Vidallia — Chase Caldwell is one of 198 university and college students who Mississippi Baptist Student Union is helping to send as a summer missionary.

Chase, son of Gary and Mary Ruth Caldwell of Vidalia, is a student at Mississippi College and will be serving in Montana. Each of the 198 students will have either all or a significant portion of their expenses paid by fellow students during their term of service. The Mississippi Baptist Student Union raises funds for summer missions primarily by donations from students involved in 31 BSU programs on campuses across the state. This year’s budget is $150,000.

Most students serve an eight to ten-week term alongside career missionaries in positions which are International Mission Board or North American Mission Board related. There are 108 students who will serve internationally, and eighty-six will work in 25 states and Canada.

Baptist Student Union is sponsored by the Collegiate Ministry Department of the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board and is made possible by the Cooperative Program, which is a volunteer giving plan of more than 2,000 Southern Baptist churches in Mississippi.