By Caitlyn Parrish
BPC Staff Writer
MOUNT VERNON— This past summer, several Brewton-Parker students had the opportunity to go on mission trips through Send Me Now Missions. Send Me Now, a part of the Collegiate Missions of the Georgia Baptist Mission Board, provides Georgia college students with the opportunity to go on missions trips all over the world. Students can apply to go on these trips and if chosen, Send Me Now will connect them to a ministry and give them the location they will be ministering in. Through the fundraising efforts of the students’ colleges and other Baptist Collegiate Ministries in Georgia, students’ trips are funded entirely by Send Me Now.
Photo above: Senior Lauren Clinton (center) ministers to children during her summer mission trip to Helen, Georgia.
MaShawn Knight, a Junior Communications and English major, was able to minister to the people of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil leading up to the 2016 Summer Olympics. While there he did urban evangelism. Knight credits the trip with teaching him “to look for God every day because He is everywhere.”
Senior Christian Studies major Olivia Brantley spent two weeks of her summer in Georgetown, South Carolina helping with disaster relief. Brantley and her team worked to make repairs on two homes that had been ruined. They also spent some time in local neighborhoods getting to know the people and forming relationships. She says that the trip “helped restore my joy and faith in people.”
Photo below left to right: MaShawn Knight, Olivia Brantley, Lauren Clinton, Jeffrey Covington.
Lauren Clinton, a Senior Early Childhood Education major from Jacksonville, Florida, was able to minister to the people of Helen, Georgia this past summer on her first mission trip. While in Helen, she worked primarily with children; painting faces, making balloon animals, and handing out Bibles. Clinton says that from the trip she learned that “even if you don’t see immediate results from serving the Lord, that does not mean you are not making an impact on people.”
Jeffrey Covington, a Junior Music major went to Toccoa Falls, Georgia to help with the Surge 150 Music Camp. While there, he worked with children from the third grade to college freshmen during their recreation time. Covington says he was “reminded of what it is like to have the faith of a child. Seeing the joy of the Lord in the eyes of those kids brought such joy to my life.”