Uniting students across the 501 to worship Jesus!

February 16-18

Unite 501 - a student event that kicks off on February 16 at 2ND Baptist in Conway, AR then extends to area churches. Unite 501 will bring multiple student ministries together to worship Jesus. This year’s theme is UNITE. The mission of Unite is to have a weekend worshiping Jesus to ultimately join together to reach this area and beyond for the Gospel!

Each church will have its own schedule for the weekend.  There will be three sessions where the ministries will come together for united worship.

SESSION 1: What it means to UNITE with Jesus  

SESSION 2: The importance of UNITING by doing life together 

SESSION 3: UNITING the community for the Gospel

Adam French - Featured Speaker

Adam, has been Pastoring for over a decade. In 2022, he founded Recovery Refuge, a Christ-centered ministry designed to help those struggling with addictions find healing. Adam currently speaks across the nation at Churches, youth camps, and prisons as a bible communicator while being the Executive Director of Recovery Refuge

On a personal note, he has been married for 14 years and has three children, ages 16, 14, and 6. He is the author of Mandentity, Healing The Wounded Man, a former collegiate athlete, and a middle school football coach. For fun, he enjoys coaching and cheering on his sons’ sports teams, playing disc golf, helping people in recovery, spending time with his wife, and eating dinner at the table with his family.

Joel Winters - Worship

Joel Winters is a worship leader from central Arkansas. He serves as the worship pastor at First Baptist Church in Benton. He also serves as the chapel worship director for Ouachita Baptist University. Much of Joel’s time in worship ministry is spent serving high school and college students. He is joined by a group of college and young adults from various parts of the state to lead in worship for Unite.