As spring break approaches, many options are available for students
Posted by The Skyliner on March 3rd, 2010Christine Parks
Staff Writer
As Spring break is approaching quickly, so are many North Greenville mission trips. Allen McWhite, director of global missions, named at least five North Greenville mission trips to Romania, Honduras, Ecuador, Mexico and Washington, DC. North Greenville is active in creating opportunities for students to minister to the world by sharing the gospel of Christ and His love.
Mark Smith, sophomore secondary education biology and NGU football player, is traveling with other teammates to Mexico.
“It’s a good opportunity to go with other teammates because we’re working with a football team down in Mexico. We get to teach them about American football but it also opens doors to share the gospel and make relationships,” said Smith. “Even though we’re only there for a week, it can be good to make relationships we [can] invest in later.”
Vicki Plows, junior psychology, is traveling to Honduras and has a similar view about creating relationships. Her passion, instead of football, is youth.
“God has given me a passion for teenagers. I feel like going [to Honduras] and having love for them and [building] relationships with them, I think that’s where the ministry is going to stem from, building relationships with specific kids,” said Plows. “The focus is relationships.”
“The trips are really not so much an end in themselves as they are a means to a greater end,” said McWhite. “Our prayer is that when students are here at North Greenville they would really develop a heart for the nations.”
As students discover and develop a heart for the nations, their passions can be developed and used wherever they are.
McWhite said, “I really would like to see students, regardless of their academic major, consider taking at least an introductory [course] to give them exposure to what God’s doing around the world, because we need people in all kinds of academic disciplines on the mission field.”
For more information on how to participate in mission trips sponsored by the campus, please contact Allen McWhite at Allen.McWhite@ngu.edu or reach him through his office phone at 864-977-7076.
Tags: Spring 2010, Vol. 110 - Issue 6