2023/2024 Service Learning Trips

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Spring Break Trips

Canton, OH

Experience living, learning, and serving in an urban Christian community development setting in Canton, OH. Learn about and serve within various programs and ministries that serve and empower Canton residents, right in our own city! 

This trip is open to all students regardless of major.

Trip Leader: Alicia McCleod
Trip Cost: $200


Guatemala

Serve and learn with Hospital Shalom in Sanbenito, Guatemala.

You will experience the local Guatemalan culture while serving through assisting local leadership in providing holistic care for community members from all economic backgrounds, as you live out the gospel and community development principles and practices. 

Proof of COVID vaccination is required for all trip participants. 

Students should register for SOSC 212A and SOSC 213B for Pendle Hill and GEN ED credit. 
Upper class nursing students should register for NURS 402. 
(If a nursing major, they should take the credit required by the nursing department.)

Trip available for Nursing and other Health Related Majors
 
Trip Leaders: Rebekah Portillo and Leah Jablonski
Cost: $2,000
 

Kimball, West Virginia

You will learn and serve with the Mennonite Central Committee in a unique area of West Virginia, as a majority Black "island" in a predominately white region. Through clean up and repairs, your work with support the rehabilitation of the Dismukes Hospital Project historical site, while learning about the experiences of Black Americans in the South during the Jim Crow era.

This trip is open to all students regardless of major.

Leaders: Dr. Jacci Stuckey and Andrea Ramsey
Trip Dates: March 1-6
Cost: $500
 

Navajo Nation

Students will spend a week within the Navajo nation serving RezRefuge’s after school program while learning about, and building relationships with, people native who cultivated the land well before the founding of the United States. 

Students should register for SOSC 212A and SOSC 213B for Pendle Hill and GEN ED credit. 
Upper class nursing students should register for NURS 402. 

Trip available for Nursing and other Health Related Majors.

Trip Leaders: Jack Harris and Jessica Swartz 
Cost: $2,025


May Trips

Brazil

We will spend ten days in Sao Paulo, Brazil, alongside a Malone professor, Dr. Eb DeOliveira from Brazil, who will show you the beauty, life and tastes of his own culture, while you live, learn and serve within the community. Students will serve and learn alongside a local church ministry, Igreja Presbiteriana da Penha, learning about local Brazilian culture while doing community outreach with a local ministry and school. The outreach will be specialized and developed based on the areas of study of the group. There may be an opportunity to recruit Brazilian students from Pan American Christian University to Malone!
 
This trip is open to all students regardless of major.
 
Students should register for SOSC 212A in Spring of 2023 and SOSC 213A in Fall of 2023 for Pendle Hill and GEN ED credit.

Trip Leaders: Dr. Eb DeOliveira and Shawn Campbell
Cost: $2200
 

Kenya

Kenya is a diverse place in its history, people, culture, and geography and we experience that diversity in powerful ways as we work, worship, play, and eat together. We will work with Rift Valley Hope, learning the stories of local community members and coming alongside the staff as they minister to these people in a wide range of ways, including regular worship services, weekly free meals, safe houses for girls and boys, job training for women, and providing hope and encouragement. 
 
We will record the stories of people who are being ministered to by RVH staff as a way of processing their past and present experiences. As we do that we will meet and pray with the people, worship with them, and be transformed as we consider our own stories in relationship to fellow Christians in another part of the world. We will engage the beauty of God’s creation as we spend several days on a safari observing wild animals and birds.
 
This trip is open to all students regardless of major.
 
Students should register for SOSC 212A in Spring of 2023 and SOSC 213A in Fall of 2023 for Pendle Hill and GEN ED credit.

Approximate Dates: May 5-17, 2024
Trip Leaders: Drs. Jay Case and Marcia Everett
Cost: $3,300
 

Romania

Students will spend 2-3 weeks in Sighisoara, Romania, a historical medieval city, known as the birthplace of Vladimir Tepes (known as Dracula). You will experience the local culture through hands-on learning experiences and living with host families. You will serve with Veritas Sighisoara, a Christian ministry that serves at-risk children, their families, older adults, and people with disabilities. While serving, you will work alongside local Romanian leadership and learn about a model of missions and community development ministry that emphasizes local leadership.

This trip is led by Elizabeth Patterson Roe, Ph.D., who lived and served with Veritas Sighisoara for six years prior to becoming a Malone faculty member.

Students should register for SOSC 212A in Spring of 2023 and SOSC 213A in Fall of 2023 for Pendle Hill and GEN ED credit.

Approximate Date: May 13-June 4, 2024
Trip Cost: $3,300