Scooter Kellum says there are a lot of things that could define a youth conference. And he doesn’t mind if the state’s SPEAK conference offers some of them — like good music, Krispy Kreme donuts and a packed late-night concert. But most of all, he wants the youth who attend SPEAK every year to see […]

Five years ago, Shantrice Coleman got talked into going to a youth camp against her better judgment. “I really wasn’t for it,” she said. “I had been in a church a couple of times, but I didn’t really know what it was all about.” Ultimately the idea of a road trip to Tennessee convinced her […]

Chris Mills said he can think of several people he knows who came to faith in Christ in middle school, in high school and in college. And he said he knows that happened because God moved and because a fellow student was bold enough to live out the gospel and share Christ with them. “We […]

The last week of July, Scooter Kellum and other youth leaders from Taylor Road Baptist Church, Montgomery, drove a group of teenagers away from the Ocoee River and back into the reach of a cell phone signal. And the whole carload of teens’ phones lit up. “It’s amazing how dependent we get on the internet,” […]

Using the hashtag #speak17, students took their praise of Alabama’s annual SPEAK conference to the place they know best — social media. By the end of the conference, held July 21–22 at Vaughn Forest Church, Montgomery, more than 600 Instagram posts and dozens of tweets and Facebook posts featured the hashtag. “With my faves,” posted […]