Weekly Updates – August 15 – 21, 2017

BCMs around the state of Tennessee are welcoming students to campus! Studies have shown that the friends and habits a student develops during the first 3 weeks often determine their whole college career. Please pray for the BCMs that they will be able to reach out and connect with students who need Christ.

 

BCM Welcome Weeks

Austin Peay BCM Move In Team

Prayer Walking on UT Knoxville’s Campus

Please take a minute each day and pray for these Welcome Week events.

Tuesday, August 15th

UT Health Science Center BCM – Game Night

Thursday, August 17th

LMU BCM- Cookout

Friday, August 18th

UT Chattanooga BCM- Freshmen Cookout and Game Night

Saturday, August 19th

UT Chattanooga BCM – Scavenger Hung

UT Knoxville BCM – Cookout

BCM at Vanderbilt Place – 1st Year Worship Service

Sunday, August 20th

UT Knoxville BCM – 4th Meal and 4 Square

UT Martin BCM – Freshmen Survival

Monday, August 20th

UT Martin BCM – Freshmen Survival

UT Knoxville BCM – Church Meet and Greet

UT Chattanooga BCM – Nachos and Movie Night

 

 

Weekly Updates – August 8 – 14, 2017

 

Nine Scriptural Prayers for the College Campus

• Jesus said, No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him (John 6:44). Father, draw students to yourself and cross our paths with those students whom you are drawing.
• Romans 10:17 says, …faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ. Father, may we be faithful in sharing and teaching your Word to students. As we share and as we teach, produce faith in the hearts of students.
• Paul said this about the Thessalonian response to his preaching, when you received the message about God that you heard from us, you welcomed it not as a human message, but as it truly is, the message of God, which also works effectively in you believers (1 Thessalonians 2:13). So, Father, I’m asking that students would welcome hard truths from your Word and that you would guard them from rejecting your truth. May your Word perform its work in believing students.
• Colossians 3:23 says, Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically, as something done for the Lord and not for men. Father, I pray that believing students would learn, study, work, practice, and play as unto you first—and because of that, they would also honor man.
• In Philippians 1:6, Paul confidently stated that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Father, thank you for the gospel-work you began in students last school year. I ask that you continue that work this summer, through the fall and beyond.
• Father, as Paul commands in Philippians 1:27, I pray that believing students on campus would live in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ.
• As students live in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, I also pray that the Lord’s message [would ring] out from them, not only on campus, but in every place that their faith in God goes out, so we don’t need to say anything (1 Thessalonians 1:8). Father, make students multipliers of your gospel.
• Jesus told us to pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest (Luke 10:2b). So, Father, raise up students this year to serve on short-term and long-term mission trips for the sake of the gospel among the nations.
• In Acts 2:47, the early Church was praising God and [had] favor with all the people. Father, give our campus ministry favor on campus. Help us serve and operate in a way that produces a good reputation.

Chris James serves as Boston Collegiate Coordinator for the Baptist Convention of New England where he serves as Pastor of Mill City Church & Christian Student Fellowship, a multi-site ministry reaching students at UMASS Lowell. He is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi (BA) and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (MDiv).

(From Youngadults.Lifeway.com)

East TennesseeState University  BCM Ministry

Thanking God for the ministry of the Jonathan Chapman at ETSU and all the collegiate specialists around the state of Tennessee.

Weekly Updates – August 1 – 7, 2017

Summer Missions Debriefing August 4th-5th

2017 Summer Missionaries trained at the Tennessee Summer Missions Orientation (TSMO)

Please pray for these summer missionaries as they attend the Summer Missions Debriefing. Pray for them as they begin to process all they experienced and learned this summer.

 

Summer Missions in Maine

Kerstin New, a BCM student at Austin Peay State University spent her summer serving the Lord in Maine. She had a busy summer with pray walking, soccer camp, football camp, youth retreats, and even a 4th of July parade. We are so thankful for students like Kerstin who give up their summer to serve in any way possible.

Weekly Updates – July 25 -31, 2017

Summer Missionaries Travel Home

Please pray for these summer missionaries as they say goodbye to the people to which they ministered this summer. Please pray for safe travels as they return home.

Welcome Ben Gilbreath

Baptist Collegiate Specialist

  Jackson State Community College

Why you do what you do: God has prepared me through summer camp leadership to minister to college students.I’m just doing my job and following God’s calling on my life in this season.

If you have free time,what do you do? I enjoy running, playing basketball, and working on my music project with my band.

Favorite Movie: Shawshank Redemption

Favorite Song: A Change is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke

Favorite Food:  A terrific hamburger!

Favorite Outdoor Activity: Spikeball, for sure

Favorite Quote: “Note, the more fit any person is for service commonly the less opinion he has of himself.” – Matthew Henry

Last Book you read: Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning

Coffee or Tea: At this point,tea but I am partial to both on occasion

When you need to spend one quiet hour with Jesus, where do you go? A state park or a place with beautiful scenery to be reminded of His majesty

Prayer Requests: Boldness in the Gospel, Reliance on the Spirit, and Motivation to persevere

 

 

Weekly Updates – July 18 – 23, 2017

Summertime at the BCM

Oscar’s tacos tonight! 6pm
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Bible study 7p.m. here at the B!

While most students are on summer vacation, many students take classes or work in their college town in the summer. Please pray for BCMs around the state as they continue to reach students for Christ.

 

Send TN Summer Missionaries in Italy

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We continued all of our normal weekly activities: piazza and park clean up, prayer meeting at church, book club, church services English lessons, and Bible studies .Something a little different happened on Saturday as we got to explore a nearby beach with an Italian friend. She was so sweet, and we got to learn more about her and her story. I’ve learned that the people here just need someone to care about them and sympathize with what they are walking through in life. It was such a simple day of just getting to know someone while intentionally pointing them back to Jesus. That’s something I hope I’ll always remember to do more of when I get back home.

Weekly Updates – July 11 -17, 2017

Please Pray for our TN Baptist Collegiate Specialist

 

We have an outstanding group of collegiate specialists who are passionate about reaching college students for Christ. Pleas pray as they plan and prepare for the new school year. It won’t be long before another semester begins!

Weekly Updates – July 4 – 10, 2017

 

Pray for America

Father, through trials and tears, through victories and challenges, you have guided this nation. We pray today for your hand to guide us.

Your Word has said, to whom much is given, much will be required. O Father, how you have blessed us! Our soil can feed the world. Our strength can secure justice. Our dreams can heal nations. But without You, we can do nothing.

We pray for strong churches.

We pray for America, that we’ll never forget the price that was paid, the foundation that was laid and the blessing we enjoy in this land of plenty. Give us hearts that seek to heal. We pray for strong churches in the United States that can and will do infinitely more than any law, bill or platform could ever do. May our hope be even greater than our heritage.

We pray for a spiritual awakening.

We confess our utter helplessness to impact the world eternally without the work of the Holy Spirit. For this reason, we ask you Lord, for a spiritual awakening that gives life to our land. Call us once again in this time of great challenge to honor you with great vigor. Teach us how to love one another. Help us to see injustice and right it. Help us to see their pain and with Your heart, heal them. Help us to see hopelessness and like the Samaritan, sacrifice, respond, heal and restore.

We pray for radical love.

Show us how to stop violent intentions with radical love. Lord, we look forward to the day when our swords will be beaten into plowshares. When your kingdom will come and your will shall be done in America as it is in heaven. Give us the bread of reconciliation and the cleansing water of forgiveness. For Yours is the kingdom, power and glory, forever!

In Jesus name, Amen.

UTHSC Mission Trip to Ecuador

Dental students from UT Health Science Center spent a week in Ecuador serving the people by giving much needed dental care.