Story By: Wyatt Smith

MONTEVALLO, Ala. – College students gathered around a home-cooked meal is not what typically comes to mind when imagining a busy mid-week lunch, but at the Montevallo Baptist Campus Ministry building it’s a weekly occurrence.

Every Wednesday the BCM a different church provides any college students who come by their two favorite words, free food.

For students tired of cafeteria food, longing for a nice hot plate of fresh food, this is exactly what they are looking for.

Montevallo student Kinley Armstrong enjoys the meal and loves how it opens time in her busy schedule. “[BCM lunch is] a time that I get to sit down and have a meal with some of my closest friends that I would otherwise not get to see during the week.”

While lunch is not the main focus of the BCM it serves as a way for them to do outreach and show others the love given to them.

BCM resident Lee Lawson believes this is more than just lunch for most people, “Wednesday lunch is an opportunity to build relationships and make connections with students,” Lawson says, “Ultimately the hope is that these connects will allow us to share the gospel with others, to invite them into the same life-giving truths that we have come to accept.”

That is why they do it. Week-in week-out they work hard preparing, serving and caring for college so they can share the gospel with others.

The BCM host Wednesday lunch every week, it is free for college students and $5 a plate for everyone else.