionaries to reach the ends of the earth.
Helping new college students connect with BCM is like passing the baton between relay runners. It’s leading students to the “next step in their walk with Christ,” says UNA campus minister Matt Daniels.
The Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions called two new state missionaries in mid-May — Bryan Blass, who will serve as director of the office of LeaderCare, and Kennedi Kruger, who will serve as a Baptist campus minister for Auburn.
As Shannon Hughes begins her new role as BCM campus minister at JSU, she says her past ministry experience and personal history has better prepared her to help college students learn to rely on the Lord in all things.
New grants have helped purchase a trailer that can serve as a refrigerator and freezer for the Rolling Food Pantry, a bus designed to provide fresh food to people in Montgomery’s River Region.