{"id":25297,"date":"2017-08-15T06:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T11:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcpathway.local\/?p=25297"},"modified":"2017-08-11T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T19:50:17","slug":"collegiate-missionaries-reach-world-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcpathway.com\/2017\/08\/15\/collegiate-missionaries-reach-world-generations\/","title":{"rendered":"Collegiate missionaries reach world, generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JEFFERSON CITY \u2013 Missionaries supported by Missouri Baptist churches are making disciples and developing leaders on more than one-third of the state\u2019s college campuses, and they aim to expand their outreach to every campus in Missouri within the next 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make disciples on those campuses,\u201d said Gene Austin, who oversees the work of collegiate missionaries throughout the state on behalf of the Missouri Baptist Convention. \u201cWe want to have a presence on each campus because there is a huge need for the gospel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, among the more than 350,000 college students in the state, the need for gospel outreach is glaring. According to the MBC\u2019s collegiate ministry webpage (mbcollegiate.org):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than one-third of Millennials, the generation in college now, say they are unattached to any faith;<\/li>\n<li>One out of every six Missouri college students has contemplated suicide during the past year, and one out of every 50 students has actually committed suicide;<\/li>\n<li>In 2014, 14.6 percent of Missouri college students claimed to have been sexually assaulted during the previous year;<\/li>\n<li>And more than half of college professors view evangelical Christian students unfavorably.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Expanding campus outreach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For this reason, Missouri Baptists have sent campus missionaries to 22 of Missouri\u2019s colleges and universities. But, still, this leaves 35 campuses and more than 128,000 college students without a gospel witness from an MBC collegiate ministry.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Austin said that the MBC and its collegiate missionaries are striving to expand their outreach to all of Missouri\u2019s campuses. They are doing this in a number of ways, he said, by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Encouraging and equipping MBC campus missionaries to raise up leaders to do campus ministry at other colleges;<\/li>\n<li>Developing feasible models and resources to help Missouri Baptist churches reach into college campuses in their own communities;<\/li>\n<li>Helping college students understand that church membership is an important aspect of Christian discipleship;<\/li>\n<li>And developing leaders from Missouri Baptist churches who want to invest in college students, even if they can\u2019t do so on a full-time basis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Train and send<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Already, some MBC campus missionaries have successfully trained and sent out students to work on other campuses in the state, Austin said.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Jason Yarnell, a campus minister at Northwest Missouri State University, equipped two of his students. As a result, one of them, Travis Hamm, serves as a campus missionary at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and another, Andrew Abbott, serves as a campus missionary at Southeast Missouri State University.<\/p>\n<p>Yarnell said that a passion for making disciples and developing leaders is the heart of his ministry. Only by equipping students to make an impact can Missouri Baptists reach the state\u2019s college campuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur strategy for reaching the campus is to raise up disciples,\u201d Yarnell said. \u201cI want them to truly understand the gospel and go out and turn the campus upside down. They do things that I never would have thought of. They talk to people that I could never speak with. They have an audience that I will never have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abbott said that, through ministry to college students, Missouri Baptists have an opportunity to reach the next generation \u201cat a pivotal juncture in life,\u201d when they\u2019re trying to decide what they truly believe and when they\u2019re making decisions that will impact them for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe college campus,\u201d he said, \u201cis really a preview, a microcosm, of what the greater population will be 10 years down the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Global impact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, through college ministry, Missouri Baptists have an opportunity to make a global impact. Roughly 24,000 international students are currently coming to Missouri to study on college and university campuses, many of whom will return to their countries to become leaders in business and government.<\/p>\n<p>This includes students from the \u201c10\/40 window,\u201d that region of the world with the least access to the gospel, according to Ed Moncada, who oversees international student ministry around the state for the MBC. Even international students from nations closed to the gospel are open to hearing about God\u2019s love when Christians simply help them adjust to and learn about American life and culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt becomes a window for world outreach,\u201d Moncada said.<\/p>\n<p>And this window for ministry is open to Missouri Baptist campus missionaries and the students they\u2019re training because of the prayer, support and the generous giving of Missouri Baptist churches through the Cooperative Program.<\/p>\n<p>The Cooperative Program (CP) is the funding process Southern Baptists have used since 1925 to support missions and evangelism at the state, national, and international levels. Through CP, the mission of one church is extended to ministries that reach the lost, hungry, and hurting.<\/p>\n<p>According to Austin, CP helps to fund campus missionaries and allows the MBC to equip them more fully for ministry. Because of the cooperative giving of Missouri Baptists, campus missionaries are able to reach not only the next generation, but also the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missionaries supported by Missouri Baptist churches are making disciples on more than one-third of the state\u2019s college campuses, and they aim to expand their outreach to every campus within the next 10 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