"Bethany sends team of 25 on India missions outreach"

This past May, Bethany University sent a team of twenty-five people, consisting of twenty-one students, two staff and two missionaries-in-residence to a two-week educational volunteering mission to Calcutta, India.

From the moment students arrived in the country, they began volunteering for the local church's feeding program that serves 2,000 people per meal, 6 days a week!

Throughout the weekdays the team spent a good 5 hours each day leading groups of children (of all ages up to about 13) through various children's summer camp activities. From large group entertainment, comedic dramas, singing and learning words in many languages, playing games, pupperteer-ing, theatrical story-telling, craft-making, and eating snacks, they packed in as much fun, singing, learning, and energy- sapping activity into every possible weekday morning.

The core team began to make their way back to the States, one student, LaDawn Rance, stayed behind to fulfill an eight week teaching internship one of the educational programs in the area. For the past four years LaDawn has been studying in the in intercultural child Development Major at Bethany. During that time she completed extensive work in the field of early education as well as inter cultural relations

Ladawn is one of many students from Bethany's Child Development Program who have interned in such locations as Romania, Hong Kong, Kenya, Uganda, Tonga, Switzerland, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, El Salvador, Scotland, New Zealand and now India. Intercultural awareness, one of the five key outcomes that Bethany University seeks to develop in students, is exemplified each year as groups of student engage in various ministries around the world.