2008 Archives
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TCU students focus on giving during spring break
Posted: 3/20/08
Texas Christian University Baptist Student Ministries students Alex Pierce, Tracie Chambers, Valerie Hannon and Richard Thomas prepare hundreds of pounds of vegetables for the Meals on Wheels program in Houston. • See Complete Spring Break Ministry Coverage Here TCU students focus on
giving during spring breakHOUSTON—While many college students went looking for what they can get during spring break, a group of Texas Christian University Baptist Student Ministries students looked to give.
TCU student Alex Pierce. The team of four invested their time in ministry projects and in people throughout the Houston area.
They worked with several groups that helped to provide food to hungry residents. At the End Hunger Network, they prepared hundreds of pounds of vegetables used by Meals on Wheels and other food-assistance programs.
At the Gano Street Baptist Mission Center, they stocked the food pantry and bagged and distributed food to many needy families. They also spent afternoons working with the teen and pre-teen ministries at Gano Street.
03/28/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Texas State students minister in Mexico
Posted: 3/20/08
Students work to repair the driveway at Matamoros Children’s Home in Matamoros, Mexico. Texas State students minister in Mexico
By Josh Morgan
Texas State University
MATAMOROS, Mexico—Each spring break, the border towns of Mexico are flooded with American students searching for a week of freedom.
This year, a group from Texas visited Matamoros to share a different type of freedom.
A Texas State University student hugs a child at the Matamoros Children’s Home in Mexico.
• Watch Video Reports From Spring Break Ministry• See Complete Spring Break Ministry Coverage Here A 21-member team from Texas State University stayed at the Matamoros Children’s Home, where they ministered to the 150 children and also took part in maintenance of the home, including extending the driveway.
The team also provided an afternoon children’s outreach for a church and its surrounding neighborhood 45 minutes away from the home.
03/28/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Aggie BSM students minister at ‘Mardis Gras of the North’
Posted: 3/28/08
A missions team from the BSM at Texas A&M University debarks from a plane in Alaska where they worked at the Iditarod. • See Complete Spring Break Ministry Coverage Here Aggie BSM students minister
at ‘Mardis Gras of the North’By John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
NOME, Ala.—Each spring, racers pack their sleds and hook up teams of dogs to challenge the Alaskan landscape as they race more than 1,150 miles for the Iditarod championship.
This year, a little bit of Texas hospitality was waiting for them at the finish line.
03/28/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Baylor students serve in Louisiana & New York, collect gift cards for Union
Posted: 3/28/08
Baylor volunteers (left to right) Christina Jeffrey (in green shirt), a sophomore psychology major from Houston; Clif Mouser, BSM director at Baylor; Melissa Merritt (in Baylor sweatshirt), a junior early childhood education major from Austin; and Kassy Morishige (in yellow shirt), a sophomore communication sciences and disorders major from Lihue, Hawaii, along with two students from Texas A&M, helped build a house for one of the families affected by Hurricane Katrina in Plaquemine’s Parish, south of New Orleans. (Photos by Clif Mouser/Baylor BSM) • See Complete Spring Break Ministry Coverage Here Baylor students serve in Louisiana
& New York, collect gift cards for UnionBy Rebekah Hardage
Baylor University
WACO—For most college students, spring break is a chance to head to the beach or the slopes for a little fun and relaxation away from the classroom. But hundreds of Baylor University students used their mid-March vacation as an opportunity to serve others through various mission trips around the United States.
Baylor’s Baptist Student Ministries sponsored a trip to South Louisiana to help rebuild homes for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Thirty-one students and staff headed to Plaquemine’s Parish, located just south of New Orleans, to share the love of Christ through both word and deed.
Shanna Ware of Round Rock brought in several hundred dollars worth of gift cards for Baylor’s “United for Union” drive to help meet the immediate needs of Union University students affected by a Feb. 5 tornado.
(Baylor Photo)03/28/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Beach Reach volunteers make positive impact on South Padre
Posted: 3/28/08
Buddy Young (left), Baptist Student Ministries director at West Texas A&M University, baptizes a new Christian in the Gulf of Mexico during Beach Reach. (Photos by John Hall/BGCT) Beach Reach volunteers make
positive impact on South PadreBy Kaitlin Chapman
Texas Baptist Communications
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND—During Spring Break, more than 50,000 college students from across the nation travel to South Padre Island to party, drink incredible amounts of alcohol, have sex and indulge in worldly passions.
But this spring break, 375 Christian students came from universities and colleges from Texas, Arizona, Arkansas, Minnesota, and Missouri to bring the light of the gospel into that darkness.
A Beach Reach volunteer from the Baptist Student Ministries at Texas Tech works the phones during the evangelistic outreach on South Padre Island. • See Complete Spring Break Ministry Coverage Here 03/28/2008 - By John Rutledge
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DBU students have fun in the sun, building homes in Louisiana and Georgia
Posted: 3/28/08
DBU volunteers (left to right) Esura Jeong, DBU Dean of Spiritual Life Jay Harley, Ben King; Jacob Seif, Associate Director of Spiritual Life Justin Gandy and Mike Rivas put up a fence in New Orleans. (Photos by Carole Covey) DBU students have fun in the sun,
building homes in Louisiana and GeorgiaWhile some college students got a head start on their summer tans by spending spring break at the beach, 33 DBU students got plenty of sun exposure of their own, building homes in southern Louisiana and in Georgia.
One DBU team traveled to Columbus, Ga., to take part in Habitat for Humanity Collegiate Challenge Week. Others headed to New Orleans, where DBU students had helped in building and cleaning up two years before.
Dallas Baptist University freshman Jacob Seif prays over one of the condemned houses in the ninth ward of New Orleans. • See Complete Spring Break Ministry Coverage Here Although over two years have passed since Hurricane Katrina, many New Orleans residents still are picking up the pieces of their lives. Members of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church have been busy working to rebuild both their community and their house of worship.
In the spring of 2006, DBU students headed to New Orleans to help in the early stages of the clean-up effort. Led in part by Chip Luter—son of Franklin Avenue Pastor Fred Luter—DBU students cleared debris and tore down condemned houses to make way for new construction.
03/28/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Harlingen church trains champs during spring break
Posted: 3/28/08
More than 400 children attended First Baptist Church in
Harlingen's Champs Camp, which uses sports to share Christ's love. (Photos by John Hall/BGCT)• See Complete Spring Break Ministry Coverage Here Harlingen church trains
champs during spring breakBy John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
HARLINGEN—To become an athletic champion, a person must train hard every day in preparation for the day he or she can win a gold medal. To win an eternal gold medal, Craig Blakeslee of First Baptist Church in Harlingen believes people simply need to follow Jesus.
That’s what the church has taught children the past 10 years during its annual spring break Champs Camp. This year, more than 430 children participated in the camp, which includes football, golf, softball, karate, soccer, basketball and gymnastics.
03/28/2008 - By John Rutledge
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HBU students drill well for Nicaraguan villagers
Posted: 3/28/08
Houston Baptist University students (left to right) Cameron King and Andrew Miller, along with Danny Miller, director of student ministries, work in Nicaragua on a drilling team. • See Complete Spring Break Ministry Coverage Here HBU students drill well for Nicaraguan villagers
By Maria Cristina del Canto
Houston Baptist University
Children of San Pedro, Nicaragua, stood barefoot and in tattered clothes in front of a tin schoolhouse as the sweltering heat ferociously beat down upon them. The first things student missionaries from Houston Baptist University noticed were the children’s brilliant smiles and the undeniable twinkle in their dark eyes as they rushed toward them, a whirlwind of emotions, before wrapping tiny arms around the students in an ecstatic embrace.
One young girl in particular stood out. Her curious, brooding eyes, overflowing with hope and her beaming face belied the fact that she did not have clean drinking water or even a pair of shoes.
Houston Baptist University students Brittany Larotta, freshman (woman with bandana on head), Valerie Jones, senior (woman in blue shirt distributing food), Leah Davis, senior (woman with yellow shirt on truck), Seth Miller, freshman (man with white shirt on truck, sitting above the orange cooler) 03/28/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Rice students serve in San Antonio over spring break
Posted: 3/28/08
Members of the Rice University San Antonio mission team were (left to right) Andy Dennis, James Deyerle, Saneliso Masuku, Charles Reed, Caitlin Thomas, Brian Benjamin, Laura Rabalais, John Elias, Avery Cate, Anne Hierholzer, Genny Lozier, Sean Wo and Jon Allison. (Photos courtesy of Laura Rabalais) • See Complete Spring Break Ministry Coverage Here Rice students serve in
San Antonio over spring breakBrian Benjamin, a sophomore at Rice University, gives a boy a ride on his shoulders. Thirteen students from the Baptist Student Ministries at Rice University spent spring break ministering in inner-city San Antonio.
Students built relationships with people who represented the fourth generation of their family living in public housing on San Antonio’s west side.
Working with the Urban Connection ministry, students distributed food from the food pantry, cleaned a neighborhood, organized space used for an after-school program and cleaned homes of elderly residents.
At an after-school program arranged by Urban Connection, Rice students helped children and young teens with homework and gave individual attention to students who needed tutoring. After tutoring, students were able to conduct a kids club where each student heard parables of Jesus and made crafts related to the stories.
03/28/2008 - By John Rutledge
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UNT student missionaries show God’s love to Mexican orphans
Posted: 3/28/08
Jillian Daniels from the University of North Texas plays with a group in children in Mexico. • See Complete Spring Break Ministry Coverage Here UNT student missionaries show
God’s love to Mexican orphansBy Jillian Daniels
University of North Texas
A college girl approached two young boys fighting over a soccer ball in the Mexico orphanage she was visiting, asking why they weren’t sharing.
“I don’t want to share because he doesn’t ever give me anything,” one answered.
03/28/2008 - By John Rutledge
