What’s your mission?
Short-term mission trips are scheduled several times a year during Thanksgiving and Spring Breaks, making it possible for you to build churches, help with medical care, train lay pastors, teach English, organize Vacation Bible Schools and teach. Every year, SWAU offers short-term mission trips to
Student missionaries serve for nine-month to one-year terms, offering you a chance to really invest in a place, employ your skills in service to others while earning college credit at the same time. Students who participate in the student missionary (SM) program serve in places like the Marshall Islands, India, Nepal, Ecuador, Peru—indeed all over the world, where they teach, build schools, clinics and churches, preach, perform literature, do evangelism and Bible work, aid the sick, and help with local accounting and technology issues. As an SM you can serve as a student pastor in
Student mission projects are living laboratories where students can earn up to six credits a semester, investigate potential careers, gain resume experience, strengthen their faith and make a difference in the world. When SMs return, they tend to come back changed, more tolerant of differences and more open to God’s plan for their lives.
SWAU Enrollment Director Tina Bottsford (’89), who taught English as a Second Language and Bible in Thailand when she was an undergrad, observes that it was the best and worst year of her life. “I learned more in that one year,” she says, “than any other year in college. You can’t beat the real life, practical experience of a student mission.”