Fall Break Trip
Past destinations include Nashville and Clarkston. Dates and destination are announced in September — rather than sit on a “coming soon”, join the list and we’ll email you the day it opens.
Join the interest list
Go
College Is the Best Time to Go
You will never again have this many free weeks and this few obligations. Four windows a year, and help paying for it.
Spring Break
Beach Reach
Each spring the BCM goes on a mission trip somewhere in the world. This year we’re participating in Beach Reach, a Spring Break evangelism project providing free van rides to spring breakers in Panama City Beach, Florida.
- Deposit
- $26.00
- Where
- Panama City Beach, Florida
- What you do
- Drive vans, serve pancakes, have conversations
Discount code
FALL
$50 off your registration price.
Summer
Summer Projects
There are opportunities to serve all over the world through One Mission Students, an Alabama Baptist collegiate sending ministry. Projects run from a week to a whole summer.
Kim’s calling, in her own words, “would somehow involve mobilizing students to do missions.” If you want to go, she is the person to talk to first — before you plan your summer, not after.
Semester Missions
A whole semester away, or a year, through One Mission Students. It affects your degree plan, so it is a conversation to have early rather than late.
Start the conversationReal places
Where BCM Students Have Actually Gone
From BCM’s own trip record — not aspirational language about “the world”.
The money question
You Don’t Have to Pay for It Yourself
Cost is the reason most students say no to missions. Support raising is how almost everybody who goes actually gets there — and doing it well is part of the point, not a chore around the edges.
- Step 1
Write the List Before the Letter
Family, home church, high school teachers, your parents’ friends, people who have supported someone before. Aim for forty names, not four.
- Step 2
Send a Real Letter, Not a Link
Say where you’re going, what you’ll do, what it costs, and by when. Ask directly. A vague ask gets a vague answer.
- Step 3
Give a Deadline Six Weeks Out
Deposits are due long before the trip. Work backwards from the deposit date, not the departure date.
- Step 4
Follow up Once, Warmly
Most gifts arrive after the second message. That is normal and not rude.
- Step 5
Report Back Afterwards
Photos and a paragraph. The people who funded this trip are the people who will fund the next one.
One step
Say You’re Interested Before You’ve Decided.
Being on the list commits you to nothing and gets you the dates first.
