They’ve gone to a village in Guatemala, an orphanage in Mexico, New York City and points between and beyond.
As usual, many Lipscomb students, with faculty support, are spending their spring break helping people in different parts of the world and also growing.
Every year students, faculty, staff and alumni join together to partner with Lipscomb’s mission initiatives. Lipcomb offers a variety of trips both international and domestic. Hundreds of Lipscomb affiliates are involved and hundreds of lives changed.
This year, the mission efforts began even before spring break officially got under way.
The first trip departed at dawn March 10, leaving from Nashville International airport en route to Guatemala.
Jordan Lewis, a junior nursing major said that she wasn’t nervous, but just excited to take part in the medical mission trip located in the Ulpan Valley of Guatemala.
The Chattanooga native is a rookie to medical missions, but she is not letting her inexperience get in the way.
“I expect to help with medicines and playing with the kids, and helping with the doctors,” said Lewis. “Overall, I am most excited about seeing a different culture and being somewhere completely rural.”
This is the 10th consecutive year for Lipscomb admissions recruiter, Josh Link, to serve the City of Children.
The City of Children is an orphanage located in Ensenada, Mexico.
After spending every spring break of his college years in Ensenada, Link is now the trip leader.
But what keeps Link returning to the City of Children?
“I am most excited about seeing the kid that I have a relationship with,” said Link. “There is a kid that I met the first time there, and I have been able to watch him grow into a teenager at this point.”
Link said he looks forward to seeing his team grow spiritually, despite being a younger team compared to previous years.
While in Ensenada the City of Children team will be conducting a Vacation Bible School for the orphanage, as well as delivering food bags around the area and work projects at the orphanage.
These aren’t the only trips under way, though. For example, a group from Lipscomb is also helping inner city children in New York City.
And when spring break ends, many of the students will begin thinking about the next place where they can be of help.
Visit the Lipscomb Missions website to find out about other mission possibilities for this summer, or next fall.
“I would encourage at some point during your time do a mission trip through Lipscomb with your peers,” says link. “You get to grow with your peers and you really get to see your friends in a different way than you do on campus in Green Hills.”
“This is a unique experience you don’t get during the week on campus”