Missions Week comes to Lee University
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This week, Oct. 24 - 28, is Missions Week at Lee University, when missionaries and ministry organizations from all over the world come and share their stories and experiences. For the past 25 years, Lee has dedicated one week of the school year to Dee Lavender Missions Week.
“Missions Week is an important time on campus,” Lee University senior Rebekah Mura said. “Hearts and minds of the students and faculty are focused on the service and projects taking place worldwide that bring relief to people in need, as well as spread the light of Christ in forsaken regions.”
There will be display booths, exhibits and guest speakers in classes to learn more about the organizations or projects that students can get involved with.
The chapel services for the week will focus on the 2016 missions project, the Phebe Grey Orphanage in Liberia, according to Lee’s website.
Students help raise money through the sales of T-shirts, where 100 percent of the prophet goes to the mission project of the orphanage for the second year in a row.
“Improvements have been made at [Phebe Grey Orphanage],” according to the Church of God World Missions website. “The orphanage is one of the places where children are cared for, where education is valued . . . and where the ever-present mindset is that Jesus is their provider.”
At the start of each year a new T-shirt design is given to the students, and they have the option to purchase or sell these shirts throughout the school year.
“I live off campus, and I saw someone wearing it, and I went straight to Jimmy Harper’s office to buy one for myself,” junior Grace Kuhlman said. “The T-shirts are amazing! They are so comfortable and designed really well.”
To support Missions Week, students can visit the booths in the Paul Conn Student Union, attend chapels and support this year's missions project by purchasing a Missions Week T-shirt for 15 dollars at the Campus Ministries office in the Conn Center.
Mura felt that it was important that Lee University brings actual missionaries to speak of their experiences.
“Students who are interested in missions or just want to learn more are provided with a gateway of wise perspective into the challenging, yet admirable field of mission ministry,” Mura said.
