From Africa to the Big Apple, Liberty students will use Spring Break to engage cultures and serve the nations

Whether sharing the Gospel on the streets of Brooklyn or following the Apostle Paul’s missionary journey through Italy, hundreds of Liberty University students will leave campus on Spring Break next week, March 7-16, to serve people around the globe and simultaneously gain valuable knowledge that will help them excel in their respective fields of study.

In all, Liberty is sponsoring 14 trips over Spring Break, with many offering both academic and service-oriented elements. About 300 students will have the chance to learn about other cultures and have the opportunity to spread the light of the Gospel. All trips are coordinated by LU Send, the office that facilitates student group travel for Liberty.

One service-oriented trip will see students traveling with the John W. Rawlings School of Divinity to Honduras to serve women who have escaped abusive relationships and help strengthen discipleship efforts within local churches.  The School of Nursing will be traveling to Africa for their annual medical mission experiences. In Kenya, nursing students will work with the Happy Life Children’s Home to care for orphaned children, while another team in Rwanda will work in coordination with the Anglican Church to provide community health clinics for struggling areas. Liberty’s College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) will conduct a medical mission trip to serve residents of El Salvador alongside a Christian clinic that seeks to serve patients on a holistic level, both spiritually and physically.

One month after sending a service team to Romania to help address the Ukrainian refugee crisis, LU Serve Now will deploy a team to Mayfield, Ky., to assist Samaritan’s Purse with rebuilding structures damaged by tornadoes in December 2021. This marks LU Serve Now’s second trip to Mayfield after sending a team in Fall 2022.

In New York City, Department of Theatre Arts students will be displaying their talent as they share the Gospel through performances in inner-city neighborhoods and community centers, as well as help facilitate acting camps during after-school programs.

Other trips, such as the one to Italy, will follow Paul’s missionary journeys and explore early church history up close and personal. A C.S. Lewis study tour through England and Ireland will provide students the opportunity to visit famous sites in Christian history, and see where C.S Lewis grew up, became a Christian, and received inspiration to write many of his popular works. Family & Consumer Science students will travel to England and Scotland to visit “fashion houses” (where new styles of clothing are designed and sold) to learn about fashion and interior design while focusing on what it means to be a Christian working in the fashion industry.

Spring Break 2024 trips

• Ecuador, Department of Psychology
• Honduras, School of Divinity
• Eastern Europe, Global Studies Department
• Italy, School of Divinity (church history focus on Paul’s journey)
• Rwanda, School of Nursing
• Kenya, School of Nursing
• Singapore, Department of Counselor Education & Family Studies
• The Philippines, Department of Counselor Education & Family Studies
• New York City, Department of Theatre Arts
• England and Ireland, School of Communication and the Arts (C.S. Lewis Study Tour)
• Spain, Allied Health Professions Department
• England and Scotland, Interior & Fashion Design (Family & Consumer Sciences)
• El Salvador, LUCOM
• Mayfield, Ky., LU Serve Now

The university’s annual Spring Break trip to Israel was canceled this year due to the current civil unrest plaguing the Middle East.