2011 Miracle Yearbook

MISSIONS TRIPS Mission Involvement Services sent four teams to four different countries over Spring Break, and they each had opportunities to serve in unique ways. Assistant Professor of Finance Jeff Guernsey led business students from SIFE to Bolivia. Brian Nester, Director of MIS, said this was the first team to go to Bolivia since he has been working with MIS. On their trip, students did a business analysis for a business that World Venture missionaries had started. Another team went to Mexico to do camps for missionary kids. Nester said this trip has been repeated for the last eight years. The team did a camp for eight to twelve-year-olds and a camp for those thirteen and up. Nester said some missionary kids who were in the United States flew back to Mexico just so they could attend the camp. Sophomore Ruthie Ray said the team that went to Peru to help at childcare centers "really bonded" and "created friendships that hopefully will last a lifetime.""The most memorable moment was when our leader, Ken, was trying to tell the kids to sit down, or sentarse, but instead, he kept saying siete, or seven. The poor kids were so confused because they couldn't understand why he was yelling the number seven at them!" Eleuthera in the Bahamas was the destination of the fourth team. They ministered to kids and through construction. Two ofthe people who hosted the team were Cedarville graduates. Though Nester didn't go on a Spring Break trip and usually doesn't, he said a highlight for him is sending off and picking up the teams. He likes to meet them at the airport when they return. "I get to hear their stories right off the plane," Nester said. "I like to hear their stories right off the plane:' (Brian Nester) Involved studentsfrom the show off their tools on their mission trip to HCJB Global. , with other members of her ministry team,takes her spring break to serve the residents of Shepherds Home. bonds with the children in the village Maai Mahiu while student teaching in Kenya. leads a team of students, including ,on a trip to Bolivia. 9