“Fill the field, not the room.”
Clint Culpepper said that was the vision when he and Kennedi Kruger became the Baptist campus minister and associate minister at Auburn University two years ago.
At that point, the school’s longstanding Baptist Campus Ministries found itself at a little bit of a crossroads. For decades, one of the BCM’s biggest ministry platforms had been its Tuesday night worship and Bible study, but after COVID and a move to a new building, that was starting to wane.
“The campus is growing the opposite way of where we’re located,” Culpepper said.
So he and Kruger began looking instead for a way to mobilize students to reach their campus — to fill the field, not the room.
Strategic access
Kruger said they started with “a very small group of 15 students who wanted to be discipled and wanted to learn how to share the gospel” and started equipping them to share their faith. Then they started sending them out into “a campus that needed to see how deeply loved it is.”
“It’s been great for both of us to be able to invest in students’ lives in that way and be able to love their campus,” she said.
Culpepper said their goal is to get the gospel to 192 places on campus, one of which is a biology classroom where they recently held a God and Science night led by a quantum chemist who is a Christian.
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This article was originally published at TheAlabamaBaptist.org.
