By Carson Conover; Longview/Blue River Community College OUTREACH We’ve begun a new semester at MCC Blue River and Longview! The first month of a new semester is always an important time to make new student contacts, set up face to face gospel appointments, share Christ, have fun, and start Bible studies. There’s a lot of [...]
By Travis Hamm, BR-KC Collegiate Minister and MBC Collegiate Ministry Strategist There’s always so much going on in our ministry, and if you are like me, it’s easy to just go from one thing to the next without stopping. In my e-newsletters I try to give you a glimpse into the ministry by offering some highlights of [...]
by Carson Conover Longview/Blue River Community Colleges. Originally published in the February 2018 edition of our Missions & Ministry Newsletter. New Semester The spring semester is underway! We spent time this week with student leaders hosting a table event on campus to recruit new people. We had students fill out 30 second surveys to gauge [...]
by Travis Hamm, Kansas City Collegiate Impact and MBC Collegiate Strategist For the last 10 years Impact has been sharing the gospel and making disciples at UMKC. God has worked to bring students to faith in Jesus and be sent out as His ambassadors. Meanwhile there are over 39,000 college students on 8 campuses in the [...]
By Carson Conover, Campus Ministries at Longview and Blue River Community College ([email protected]). Edited by Britney Hamm [email protected] KANSAS CITY – Ministering to students at a commuter-based community college isn't an easy task. But for Carson Conover, Campus Missionary at Longview and Blue River Community Colleges, it's a worthy one. In the past several months, [...]
By Travis Hamm, Impact Ministries at UMKC and Kansas City Collegiate Strategist ([email protected]). Edited by Britney Hamm. I once heard a pastor describe the process of conversion and discipleship as a tick...tick...tick...BOOM! cycle that continues throughout someone's life. The "ticks" represent all the small, seemingly insignificant steps, realizations, and awakenings that lead to the "BOOM" [...]
Campus Ministry Update Carson Conover, Blue River/Longview Finals are done! Students are breathing a bit easier and excited for summer break. We wrapped up the semester at Blue River by serving students during finals week giving away free scantrons and invites to Challenge (our ministry on campus). The best way to reach students is through [...]
By Travis Hamm There has been so much going on lately with my new Collegiate Strategist role. 1) We unveiled a new website! In recent years, MBC College Ministry has not had a centralized web presence. Our strategy team determined a website is essential for us to cast vision about college ministry and connect people [...]
March 10-17 is spring break for MCC Community Colleges. We’ve spent the week in Ferguson, MO reaching out to the campus of the University of Missouri St. Louis. I took 5 MCC students with me and we joined approximately 20 other students from SEMO and MO West Universities. Together, we had over 200 conversations with [...]
by Britney Hamm In Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians, he writes, And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the [...]
