GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT

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Overview:

Global Engagement teams provide opportunities for students to serve nationally and internationally over fall, spring, and summer breaks. GE experiences vary in length, location, intensity, and the type of service students get to participate in, with our partner communities and host organizations. All GE experiences earn students 30 service credits.

GO. CONNECT. SERVE.

"Look at the nations and watch and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something amazing in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told." - Habakkuk 1:5

Global Engagement Teams are opportunities for you to live out the Great Commission and the Great Command. In Matthew 28, as Jesus is about to leave his ministry on earth, he commissions his disciples to continue the work that he has been doing.

Go.

Go and make disciples. Jesus is saying to his disciples to come and be a part of this work - this grand reconciliation work that is focused on bringing people back to God. To tell people of God’s goodness and mercy. As you participate in a global engagement team, you are living out the call to “Go”.

Love God. Love People.

Along with our call to “Go”, we learn about the posture we are supposed to live into in Matthew 22. In this passage, Jesus is asked what the greatest commandment is. He responds with two things: 1. Love God and 2. Love your neighbor. We are created to worship God above all else. Everything we do should point to a deep love of God. From this place, we are able to love our neighbor the way Christ wants us to love them. We are called to be love to our neighbor across the street and across the world. When you join a global engagement team, you are able to live out this great command to “love” along with the great call to “go”.

Global Engagement members will participate in pre-trip training and post-trip debriefing to focus on filtering encounters through a biblical lens. We prepare you to learn from and serve alongside long-term workers, while embracing the sensitivity required as short-term participants. These transformational experiences offer rich perspectives on how to express your faith by praying, going, sending, and welcoming others in the name of Jesus Christ.

Each year, the Office of Service and Discipleship mobilizes hundreds of students, faculty, staff, and alumni nationally and internationally, to partner with long-term and national workers to meet the whole person needs of communities. Programs include but are not limited to: community development, youth ministry, poverty alleviation, conversational English teaching, prayer ministry, mobile medical care clinics, anti-human and sex trafficking, and much more.

Our extensive recruitment, development and training process equips each participant to consider their cross-cultural experience as an integral part of their mission-lifestyle perspective.

If you have an approved medical exemption from the Accessibility and Disability Resources Office, please contact Karen Rouggly at krouggly@apu.edu to discuss your options for participation.

For more information regarding Global Engagement, please contact globalengagement@apu.edu