by Erika Thornsberry | Jan 17, 2013 | News Slider
Lipscomb University is always finding ways to give back to the community. University students are known to give up their summers, holidays or just some of their free time. Even a few Lipscomb athletes, already short on time, have not let that get in their way of going on mission trips. Brent High, who is a spiritual leader for the athletes, has been taking teams/athletes to different countries in order for them to give back, whether it’s in the states, Dominican Republic or Honduras. Lipscomb athletes Kelsey Cartwright and Sarah McFarlin both had the opportunity to take a trip to Honduras. Cartwright, who took a trip during the summer, said mission trips are important journeys for students to make. “A person should go on a mission trip at least once in their life,” Cartwright said. “I can look back on my Honduras trip, and it helps me be extremely thankful for everything that I have.” McFarlin just recently got back from a Christmas break trip to Honduras. “Once a person goes on one mission trip, they always want to go on another, “ McFarlin said. “It changes the way you view things as well as your overall outlook on life. Seeing everyone work together is like a glimpse of eternity.” Cartwright said that her trip involved a good deal of hard work, but a few surprises were to be found along the way “We did a lot of manual labor, helping with the construction of the house,” Cartwright said. “The best part was that we only thought we were going to be working, but we got to meet kids...
by Leah Raich | May 29, 2012 | News Slider
With final exams now nearly one month in the rearview mirror, Lipscomb students have turned their focus to their next objective – serving Christ across the globe this summer. Over the course of 106 days, from May 4 through Aug. 17, Lipscomb Missions will have 24 teams on the ground in 18 different countries. The timeframe is broad in scope – all summer long – and so are the locations and types of services being offered. From discipline-specific trips in Engineering that will be serving communities in Guatemala and the Dominican Republic to a first year trip to Moldova where a team of graduate psychology students will be providing therapeutic counseling to girls once caught in human trafficking, some students have the opportunity to take what they have learned in the classroom and apply it in a mission field. Students will experience a variety of cultures, from the two trips to Australia (Brisbane and Perth) where students will engage growing churches and encourage youth, to two trips in India where Lipscomb teams will spend five weeks in Mumbai, Delhi and Calcutta ministering in a country where Christians are the minority. In each of these missions, students will have the unique chance to literally “go into all the world,” as Jesus directs his followers in Mark 16:15. This year’s 24 summer trips are a record for Lipscomb Missions, up from 20 trips in 2011 and just eight trips three years ago in 2009. There has been a significant shift in the landscape of the Missions Program as the number of trips offered has flipped from being heavily weighted on spring break efforts to the current majority of summer trips leading...
