The Baptist Foundation of South Carolina gives grant to Intercultural Studies Department
Meghan Salinas, Staff Writer
Photo by: Meghan Salinas
God calls his children to go out and make disciples, right?
The Baptist Foundation of South Carolina is providing North Greenville University students who truly feel like they are called to pursue a career on the missionary field with a $10,000 grant.
Graphic courtesy of Devan Trout
Allen McWhite, Director of the Center for Cross-Cultural Engagement and Global Leadership program, said that this foundation has been giving to the Intercultural Studies department for the last 10 years. The Baptist Foundation of South Carolina is providing students who truly feel like they are called to pursue a career on the missionary field with a $10,000 grant. The grant has gone to help aid short term missions and also has helped build Baptists schools in the Middle East in the past as well.
All Intercultural Studies majors are required to serve on the mission field for at least a month and the trips are mostly student funded. That is why this grant means everything to this department. Intercultural Studies majors must take classes in church planning strategies, leadership development, prayer strategy and also children/youth ministry.
These students are willing to raise thousands of dollars to share God’s word to the people who have never heard Jesus’s name before. The Intercultural Studies department has taken students every year to places like Orlando, Canada, Guatemala and Ecuador.
McWhite ended with this verse found in Acts 1:8, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
