Articles by Jessica King

Four years after taking her first van ride as a spring breaker, Mackenzie Owens returned to South Padre Island  to proclaim the good news to those who are living the life she once lived. 

Last week, about 1,000 BSM students used their spring break to serve in Brownwood, McAllen, Honduras, San Antonio, Galveston and South Padre Island (Beach Reach).

Last month, Texas Baptists Go Now Missions appointed 175 students to serve as Summer, Impact and Fall Semester missionaries. These students come from 41 campuses across Texas and will serve alongside ministries in the state, as well as around the U.S. and globe.

200 students commissioned for summer missions; SHSU junior to serve with Go Now missions following her mother’s service “over 20 years ago.”

“As you encounter all the different philosophies and religions there are in all the world, you don’t need to apologize that you represent the one true living God of the universe who created us all.”

Go Now Missions, a ministry of Texas Baptists that mobilizes university students to share the love of Christ around the world, has appointed 100 student missionaries to serve and share the gospel during Christmas break.

“We have hope grounded in Christ and great anticipation in all that God will do in [the students’] lives and through them and the teams they are a part of,”

Learn how a mission trip in 1946 turned into 75 years of college students on mission.

“We want to equip students with how to learn how to pray. That’s where the growth is.”

“The connections they have made with local ministries and local churches has been amazing.”