2008 Woodie Awards
Students reach China, Uganda during holiday break
By: Kaelyn Pfenning
Issue date: 11/29/06 Section: News
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Kaelyn Pfenning
Staff Writer
Eleven students will be traveling overseas to Uganda from Dec. 7 to 19. While they stay in a local hotel, the members of the mission team will be prayer walking, hosting a youth rally, working a basketball camp and doing house-to-house ministry.
The students have been busy raising support in order to prepare for the trip. After receiving responses from 35 of the 75 support letters that he sent out, Logan McKenzie, freshman intercultural studies, has covered the cost for his trip. He has gone on numerous mission trips since God has called him into full-time ministry. McKenzie went to Uganda last year and felt a strong desire to go back this year.
"It really changed my life in the sense of how truly blessed I am to have food on the table, to have loving and Godly parents, and to be able to just freely worship the One and living God of this universe," McKenzie said.
North Greenville University is also sending a mission team to China.
"We cannot talk about the city we are going to in any way, shape or form because of legal issues," said Hunter McGee, senior Christian studies. The team will leave Dec. 15 and will return on Dec. 31, two weeks later.
The team will be teaching English as a second language at universities and will be accompanied by 170 other students working with Christians in China. The five members going from North Greenville have been meeting every Wednesday morning to pray and talk about things.
Each member contributes something to the team. Douglas Allen, junior intercultural studies, knows the Asian culture, and McGee can play the guitar and sing. As departure time draws nearer, the team members continue praying, sending out support letters and adjusting what they eat.
"I know that prayer is the single most important aspect of mission," said Allen.
Staff Writer
Eleven students will be traveling overseas to Uganda from Dec. 7 to 19. While they stay in a local hotel, the members of the mission team will be prayer walking, hosting a youth rally, working a basketball camp and doing house-to-house ministry.
The students have been busy raising support in order to prepare for the trip. After receiving responses from 35 of the 75 support letters that he sent out, Logan McKenzie, freshman intercultural studies, has covered the cost for his trip. He has gone on numerous mission trips since God has called him into full-time ministry. McKenzie went to Uganda last year and felt a strong desire to go back this year.
"It really changed my life in the sense of how truly blessed I am to have food on the table, to have loving and Godly parents, and to be able to just freely worship the One and living God of this universe," McKenzie said.
North Greenville University is also sending a mission team to China.
"We cannot talk about the city we are going to in any way, shape or form because of legal issues," said Hunter McGee, senior Christian studies. The team will leave Dec. 15 and will return on Dec. 31, two weeks later.
The team will be teaching English as a second language at universities and will be accompanied by 170 other students working with Christians in China. The five members going from North Greenville have been meeting every Wednesday morning to pray and talk about things.
Each member contributes something to the team. Douglas Allen, junior intercultural studies, knows the Asian culture, and McGee can play the guitar and sing. As departure time draws nearer, the team members continue praying, sending out support letters and adjusting what they eat.
"I know that prayer is the single most important aspect of mission," said Allen.
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