Written by Amanda Toye<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spring Break is next week for Harding students. The school loves to support students’ desire for service by helping them lead and attend mission trips over break. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joy Tittle is the director of Harding\u2019s Spring Break mission trips and teaches students how to lead their group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have a total of eighty-five students going to six different locations,\u201d Tittle said. The six different locations students are traveling to are New York, Nicaragua, Cozumel, New Hampshire, Texas and Arizona. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe groups are completely student-led,\u201d Tittle said. \u201cNo faculty or staff go with them. They are trained to lead with the whole purpose of spring break missions is for the students to feel comfortable leading a team after they leave Harding. They come and meet with me about once a month starting in the fall and we start planning. They work on a budget and itinerary and we talk through fundraising and booking flights and then coordinating with the missionaries at each location as to what they need them to help with.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For these mission trips, students work hard to fundraise between $500-$2,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sophomore Cassie Swartz will be traveling to New Hampshire to work with a new church plant for the second year in a row. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to Laconia, New Hampshire,\u201d Swartz said. \u201cThere\u2019s a small church plant there. The Dutiles, they used to church-plant with the Williamson\u2019s, they just started a church plant in New Hampshire a couple years ago so we\u2019re just gonna go support the church there and the community. It\u2019s a pretty small church and there\u2019s not a lot of churches of Christ up there so the biggest thing we\u2019re doing is going to encourage the church and see how they\u2019re making the whole community a light with Christ.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Swartz said she is excited to go back to the church this year and continue the relationships she began to form during her last trip there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Freshman Ali Mills will be traveling to Guatemala with Health Talents International for a more medical-based mission trip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBasically you go and provide healthcare to people who don\u2019t have access to it or can\u2019t afford it.\u201d Mills said. \u201cWe\u2019re going with dentistry week so a dentist will be going on our trip. We\u2019ll have a couple of mobile clinics and also be working at the permanent clinics. I\u2019ll just be helping out with whatever since I\u2019m not a licensed healthcare provider, but there will be PA students there and we\u2019ll get to observe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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