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Research Question: What does the Baptist Collegiate Ministry do for their designated college campus?

Annotation: Denman, Barbara. "BCM, local churches partner to minister to college students" Florida Baptist Witness, http://gofbw.com/blog?id=1066. 17 Aug. 2016.

This article is about how local churches in the various Florida areas partner with the BCM to minister to college students. It is written by Barbara Denman who is the director of communications for the Florida Baptist Convention, which is in charge of all the Baptist Collegiate Ministries in Florida.

It talks about how students are able to find spiritual growth, discipleship and various opportunities to partner with local churches. Matt Seitz who is the college pastor at North Central Baptist Church in Gainesville partners with University of Florida's BCM says, "If you are a church in a college town like Gainesville and are not actively involved in the life of BCM... Not engaging your campus is bad stewardship. BCM is our outreach arm on campus.” That essentially means that if you as a church and you don't partner with your local BCM you are missing out on preaching the gospel to college students. The various BCM's also allow students to spend their winter, spring and summer breaks doing mission trips to various places around the world. Billy Young, who is the Florida Baptists' Next Generation ministry supervisor says that “Mobilizing college students to go on mission helps instill a focus to live on mission long after the brief college years.” In other words, going on mission trips while in college helps students focus on helping people even after their college career is over.