During Spring Break each year, Geneva College’s Center for Faith and Practice (CFP) organizes multiple short-term mission trips. These Quest Trips are designed to encourage discussion and reflection on service and social justice issues. And after working in one of these communities, students often become involved in area ministries during the rest of their time at Geneva.
"Each trip is a little bit different, but the focus of all the trips is to provide an opportunity for students to serve, listen and learn from the places they are visiting," said Missy Nyeholt, Director of the CFP.
From March 6-16, 2015, students will be participating in teams traveling to locations including Aliquippa, PA; Pittsburgh; Miami; New Orleans; and Washington D.C.
The trip to Aliquippa will include service work at the Uncommon Grounds Café, ROOTS, the Franklin Center and Aliquippa Impact. Students traveling to Pittsburgh will live in Ministry House and engage a neighborhood suffering from segregation and poverty through the Homewood Bible Center Church′s Spring Urban Ministry Opportunity (SUMO) program. Those on the Miami trip will work with the Life of Freedom Center, an outreach organization helping, healing and raising awareness about human sex trafficking.
In New Orleans, students from Geneva have worked with the Trinity Christian Community since 2006 in response to Hurricane Katrina, and will be returning to help continue restoration of the city.
Students traveling to Washington D.C. will be visiting organizations which deal with social justice issues such as human trafficking, poverty and disease. Their focus will be to learn how they can live more justly and better love their local and global neighbors.
Sophomore Zac Hummel went on the New Orleans trip last Spring Break and will be a student leader for the trip this year. He says, “I look forward to revisiting the Hollygrove neighborhood, immersing myself in a different culture and experiencing the changes the Lord has enacted in the neighborhood in the past 12 months."
Junior Myriah Farmer will be going on the Pittsburgh trip. She believes that Quest trips have helped her to get out of her comfort zone. “I’m looking forward to meeting people who are intentional about building God’s kingdom where they live.”
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