Lancaster Bible College’s many travel experiences help students shape their worldview by experiencing the world. As students broaden their horizons, they deepen their relationship with God through study abroad options. Travel opportunities give students the chance to visit new places, experience other cultures and expand their education. Usually offered annually, trips or tours are short-term opportunities with long-term impact that enrich student learning through experiences grounded in a biblical worldview and service.
2024 Journey Team Trips
Each year, LBC Journey Teams travel to the furthest corners of the world to live out the gospel message by bringing hope to the hopeless. Whether working at an orphanage in Haiti, helping to build a church in Jamaica, teaching English in Germany, doing sports camps in the Philippines or being involved in street evangelism in Thailand, the service of these teams leave a lasting impact on the places they visit and the people they meet—not to mention on the lives of the individual team members. Trips are planned throughout the year and are open to all LBC students to participate.
Journey Teams need two things to be successful—those who go and those who give. Even those who do not physically attend a trip can still play an important role by supporting a team member. Each individual on a team needs to raise a designated amount for their trip; for some students, that can be difficult. By coming alongside an LBC student with a monetary gift, generous donors are essentially members of the Journey Team. Learn more about giving toward a trip here.
The LBC men’s soccer team with minister with Ivan Correa (’20) and his wife, Leticia, this spring in Brazil.
Brazil
The LBC men’s soccer team will work alongside alumnus Ivan Correa (’20) and his wife, Leticia, as part of Word of Life to minister to children through Vacation Bible School, an orphanage ministry and soccer clinic in Recife, Brazil, May 4-11, 2024.
Kenya
Set for May 4-19, 2024, students embarking on this trip will partner with The Kenya Project in Nakuru, Kenya. This ministry located in the Rift Valley has a school of approximately 550 students and an orphanage housing about 90.
LBC students will work alongside teachers, assisting in the classroom, with many other options besides teaching to serve within this large ministry, such as a technical school, sports and grounds. A safari is also planned, as the ministry is close to several amazing national parks.
Thailand
On the calendar for May 14-27, 2024 and led by Dr. Ed Scheuerman, Director of the Intercultural Studies program, this team will engage in various ministry opportunities, such as assisting a local church planting team in a Thai village, encouraging local missionaries, assisting in a vacation Bible school at a local church, learning about Buddhism, prayer walking, learning about how to care for missionaries serving overseas, assisting with ESL lessons with Thai college students and helping with a wheelchair ministry.