Rolling onto South Padre Island for five days of evangelistic outreach, the passengers on Baylor University junior Chloe Mandeville’s van got vulnerable about their struggles and fears heading into the first week of Beach Reach.
“We just exposed it all at the very beginning, which I’ve never seen before,” said Mandeville, who was participating in Beach Reach for the third time.
‘Handpicked by God’
“And I was so encouraged because by the time I shared mine, it was like nothing, because everyone before me and everyone after me had such similar stories. It was like [we were] truly handpicked by God to be in that van together.”
Every spring break, hundreds of college students from Baptist Student Ministries across the state head to South Padre Island to join Beach Reach, a mission effort to share the gospel while providing free late-night van rides and free pancake breakfasts each morning.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Jessica King and originally published by Baptist Standard.
