Scott Smith arrived on the Lander campus to lead the Baptist Collegiate Ministry (BCM) on June 1, 1985. The ministry operated out of a house on Stanley Avenue until the work was so great that a new location was found in 1987 on West Cambridge Avenue. In those 35-plus years, the soft-spoken collegiate minister said heâs walked nearly every inch of campus, talked to thousands of college students, and watched Lander grow from a college to a university. But never, Smith said, has he âexperienced anything like the happenings of this campus since March (2020) when COVID-19 changed our campus and our world.â