Out of an awareness of their identity as humans created in God’s image, your child will begin to see all people on earth as created in that image.
Lipscomb Academy’s missions program benefits from the expertise and resources of Lipscomb University, which coordinates more than 500 students per year participating in more than 50 trips around the globe. Tapping into the university’s resources, allows us to provide more affordable travel options, risk insurance, seasoned team leaders, strong partnerships with organizations around the world and valuable perspective on how each trip can transform your child’s social existence in the world into an expression of Christ’s transforming work in every place where relationships exist.
Our goal is to provide HIGH quality experiences for our students while also making a meaningful impact for our host partners. We want our students to be well trained prior to their experience and we train our team leaders in how to prepare their teams before the trip AND how to walk through the experience with them. Academy Missions also works to provide a wide variety of service opportunities so that our students can use their God-given gifts in different ways through our program.
As students embark on our trips, they partake in a range of types of mission work. From building homes and renovating classrooms, to running teen retreats & Vacation Bible Schools, to hosting medical clinics, whatever our students may be doing with their hands and feet is an opportunity to be the body of Christ. As students "go and do", we continue to see them experience the relational nature of the Gospel.
Academy Missions began unofficially in 2012 with 2 students traveling with a faculty member to Baja. The program has continued to see growth as our students gain a global perspective. In the 2018-2019 school year, over 120 students and team leaders served on an Academy Mission team. Join our community as we follow the Spirit into what we are being called into.
To obtain more information or register your child for a Lipscomb Academy mission trip, contact Dr. Douglas Williams: 615.966.6319 or douglas.williams@lipscomb.edu.
The San Francisco team works with a host partner called San Francisco City Impact. The team will stay in the City Impact dormitories and serve in the tenderloin district of San Francisco, CA. Their service is primarily focused on urban and homeless ministry working within the many different City Impact ministry points, including a medical clinic, rescue mission, and a local school. Last years inaugural team returned with incredible stories of service and worship and we can't wait to see what God has in store for our team this year.
This team will encourage, love, support, and serve alongside the Siempre Familia Iglesia de Cristo, joining Manuel & Nancy Gonzalez in their ministry in the Hispanic community of Rosemont in Fort Worth. Siempre Familia is a domestic church plant of Great Cities Missions, an organization focused on training and placing missionaries and church planting throughout Latin America.
The trip will consist of community and church engagement in a variety of ways, including Bible studies, youth/teen activities, sharing meals together, visiting in homes of church members, and more. Additional activities may vary based on the skill sets and passions of team members, as well as the current needs of Siempre Familia - historically, a manual labor project or two have been part of the trip.
Lipscomb Academy partners with Manna Global Ministries for a week long mission trip to serve the Dominican people of Bobita and Rio San Juan. Our work consists of spending time playing with and encouraging the kids and Staff of Manna Children's Home as well as the students of Manna Christian School a 10th-12th grade high school. During our time in the DR we conduct a VBS in Bobita and have community events that help encourage the local church as well as help conduct activities at the Rio San Juan Inner City Children's Ministry program. We are involved in work projects that contribute to the continuing expansion of Manna Global Ministries.
The Navajo mission trip is a journey to serve the Navajo people in many different ways. Each year is different depending on what the people or the church need that year. That can range from planting trees, digging trenches, painting houses, and more. This team will worship, eat, have Bible studies, and fellowship with the Navajo people and their children while there. After serving and working, the beautiful Navajo landscape serves as a reminder of God as Creator. The team has the opportunity to adventure on the landscape while serving and loving the Navajo people and the church.
The Guatemala Team travels to a Rio Honodo, a smaller city outside of Guatemala City and works with the Biblical Institute of Central America, or BICA for short. BICA works to train and equip missionaries throughout Central America and when Lipscomb Academy students join them for a week they go on “campaign” and focus on evangelism. This includes door knocking and evening preaching. This team also has a unique medical component and students take turns working in the mobile medical clinic. Unlike most other medical missions our high school students are able to have hands on access to medical procedures and often take vitals themselves. They partner with our Ignite Health Sciences program to bring this unique opportunity to our community.
Our Kenya team partners with Made in the Streets to give our students a unique and powerful two week experience in Kenya. This trip is unique in a lot of ways, including that it is currently our longest trip. While serving at MITS our students stay on the MITS campus and build relationships with the students at the school. They also travel to some of the Made in the Streets bases within Nairboi to fully understand the MITS mission. In the middle of their trip they take a weekend safari to not only experience the beauty and wildlife and Africa but also to better understand the Kenyan culture. Students are guaranteed to have a unique and powerful experience in Kenya.
Testimonials
After a week of work the Baja team shows off their construction project.
"When I went on my first mission trip to Baja I was not really sure what I was expecting but I can say this, I did not think I would grow so close to a group a strangers I barely knew before that week. I thought that the only way I could communicate with the people there would be through translators, but I made so many connections with them just by our actions and I saw Gods work through all the people there and my team. I hope to grow all the relationships I made there when I go back next." - Josie Kenney, Lipscomb Academy
Friendships develop and grow each year on the DR trip
"Our time with Manna Global Ministries in the Dominican Republic is mutually encouraging for both the Dominican people as well as those of us who serve on the mission team. The relationships that we have built over the last 7+ years continue to grow every year and when we return each spring break it is a blessing to work with some group of young people and are blessed by how God has been alive and working in their lives. " - Diana Benson, Team Leader
