A trip that inspired one professor is now open to all Lipscomb students.
Lisa Steele, Assistant Dean and Director of Intercultural Development, has visited Nicaragua for the past seven years with Antioch Church of Christ and will lead a similar trip for Lipscomb this May.
“You think you go out there to help people, but at the end you are the one that comes back helped,” Steele said. “It opens up the view of the world.”
Lipscomb will visit León, Chacraseca and Las Maripositas, Nicaragua and partner with Christian Relief Fund. Students on the trip will visit CRF sponsored preschools to teach bible lessons, perform skits, teach songs, prepare lunches and visit homes with area church leaders. The team will work to form long-lasting relationships with church members, families and children.
“When you are there you’ve just got to be relational,” Steele said. “You have to be prepared to do whatever it takes to build a relationship.”
The Nicaragua trip will be May 10-17 and is still open for students to sign up. Up to 12 students can go on the trip.
“It’s a very relational trip and I thought it was perfect for students,” Steele said. “We teach women how to make something that they can sell.”
The trip is open to any student interested in the Latino culture, but those who speak Spanish or who are majoring in Spanish are especially encouraged to participate, according to Steele.
Steele asked junior Jocelyne Lopez to be a co-leader of the trip. Both have lead past trips to Nicaragua.
“Nicaragua was my first mission trip ever and I absolutely feel involved with the culture, the people and especially the children,” Lopez said. “I can’t wait to go back and see what God has done with everyone I met there.
“I guarantee that you will experience Jesus in imaginable ways,” Lopez said. “A mission trip will definitely change your life and your heart. You will see how families have nothing, yet will sacrifice anything they have, any food they have, to make you feel loved and welcomed.”
Photo courtesy of Steele