Collegiate Ministry

Texas Baptist Mission Foundation holds groundbreaking ceremony for new Baylor BSM building

Sep 11, 2025

In July, the Texas Baptist Missions Foundation (TBMF) announced that it had officially met the requirements of the Mabee Foundation Challenge Grant, awarded in July 2024, toward the construction of the new Baptist Student Ministry (BSM) building at Baylor University.Wednesday, Sept. 10, TBMF held a groundbreaking ceremony for the new BSM building. 

University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley BSM partners with Dallas church to offer career guidance for college students

Sep 2, 2025

UTRGV BSM partners with Park Cities Baptist Church to host “Career Coaching,” to offer career guidance, discuss “the intersection of entrepreneurship and faith.”

347 Go Now student missionaries to serve “on co-mission with God” this summer

May 30, 2025

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

UTA BSM sees 17 salvations, including one BSM student, serving refugees

Apr 1, 2025

UTA BSM serves refugees in San Antonio over spring break and sees 17 accept Jesus, including one of their own.

Beach Reach sees 246 accept Christ; God’s continued faithfulness and sovereignty

Mar 26, 2025

Beach Reach sees 246 accept Christ, 87 baptized; sees God’s faithfulness, sovereignty and stays alert for gospel opportunities.

SFA graduate talks coming to Christ through BSM and pursuing call to vocational ministry

Jan 6, 2025

Ethan Hollis, Stephen F. Austin (SFA) State University graduate and active member of First Baptist Church (FBC) Nacogdoches, grew up with inconsistent attendance in church and little understanding of the gospel, but after a friend invited him to youth group, he became more engaged with both.  

FBC Clarendon disciples community college students and equips them to be leaders in the church

Dec 19, 2024

Inspired by the students’ eagerness to engage, FBC Clarendon began holding a college-led Sunday morning once a semester, where the students get an opportunity to take ownership of their gifts and abilities in ministry, ranging from greeting to preaching.

West Texas pastor and wife open home to invest in Howard College athletes; see salvation and seeds planted around the world

Dec 9, 2024

Sixteen years ago, Mark Lindsey, lead pastor at First Baptist Church Big Spring, and his wife Sherry, were new residents in Big Spring, home to a “bible college ministry and a two-year college,” but no established church. Their neighbor, whose late husband happened to be a basketball coach at Howard College in the 1950s and 1960s, encouraged them to get “involved with basketball and things at the college,” as she was ministering to the athletes at the time. 

Everything else is secondary: West Texas BSM director talks coming to Christ through BSM and serving at his alma mater

Oct 15, 2024

“God burnt a passion in me that week… to serve people, to share the hope that I found in Christ, the joy I found in Christ with other people. And really the work that started in my heart like 20 something years ago during that mission trip, it’s never stopped,” - Eric Hunter, WTAMU BSM director

West Texas A&M BSM welcomes new students; prays for revival

Sep 30, 2024

“...it comes first from spending time with Jesus, the Word, worshiping, being in community and from that place of being filled, we get to pour out into other people.”

West Texas A&M Baptist Student Ministry celebrates 104 of ministry and looks ahead to the future with new building project

Sep 3, 2024

"All the students here are benefactors of you and your legacy and your faithfulness in BSM over the decades. And as we see God move, a lot of it is because of your prayers and your support.” -Eric Hunter, director of BSM at WTAMU.

Baylor BSM receives Mabee Foundation challenge grant for new campus ministry center

Jul 30, 2024

The Texas Baptist Missions Foundation announced Tuesday that the Mabee Foundation has awarded a $1.3 million Challenge Grant toward the construction of the new Baptist Student Ministry Center at Baylor University.

Summer, semester missionaries commissioned at Go Now service

Jun 17, 2024

“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.”

Baylor University conveys land to Texas Baptists for growing Baptist Student Ministry

Apr 22, 2024

Baylor University conveyed to Texas Baptists the deed for a parcel of land set to house the new 12,000-square-foot Baptist Student Ministry (BSM) building in a ceremony held Thursday, April 18, in Waco, TX.

Beach Reach spring break outreach ‘saw God move,’ marked new high in professions of faith

Mar 26, 2024

Ten days of intensive ministry to college students on South Padre Island yielded the highest number of professions of faith in recent memory.

BSM State Lead Team members shape leadership, missional culture

Jan 19, 2024

When Stephen Galarza got involved in Baptist Student Ministry(BSM) as a student at the University of Texas-Pan American (now UT Rio Grande Valley), his life took a dramatically different direction.

New Baptist Student Ministry building dedicated on University of Texas Medical Branch campus sees expanding ministry

Jan 16, 2024

The Baptist Student Ministry has been reaching students on UTMB’s campus since the 1950s, and we continue to be a safe place for students to be supported, cared for and encouraged spiritually.

Baylor BSM staff, students gather for prayer at new building site

Jan 2, 2024

With the growth of the BSM’s ministry, more and more students need places to meet and to study the Bible together.