CBU Students Serving the World (Again)

CBU STUDENTS SERVING, LEARNING AND TRAVELING THE WORLD (AGAIN)

In May 2022 CBU began its mobilization season. More than 140 participants comprising 16 teams served in 13 countries. Teams visited areas in Africa, Asia, Central America and Europe.

International Service Projects (ISP) was put on a two-year hiatus caused by the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“They’ve been equipped to share the faith,” said John King, former director of mobilization. “We are so grateful to God here in this moment. There are so many ways that He’s answered prayers along the way.”

Students in a Field Practicum traveled to Peru in late April 2022 to learn more about the ecosystem, culture and geology of the planet using Peru as an example. Students saw firsthand the methods Peruvians use to conserve energy and how the environment plays a role in their way of life from growing their food to producing goods.

The tour explored Lima, Cuzco, Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, Ollantaytambo and Pisac, and it exposed the students to a variety of environments from busy city life to the quiet mountainside.

“It made me appreciate the conveniences we are so blessed with,” said Meaghan Nunley, a biomedical sciences senior. “It has opened my mind seeing a developing country firsthand and observing how they make their own clothes, grow their own food and have little markets to make money.”

Students in the Cultural Social Service Engagement Practicum traveled to Australia for two weeks and learned about indigenous people groups there.

The group took cultural tours with elders of indigenous tribes and heard from University of Sydney researchers.

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