Every summer, The Master’s University sends students across the world to partner with missionaries, pastors, and church planters in sharing the gospel and serving local bodies of believers. Here’s a brief look at this summer’s Global Outreach trips:
Team Alaska partnered with Anchorage Grace Church, alongside a current TMU student and an alum of The Master’s Seminary. They helped facilitate a vacation Bible school at the church and ran multiple youth camps for the Alaskan Native peoples. They were introduced to missionary aviation ministries as well as ministries working with men in prison, widows, and at-risk youth. The team also served Grace Christian School by helping to host its annual graduation and served the staff as they prepared for the upcoming school year.
Team Albania served alongside a local church in Albania with a missionary couple who are TMU grads. The team was able to teach music and lead worship, run various sports camps, set up and lead a youth camp with over 50 junior high and high schoolers, and assist with church-planting efforts in the village of Lin. They participated in many outreach ministries, including a vacation Bible school camp with over 90 kids, a food ministry, and intentional time building relationships with people. The missionary family also moved houses during the summer, so team Albania was able to help them paint, build, clean, and move.
Team Cambodia served local churches of Phnom Penh, as well as TMU alumni living there as missionaries. The team had opportunities to teach English, give messages to youth ministries, work on creating and translating resources, visit a medical clinic, facilitate sports and games, participate in building projects, and reach out to communities in need. They also got to spend time in provinces (or villages) outside of Phnom Penh, including Takeo and Kampot, serving missionaries in their local church.
Team Honduras assisted a fellow TMU student and the MEDA International Missions seminary, a school affiliated with The Master’s Academy International that focuses on raising up leaders in the church. The team was able to serve the seminary, its staff, and its local partners through photography and marketing, assisting at a medical clinic, teaching English and music, serving at a coffee shop, offering accounting-related support, and evangelizing. Several of the students spoke Spanish and were able to help translate for other short-term teams from the U.S.
TMU’s women’s basketball team partnered with Joni & Friends and SOS Ministries in the village of Kubamitwe, Uganda. The team ran basketball clinics, served those in the community who live with disabilities, and led worship at Legacy Christian Academy, a ministry of SOS Ministries and sister school of Legacy Christian Academy in Valencia, California. They served alongside two missionary couples who are all TMU alumni.
Brayden Campos is TMU’s director of outreach and international student advancement. Learn more about Global Outreach at TMU, at masters.edu/go-now.
