Join us today at 10:30 am to hear Tim Simpson, College Minister at First Baptist Church Tuscaloosa, talk through how his ministry has established disciple making small groups.  Tim has been the college minister at FBC Tuscaloosa for 11 years and has a ton of wisdom to pass on to us.

College ministries want to lead students into a growing relationship with Jesus and equip them for a lifetime of ministry and small groups can serve as a way to accomplish this.  In order to achieve this, some ministries have an application for small group Bible study leaders every spring that is followed by a leadership retreat at the beginning of the fall to train them.  In concert with these events it is crucial that ministries continue to train and equip leaders, one avenue could be in weekly leaders meetings.  Tim will attempt to unpack all this leadership training that goes into making his ministry's successful small groups. 

We hope you can make it for the webinar.  For more information on how to attend the webinar please visit www.collegiate-ministry.com/webinars

In case you haven't heard, we are going to have a special guest at our Annual Meeting coming up in two weeks: 9Marks.  See the following from 9Marks blog:

Lord willing, 9Marks will be hosting a special event in a few weeks immediately following the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention Annual Meeting. The event will take place on November 15 in Irving, Texas. Mark Dever will give a talk on the Nine Marks, which will be followed by a panel discussion led by Dever and featuring ministry leaders from the area. Here are the details:

9Marks at the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention Annual Meeting

Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Speaker: Mark Dever

Panelists: Anthony Moore, Juan Sanchez, Josh Smith, Thomas White

Time: Immedately following the Tuesday evening session of the Annual Meeting (Approximately 9 p.m.)

Location: Irving Convention Center (221 East Las Colinas Boulevard, Irving, TX 75039) Room Number: TBD

Cost: Free

If you are a church leader in Texas, and you are planning to attend the SBTC Annual Meeting, we encourage you to stick around. This event is also open to the general public. We are grateful for this opportunity to encourage and equip church leaders in the Lone Star State. We hope you'll join us!

We're excited to have Mark Dever lead this panel discussing various issues that are pertinent to Christianity and want to encourage you to join us for Annual Meeting and the 9Marks discussion.  If you would like more information on how to register for Annual Meeting click on the following link:

SBTC Annual Meeting

We hope to see you there and look forward to what God has in store for us in the upcoming years!!

Well folks, I am still sulking over the Rangers meltdown that was game 6 of the World Series, so I thought that instead of writing something I would let y'all listen to Mark Dever addressing students at Georgetown on the topic of "Is Becoming a Christian Committing Intellectual Suicide."  You can DOWNLOAD THE TALK HERE. I feel as though many scientists, atheists, evolutionists, philosophers and educators answer that question in the affirmative and it's important to note that actually believing in Christ and living for Him is actually not intellectual suicide at all, rather it is intellectually freeing as Dever notes.  Anyway I hope you guys enjoy the recording.

 I'm hoping to be in a better mood after tonight's game and the weekend ;)

In case you guys were wondering, and hopefully praying, about how mi-eXchange went this past weekend, it went great!  We appreciate everyone who attended and pray that God's kingdom is grown as a direct result of training college students and young adults how to engage with different religious people groups.  I wanted to give you guys an idea of what happened over the weekend so I asked one of our college ministers to provide a summary of what his ministry learned from the event.

James Scivally, College Pastor at Southcliff Baptist Church wrote the following:

"mi-eXchange raised awareness in our students about the different faith groups right here in our backyard. This weekend was educational as we learned more about their beliefs, customs and how to reach them. It also reinforced the urgent need to share the gospel at every opportunity. God is bringing the nations to us. Now that we see them, we must change our perspective and treat our city like the mission field it truly is.

Thanks to the guys at SBTC for putting this weekend on for us!"

We were grateful to James and Southcliff Baptist Church for opening their doors to us this past weekend and look forward to seeing God use college students around the state of Texas to engage fellow collegiates who are Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim (as well as many other religions/non-religions) with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  If you missed out on mi-eXchange this year we would love to see you next year for mi-eXchange.  It is scheduled for October 19-20 in 2012 and will be held at Southcliff Baptist Church, in Fort Worth.  Mark down the date on your calendars and we hope to see you then!!

Hey guys, I want to plant one more bug in your ears about mi-eXchange this year which is taking place this Friday evening and Saturday morning.  The purpose of mi-eXchange is to get college students and yound adults engaging different religious people groups.  We will provide training in conversing with Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhists people within the DFW metroplex.  We have three different training tracts that you can register for based on your level of experience or confidence in engaging these three religious peoples.

We have extended registration to go through this Thursday, October 20 and are really excited to train young adults and college students in engaging people groups that are on their campuses and in their workplaces. 

To register for mi-eXchange go to http://sbtexas.com/miexchange/.  We'll see you there!!