This summer, 120 Mississippi Baptist Student Union (BSU) students served in 20 countries, 14 states, and two U.S. territories. This is one in a series of articles from The Baptist Record illustrating what the summer missionaries experienced for themselves.
Nathanael Roark, BSU summer missionary from Delta State University, taught English to university students in Songkhla, Thailand, alongside Isaac Sivils from Mississippi State University, Jenna Landers from Blue Mountain Christian University, and Julia-Ruth Luter from William Carey University.
Through group activities, movie nights, cooking, paddle boarding, shopping and playing sports, the summer missionaries befriended and engaged in gospel conversations with the students. In addition, they taught English classes to a few hundred elementary and middle school students and served in prison ministry and elderly care ministry.
“One way that I saw God at work most of all,” Roark shared, “was through a student named Mark. He was the person we felt we had an impact on the most. God really used us to show the love of Christ to him. Over time, we got to know Mark very well and shared the gospel with him many times. Mark was very curious about the gospel and was even considering converting from Buddhism to Christianity.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Lindsey Williams and originally published by the Baptist Record.
