Spring break happenings are in full swing and Lipscomb students are everywhere from on campus to foreign countries including El Salvador and Jamaica.
Students have been planning for their spring break mission trips since the fall semester. The women’s soccer team is heading back to El Salvador for the second time while other mission trips include Saba, Guatemala and Honduras.
Junior Karli Crosby from the women’s soccer team is one of four from the original group that went last year. Crosby is excited and feels like it will be a different experience from last year.
“I can’t wait to experience the trip that changed my life last year with a new group of my teammates,” Crosby said. “God is going to do great things with this group of girls, and I can’t wait to continue the work we started last year.”
Sophomore Lauren Poe is also going on the second mission trip of her life with the Jamaica team. The team will mostly be doing construction of houses and visiting schools and infirmaries.
“I’m most looking forward to being able to serve the people there and get closer with my [mission] team,” Poe said. “I’m also an education major, so I’m looking forward to going into the schools there and being with the children.”
Not everyone will be on mission trips this break though. Senior golfer MacKenzy Carter is leaving from her golf trip in Hawaii to head to the Bahamas to begin her final spring break.
“I am most looking forward to relaxing without golf or classes flooding my mind,” Carter said. “I love being outside, so I am also looking forward to lying by the pool and seeing places I have never seen before.”
Don’t forget about the Lipscomb sports teams that will be holding the fort down on campus.
Baseball will be home for one game on Tuesday then head to Kennesaw for the weekend series. Softball will be home the first weekend of the break then head to UT Chattanooga for a doubleheader Thursday. Softball will then join the baseball team in Kennesaw.
Both men’s and women’s tennis will spend some time in Georgia then head to USC Upstate for their next conference match.