More than 500 college students and leaders from across the state gathered at Taylor Road Baptist Church, Montgomery, for the seventh biennial Collegiate Evangelism Conference (CEC) on Feb. 10–11.
The Office of Collegiate and Student Ministries at the State Board of Missions created an environment where students who are involved in Baptist Collegiate Ministries or church college groups “are challenged to be bold in their faith and to recognize that they’re on a campus where people from all over the world are (attending),” said Chris Mills, an associate in the collegiate office.
“I believe college students have one of the most unique missions fields of all Alabama Baptists,” Mills said. And that’s just what the CEC aims to expose to the students.
This year’s conference theme — One Message: The Gospel — was played out in worship led by Shane & Shane; messages from Mike Satterfield, of Field of Grace Ministries; speaker Michael Kelley, director of discipleship at LifeWay Resources and about 15 break-out sessions with topics ranging from apologetics to social media and the gospel to evangelism for the introvert.
At CEC’s close, students filled out commitment cards to pursue holiness, pray, care and share the gospel with those around them and placed the cards on the altar.
Mills said he heard several positive remarks about the conference with most students saying, “Thank you. CEC really opened my eyes to a particular opportunity in my life to share the gospel.”
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