By Mallory Morrison
Staff Writer
Atlanta, Georgia; Detroit, Michigan; San Diego, California; and Cyvadier, Haiti, are a few of the places around the world that Bryan College students are headed for spring break this week.
The students going on this trip are giving up their spring break to go on a student-led short-term mission trip called Break for Change, or BFC. According to the Bryan College website, these mission programs cultivate long-term relationships with ministry partners across America and around the world to give students, staff and faculty annual opportunities to serve alongside local missionaries in inner city neighborhoods, community centers, and churches.
“I am not 100 percent sure what to expect. I am terrified and excited to go!” said Ryan Miller, a sophomore traveling to Cyvadier for BFC.
Her team is going to be patterning with the Hands and Feet Project whose mission is to care for the orphaned and the abandoned children of the world with the love of Christ. They will be playing with children all week and serving in the orphanages.
Unlike the other BFC trips, the trip to Haiti involves a business element. The team will be the Hands and Feet’s fresh set of eyes as they help come up with items that the women and children in Haiti can make out of the natural resources that are make readily available to them and then sell.
The Haiti BFC team flies out of Atlanta Saturday and returns a week later. Malaria and typhoid fever vaccinations were recommended for the team members before they embarked on the trip. They will have a three and a half hour flight followed by a four hour bus ride to the Hands and Feet compound, a safe area that is well secured.
Miller says, “I cannot wait to see how God uses the team to bring Him glory.”