BCM Testimony--Dr. Dan Morgan

To Whom It May Concern (and it ought to concern everyone)

I am a missionary in Canada. I train church planters and work on national strategy for the Canadian National Baptist Convention. We depend on God-called students, discipled and trained by BCMs to come alongside our planters to give them the extra people-power needed to advance the Kingdom through the establishing of their church. I know not all BCMs are the same, so let me clarify the kind of BCM that is essential to us.

There are BCM directors who are not concerned to just preserve a student’s loyalty to the SBC, however shallow their commitment to Christ, but they are passionate to take unbelieving students and young believing students on a journey toward Christlikeness. These BCMs help young followers of Christ learn to sacrifice for the King and band together for the extension of the Kingdom. Those ministries consistently send us teams of students that “knock it out of the park.” When a student serves in Canada, there is a some likelihood that God will call them back to us to serve as an adult. If they stay in their home state, they will enter a church as a laborer, not just a religious consumer. They are the future core groups of the new church plants we hope to start all over North America.

Beyond my area of church planting, university ministry forms the “R&D” department of the SBC. It is there that we learn how to win each new generation to Christ. It has been true for my entire ministry that some of our most effective pastors and church planters among young career professionals learned how to minister to the generation they reach by serving on a campus ministry team. It would be tragic to abandon campus ministry because it is not explicitly involved in starting new churches right now. Campus ministry that is focused on evangelism and discipleship is our investment in future evangelism, discipleship, and church planting.

Finally BCM, when rightly focused, is essential in identifying and developing rising young leaders who will carry the SBC into the future. We cannot wait until a person graduates, finds their career, marries, dabbles with other purposes and finally decides to give their all to the church. It takes a long time to raise up a godly leader, we have to start in university. Because the university is its own community, somewhat isolated from the surrounding world, the local church cannot usually do as good a job as a campus-centered ministry in reaching students and turning them into serving disciples. We need the BCM presence.

For all the above,

Thank you to the leaders who have sacrificed to make BCM what it is today

Sincerely,

Dan Morgan

Professor of Church Planting – CSBS&C

National Strategist – CNBC


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