Southern Baptists Name New Collegiate Ministry Leader

Mark Whitt, Baptist Campus Minister at Murray State University (Kentucky), has been named as the new coordinator of Baptist ministry with campus and church based college ministry. Baptist Collegiate Ministry is the largest Christian campus based college ministry on more than 800 college campuses with 353,666 students involved this past year. In addition, 258 Southern Baptist Churches have an intentional college ministry led by a staffer. Whitt will begin serving January 1, 2013 with offices located at Lifeway Christian Resources in Nashville which is the SbC Agency charged with resourcing college ministry in Baptist life. Whitt has served at Murray State for the past 13 years.