2008 Woodie Awards
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Jimmy Faseler
Issue date: 4/27/07 Section: News
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Southwest Baptist University students flocked to the missions department in record numbers from the after effects of the impacting missions week April 9-13.
The missions week began with a little head start when missionary and author Gracia Burnham spoke in Chapel April 4 on her experience of being held hostage in the Philippines.
The missions week officially took place Monday, April 9, when the leaders for the 2008 Jan-Term mission trips described what the trips will entail for any adventurous student willing to sacrifice time and money in an unfamiliar area.
Wednesday's Chapel consisted of students reporting their experience in on a mission trip to the student body and promoting the listeners to consider participating in the up coming mission opportunities.
By the time the last interview was held for the January 2008 trips Friday, April 20, a record number of students had applied.
Because of the enormous turnout, the missions department has decided to create another mission team out of the remaining students who applied for other trips but, due to size, could not fit on the team, specifically the Guatemala trip.
The additional mission trip is still undetermined as to what kind of trip it may be. Considering the staggering number of students who applied to go on the mission trip to Guatemala and work at an orphanage, it most likely will revolve around serving children or working at an orphanage.
"There is a high level of interest among students at SBU for orphanage ministry," said Kelly Rhem, assistant director of University Missions.
The missions department wants to take advantage of the high number of students and their specific interests in orphanage ministry and provide students with a suitable amount of trips to fit the desires of the students and extend SBU's presence in world as far as possible.
The students' SBU mission trips include teams to East Asia, Houston, Guatemala, New York City, the Philippines, Thailand, Zambia and the previously noted undetermined mission trip.
The East Asia and New York trips are both very unique. The trip to East Asia plans to take place during Christmas while the trip to New York is a research project in order to locate the ethnic groups in the area.
Some positions for certain trips have not been filled, if anyone is interested in a specific trip, the missions office welcomes them to come to the office to talk more about the still available opportunities.
The missions week began with a little head start when missionary and author Gracia Burnham spoke in Chapel April 4 on her experience of being held hostage in the Philippines.
The missions week officially took place Monday, April 9, when the leaders for the 2008 Jan-Term mission trips described what the trips will entail for any adventurous student willing to sacrifice time and money in an unfamiliar area.
Wednesday's Chapel consisted of students reporting their experience in on a mission trip to the student body and promoting the listeners to consider participating in the up coming mission opportunities.
By the time the last interview was held for the January 2008 trips Friday, April 20, a record number of students had applied.
Because of the enormous turnout, the missions department has decided to create another mission team out of the remaining students who applied for other trips but, due to size, could not fit on the team, specifically the Guatemala trip.
The additional mission trip is still undetermined as to what kind of trip it may be. Considering the staggering number of students who applied to go on the mission trip to Guatemala and work at an orphanage, it most likely will revolve around serving children or working at an orphanage.
"There is a high level of interest among students at SBU for orphanage ministry," said Kelly Rhem, assistant director of University Missions.
The missions department wants to take advantage of the high number of students and their specific interests in orphanage ministry and provide students with a suitable amount of trips to fit the desires of the students and extend SBU's presence in world as far as possible.
The students' SBU mission trips include teams to East Asia, Houston, Guatemala, New York City, the Philippines, Thailand, Zambia and the previously noted undetermined mission trip.
The East Asia and New York trips are both very unique. The trip to East Asia plans to take place during Christmas while the trip to New York is a research project in order to locate the ethnic groups in the area.
Some positions for certain trips have not been filled, if anyone is interested in a specific trip, the missions office welcomes them to come to the office to talk more about the still available opportunities.
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