Belmont Students On Missions
and Service Learning Overseas
Summer Missions and Service Learning Trips 2009
Blog: Global Outreach Missions Five Belmont students, staff, and alumni will be serving in Cape Town, South Africa July 2-13, 2009. The team will be working with local children’s clubs and hospices to spread the word about AIDS prevention and education. They will also be conducting a children’s club in one of the impoverished areas of the city.
Blog: 40 States in 40 Days: Planning to tour “The United States in 40 Days,” 10 Belmont University students and two faculty members will board a chartered sleeper bus June 6 to begin a 9,300+ mile, cross-country journey in an attempt to answer the question, “What Does It Mean to Be an American?” The class will travel through 40 states on this first-of-its-kind, study-at-home journey, chronicling their experiences on a daily blog as they visit sites of national and historical significance and encounter “local culture” everywhere from the Deep South to the West Coast to the Northeast and all points in between.
Blog: Service Learning in South Africa : Seventeen students will be serving and studying abroad on Belmont’s third consecutive trip to Capetown, South Africa and Gaborone, Botswana. Students will be focusing on the themes of truth, justice and poverty while taking courses in social entrepreneurship, writing and religion. The students will be working with local children’s clubs and hospices to spread the word about AIDS prevention and education. This year's group is led by Dr. Mark McEntire.
Blog: Africa Journal : The annual Sports Evangelism Mission Trip is scheduled for May 17-28, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa where the team will work with Fish Hook Baptist Church and the Living Hope Center. Ten student-athletes and Tony Howell, Assistant Volleyball Coach, will accompany Betty Wiseman to do sports ministry in local townships, schools, and communities within the Cape Town area. Team members are basketball players Keaton Belcher, Drew Hanlen, Mick Hedgepeth, Andy Wicke, Cacy Burtnett, Whitney Seals, Rachel Swisher, former player Stefan Baskin, and volleyball players Carly Frazier and Jenny Gray. While there the team will work with leaders of the Living Hope Center to establish an on-going sports community outreach ministry.
Blog: Mission to Cambodia: This course is a travel abroad course on the health care delivery system of Cambodia. It will examine the provision of health care, its philosophy, and the technology of the country and compare these systems with the health care delivery system of the United States. Students will observe in a governmental hospital, an AIDS clinic, a chronic care facility, and have clinical experiences in Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE, a charity hospital serving the poor of Cambodia. Opportunities for service learning experiences with the Khmer people will be provided through an established non-denominational church.
Blog: Belmont in Japan The goals of this study abroad program is to develop basic knowledge of modern Japanese history understand Japanese economic system and main sources of its economic success and weaknesses as well as develop an appreciation for Japanese language and culture. We will have an opportunity to visit Kyoto, Tokyo, Nara, Uji, Osaka, and Hiroshima while staying in Otsu. This way we will have a glance at traditional Japan, as well as modern Japan.
Spring Break Missions 2009
Blog: Physical Therapy Mission to Guatemala: A 28-member team of Belmont University students and faculty served rehabilitation hospitals in Guatemala over spring break. The group provided physical and occupational therapy to the needs of the local hospital as well as training for the hospital staff in up-to-date knowledge and treatment techniques. The students also visited a local school and encouraged students to pursue health professional goals.
