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BAPTIST COLLEGIATE MINISTRY HELPS THE COMMUNITY Jackson Carlstrom Staff Writer Spring break gives college students the chance to take a break from their classes and studies, allowing them to relax halfway through the spring semester. But for the students who helped with the Baptist Collegiate Ministry’s spring break mission trip, the first half of spring break served as a time to volunteer and reach out to the community. The BCM Spring Break Mission Trip is an annual event held on the weekend of the beginning of Spring Break. For the previous two years, as a result of COVID, BCM’s mission trips have been local trips helping those throughout the Americus community.
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Throughout the 2022 BCM spring mission trip, students helped the community by working to repair and restore the homes of families who needed help, volunteering at different churches, and helping at the Fuller Center for Housing. Alongside helping the larger Americus community, BCM also hosted a GSW International Students night, with several of GSW’s international students attending the event. BCM students and international students who attended were given a great opportunity to get to interact with each other over a meal and build connections and bonds, as well as learn more about each other’s backgrounds and what brought them to Georgia Southwestern. One of the many locations students volunteered at was a small Hispanic church in Preston, GA. Students got to interact with some of the church’s children, leading them in Sunday school. After leading Sunday school, the BCM students got to attend the church’s Sunday service and experience first-hand what a service in a Hispanic church is like. “It was so great to be in the community I live in and have the opportunity to help those who are hurting in the community instead of spending my spring break sitting at home all day like I would most spring breaks,” Colby Peavy said. “We actually just got to go back to one of the houses we worked on recently, and I can really see how God worked through us and brought a new sense of joy in that woman’s life.” The students who helped BCM with their mission trip were able to accomplish a lot over the course of five days, using their free time to help those in need in Americus.
