The Omnibus

Issue date: 3/9/07 Section: In the Spotlight

While some students may head home or to the beach this spring break, 51 Southwest Baptist University staff and students will go on mission trips.
Staff and students will head to St. Louis, Canton, Miss. and Garca, Brazil.
Assistant Director of University Missions Deanna Collins is leading 14 students to St. Louis to work with the Bosnian community, a women's shelter and some inner city ministries. The team will leave Saturday, March 17 and return to SBU Saturday, March 24. The team will also work with a homeless ministry and food pantry. This is the first time SBU will send a mission team to St. Louis.
[Class] Don Hodson and senior Shelley Baugh are leading the overseas mission to Garca, Brazil. The team will fly to Brazil Friday, March 16 and return to SBU March 24. The team of 27 students will work with the Alpha Omega Children's Home, playing with the children and ministering to the workers. The team will also have a chance to present the gospel in the local high schools. This is the second team SBU will send to Brazil.
"I'm most looking forward to meeting the kids, playing a lot of soccer, loving on the kids and building relationships," said senior Erin Phelps.
SBU graduates Ethan Hampton and Ashley Schaffer will take 10 students to Canton, Miss. to work with In His Steps Ministries with service projects and racial reconciliation. The team will also work with youth and children, holding backyard Bible clubs.
"We're going to be tutoring underprivileged kids and doing some skits for them," said junior Holly Stockard. "I'm really looking forward to that."
The Mississippi team is leaving March 17 and returning March 24. This is the second year SBU has taken a mission team to Mississippi.

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