As the semester comes to a close, students gathered in Sub 7 on April 19 to pray for fellow classmates who will be going on mission trips this summer, most of them overseas. The event, called Prayer Send Out, was hosted by Apostolos, Milligan’s student mission club.
Students will be going with church groups, or different organizations, and some are going independently. They will be going to Central America, Africa and eastern Europe.
One student going abroad is sophomore nursing major Izzy Siegel. She will be traveling to the Ivory Coast this summer and will stay two months.
“I feel as if I can help people heal physically, then they will allow me to speak to them about their health spiritually,” Siegel said. “I chose this mission trip to try my first longer-term mission trip that has a medical side.”
Siegel is going with Christian Missionary Fellowship as a research intern. She will be working in HIV/AIDS and maternal clinics while with Community Health Evangelism, spreading the word of Christ.
“I feel like this opportunity is a dream come true, because it is ultimately what I feel like I want to do with the rest of my life,” Siegel said.
This will not be Siegel’s first trip abroad, as she has been to Mexico and the Bahamas in high school; this will be her first medical mission trip.
Another student going abroad is junior sociology major Ellie Mullins. She will be going to Ghana as an intern with City of Refuge Ministries.
“What led me to do this,” Mullins said, “is a passion for underprivileged and at-risk kids as well as a love for cross cultural ministry.”
This will be Mullins’ second time traveling to Ghana, as she was a volunteer with City of Refuge Ministries last year.