Garrison uses spring break for mission work

Garrison was one of 325 Lipscomb University students to visit 22 locations throughout the Western Hemisphere, from England to El Salvador, to perform mission work during spring break.

This is the seventh year Lipscomb mission groups have had the opportunity to travel to New York City to work with Camp Shiloh in the public school system in the Bronx. Lipscomb students helped a local public school through one-on-one tutoring and classroom activities designed to prepare students for state testing in math and reading. The group organized an evening program at the church for children and teenagers in the community.

Locations for Lipscomb’s spring break mission trips include the Atlanta and New York City inner cities; Jamaica; Haiti; Baja, Calif.; several small cities in England; Miami; Panama City, Fla.; the islands of Saba and Statia; two orphanages in Mexico; Guatemala; two locations in Honduras; and El Salvador.

Lipscomb has sponsored mission trips worldwide for many years, but in 2002 the university centralized coordination of student trips through its missions department. The teams have their own meeting room and resource center on campus, and hundreds of alumni, Lipscomb faculty and staff, and Christians from the community join the students each year on various trips.

‘These mission opportunities allow our students a chance to put their faith into action,’ said Mark Jent, coordinator of missions development. ‘Their hard work brings transforming life changes through the relationships they build in these places. We consider ourselves fortunate to have a generation of students before us that make serving others and glorifying God a priority in their lives.’