Posted on 09/04/2014 6:19:11 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Apart from their recent college football successes and their former flashy and party-hard quarterback Johnny “Football” Manziel, Texas A&M University has had a different kind of success: a surprisingly rapid growth in its Christian ministry on-campus. The Breakaway Ministries holds a weekly worship and prayer service at the college’s basketball arena and special events center, the Reed Arena. From its launch with twelve students in a college dorm room in 1989 to nearly 12,000 weekly attendees today, it is impressive to learn about budding Christianity on a major college campus. breakaway ministries
The director of Breakaway Ministries, Ben Stuart, was interviewed by the American Family Association Journal writer Stacy Long, and said, “It was just a couple of guys who wanted to seek the Lord together in Bible study and prayer.” He started at Breakaway Ministries in 2005, when attendance was around 2,500.
The threefold purpose of the ministry is to introduce students to Christ, connect them with a church and then to “inspire them and equip them to walk with Him for a lifetime.” The majority of students hadlittle-to-no spiritual background, and oftentimes quit going to church because they did not have a connection to local churches in the area. Stuart admitted that he was not the reason behind the growth in the ministry, and attributed it to God and humility.
Several major problems that Stuart and the ministry face are “sexual brokenness and scriptural illiteracy,” but all Breakaway Ministries offers is “genuine love” and “truth,” two things that the world “isn’t offering.”
The Christian Broadcasting Network also wrote about the Breakaway Ministries last year, and added that the ministry also does community service such as like raising $100,000 to help stop child sex trafficking and has an international outreach program known as the Shalom Project.
Thank-you for making my day with this. God Bless.
Good news regarding spreading the Good News! Sexual brokeness and scriptural illiteracy being the problems they come across frequently
Revival! Hope the fire keeps spreading!
Good news ping!
I would say they are the top two problems in contemporary society. Without strong families, we are easy pickings for government overreach and criminal victimization. But I repeat myself.
A&M has had a thriving Christian community for years. More priests have come out of A&M than Notre Dame.
A&M is where 40 Days for Life got it’s start, too.
I live in College Station and it’s not just the college that is growing spiritually; the entire city feels on fire for God. I’m praying it’ll continue!
My son started at Texas A&M in 1996 as a freshman and Breakaway was such a blessing. He graduated in 2000 and it was just getting bigger and bigger every year.
My oldest graduated from A&M and was very involved with Breakaway Ministries. We were so impressed with the program...and it’s outreach. A blessing, indeed.
Churches in College Station are full on Sunday mornings....many with college kids taking notes on the message and Scriptures read.
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I’m not surprised
Sounds like Breakaway Ministries needs a chapter at every college.
Our daughter graduated from A&M in 2008. They used to joke that the only time the campus or College Station police were needed, was for tee shirt sales day and Sunday morning.
We visited her on Sunday and the PD would stop all traffic. The kids would cross the main drag and head to Church Street which was one block from the campus.
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you are most welcome.
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God is also working on the Syracuse University campus.
And I’m sure there’s others.
Anyone praying for campus ministries could really add any college to their prayers.
They are meeting at the Church of Jack Daniels?
That Manziel punk gave me a bad image of it. lol
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