Students to give back during spring break

Many students across campus are uniting with local churches and other organizations to give during spring break mission trips.

Students are heading to McAllen and San Antonio, Texas, as well as Cambodia for mission trips with Edmond Church of Christ, Memorial Road Church of Christ, and an organization named Angkor of Faith.

Sophomore Abby Hudkins is participating in the Cambodia trip with a group of fifteen students and the sponsor Ben Langford.

“We are joining a group that already goes every year called Angkor of Faith,” Hudkins said. “People come from a bunch of different countries like Japan, Australia, Philippines.”

Hudkins and her group members will be spending most of their time leading a vacation Bible school and teaching children proper hygiene.

The group is leaving leaving on Friday at noon and is driving to Dallas to fly to Cambodia.

Sophomore Megan Fuller, an intern at Memorial Road Church of Christ, junior Allana Reams-Hodge, and Dean of Spiritual Life Jeff McMillon will be leading a group heading to San Antonio, Texas.

“We are going to be working with Habitat for Humanity and we are going to build some houses,” Reams-Hodge said. “We stayed in this hotel and it was across the street from the river walk. And so we would wake up in the morning and work all day till about 3:30 p.m. then come back to the hotel and just relax and hang by the pool.”

Memorial Road’s San Antonio trip was born after their annual Mexico mission trip was canceled.

“I think this is our 7th year and it all started as an accident because we would go to Mexico every year and the city where we would go in Mexico had some serious drug violence,” McMillon said. “The elders in our church said that its probably not the best idea any more. Our interns had to get on the phones and had to start calling everywhere. We finally stumbled onto habitat for humanity and we found this random hotel on the river walk.”

Fuller said this mission trip is a great way to make positive relationships with new people.

“It is like the best week of your life honestly, because it is a really good mix of going and serving and also building a community within the group,” Fuller said. “Because there are people that you probably don’t know that you can get to know pretty well.”

Edmond Church of Christ is taking a group to McAllen, Texas. Sophomore Colten Sikes, an intern for Edmond Church of Christ, said this trip should be something fun for students to do over their spring break.

“Being an intern, we help organize it a little bit more and there will be a couple of projects that we have in the community,” Sikes said. “Some will be construction, some will be VBS style stuff and we have about 5 days in McAllen and then we are going to move on to San Antonio.”

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