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Short-term mission. Long-term vision.

We provide you with global opportunities to explore ministry and vocation as an expression of the Kingdom of God. We are witness that the Spirit is active and moving through short-term efforts and it is our hope that you will creatively utilize your unique gifts and passion as you share the gospel through service and ministry. Our long-term strategy ensures our volunteers go back year after year, joining the same communities, deepening relationships, and developing best practices for engagement.

Explore Our Missions

Our teams go all over the world and engage communities in a variety of ways. Most of our teams are open for anyone to apply. Many of our discipline-specific teams, like engineering and medical, may have a need for non-major team members as well. Explore the possibilities and find the team for you in the following ways:

See University Teams  See Academy Teams

  • Attend our Missions Fair on Tuesday, September 12, 2023 
  • Talk to past participants
  • Email us at missions@lipscomb.edu
  • Come by the Missions Center in Ezell 238 and visit with our staff
  • Read our Student Handbook, which includes information on fundraising, policies, expectations, timelines, and more

Give to Missions

Team or participant

We do not want financial restraints to prohibit trip participation. Give to a team or a participant and help students reach their fundraising goal. Donations are non-refundable.

Teams  

Support our program

Giving to Missions Development financially supports team leader training, student internships, recruiting events, marketing materials, and all the operations that help strengthen our partnerships on campus, in our city, and around the world. Donations are non-refundable.

Missions Development Fund

Make a payment

Any non-donations, whether paying for your personal trip or making a returnable payment, should be done here. 

Payment           

Campus partners

Lipscomb Academy students pose in front of Kayenta Church of Christ in Arizona.

Academy

High school students at Lipscomb Academy have the opportunity to serve on faculty-led domestic and international mission trips during breaks from class (fall, winter, spring break, summer).

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Students cool down after a sports day.

Athletics

Lipscomb student-athletes serve on a variety of mission teams each year, both specific to their status as student-athletes and general trips open to all. Initiatives within Athletics Missions send student-athletes and coaches to partner with what God is doing all over the country and the world.

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Business as Mission students help renovate a small business in Jamaica.

Business

The Center for Business as Mission serves as a hub for the academic study of Business as Mission and for connecting students to local and global opportunities to engage and apply what is being learned in the classroom.

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Engineering students complete work on a bridge.

Engineering

The Raymond B. Jones College of Engineering and Peugeot Center for Engineering Service to Developing Communities will send multiple teams throughout the year to different host partners with a long term vision for sustainable community development. From pedestrian bridges and clean water systems to wastewater treatment systems and therapeutic playgrounds, engineering students, faculty and corporate supporters have ventured off the traditional blueprints to touch the lives of families and communities around the globe.

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A professional dentist and a Lipscomb nursing student work in a mobile clinic in Guatemala.

Health Sciences

Lipscomb's College of Health Sciences offers mission trip opportunities, led by their faculty, for their Kinesiology, Nursing, Nutrition, and Physician Assistant students.

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Meet the Missions Department

Tyler Kemmerer

Tyler Kemmerer, Director of Lipscomb Missions

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Andrea Zahler

Andrea Zahler, Associate Director of Spiritual Engagement and Development

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Johanna Newsome

Johanna Newsome, Program Coordinator

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Candice Meadows

Candice Meadows, Finance & Logistics Coordinator

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