Over 100 students have been applying each week since the beginning of February, for our 70 planned Summer Mission Trips! Right now we have 1,786 Summer Mission applicants in our system, and 618 accepted! If all the students who are ready for application review right now end up accepted, we would already be well over 800 students for this summer…and it is still March!

This has been super encouraging for us coming out of a very challenging year, into a summer with many unknowns. Budgeting for these trips is very difficult when you have to plan for potential quarantine or isolation situations. But, team leaders are dong it! One team even said that if they had to reduce the number of students on their trip to comply with regulations, “we would raise support to keep the same prices for students.” (emphasis mine) What a generous, missionary heart!

We have never seen the amount of collaboration and communication that we have this year among our team leaders and across domestic and international mission trips. When a location cannot host a team because of COVID-19 restrictions, they have connected with other teams in different locations to reroute or join together.

Scott has been helping to approve Summer Mission contingency plans, develop crisis protocol for our trips, guide team leaders as they make decisions about accepting students to their mission, and ensuring teams are fully staffed.

Thank YOU for praying and funding all we are doing to see more and more college students sent out to make Jesus known among the nations! 

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Praise & Prayer Requests!

Family Requests:

Please pray for our family to enjoy the last few months of Sarah’s senior year (and of Becky homeschooling her). Also, for Sarah as she solidifies her next steps!