North Greenville University sent out mission teams (called Light Teams) to several countries including Nicaragua, Jordan, the Netherlands, Austria and Slovakia over spring break.
North Greenville student Mikayla Horton befriends Nicaraguan children.In Jordan, a team of eight students taught English at a school during the day in order to build relationships with Jordanian students. In the evenings, the team had dinner with some of the teachers’ families. One family was Muslim, the other Christian.
The Nicaragua team was struck by the level of poverty in the country. Many of the better houses were composed of sticks and plastic sheeting and had no electricity or running water. The villages had access to water at wells, and some wells were more than an hour’s walk each way.
“We pray that God would fix our washing machines when they break,” said Ben Wade, a junior from Taylors, “and the Nicaraguan people pray for food to survive. But God answers us both.”
A team of students and an instructor in the mass communications department worked with a local missionary in Barneveld, the Netherlands, to shoot video and photos to be used by media outlets in promoting missions in the country.