~dlth Cdr~ missions dents learn about rural life in training village fourch consecutive year, Harding training in the mission field co any o" jI"~.~ , interested in world missions. Every I!!~~~! students met at Harding University at '] for a weekend program or for rhe rwo– week intercession. The HUT training village used simulations to prepare students for experiences they could encounter in a region in which they might minister. "The name of the course is Development Min– istry, so the focus is on the Christian response to the poverry of rhe world," Oneal Tankersley, mission– ary-in-residence, said. "To some, ir's an introduction to rhe rural world: walking, not having water, not having electricity. So for the period of time rhat they're out there, they're experiencing what they're probably going to experience, if rhey go, in a rural world situarion." During the program, students were exposed to the lifestyles and hardships that citizens of under– developed countries faced daily. Specific locarions were simulated, bur rhey all represemed much larger, more general areas. Haiti, Appalachia, Southeast Asia, Africa and Honduras were the groups that students were categorized into, as well as a refugees rent who were sent to be the omcasts of the society. "People are divided into 'families,'" sophomore parricipam Jonarhan Striclyn said. "The different families are sent to their new homes, then invited up to 'Africa' for a meal. After the African meal, modeled as closely as possible ro an actual African dish, the families are given work assignments which would be similar to something done in those respective areas. They earn a cereain amount of money which they can use at the market to buy food for the night. No one in the market who is selling food will speak any English, so it is challenging ro barter and buy food." Health care replications were also conducted during rhe weekend and intercession programs in order to prepare nursing majors specifically for missions. "[The pareicipanrs] did a simularion where rhere was an eanhquake in Larin America," junior nursing major Jessica Snell said. ''All of rhe orher countries had to help out, get rhem medical care and solve rhe problems that were involved, like getring paperwork, not having enough money and not having people qualified to take care of them." The directors of H UT utilized their resources as a means of preparing furure missionaries and nurses for rhe experiences rhey would likely encounter in underdeveloped regions. ''At HUT we do a lor of simulations that allow students to experience something of what it is like for people in difficult circumstances and then try to teach proper Christian responses to these problems," Tankersley said. -Lauren Mitchell Junior Amy Thomas practices her nursing skills by going over the steps of a tracheotomy in the Nursing Skills Lab on Oct. 16 in the Olen Hendrix BUilding. The NurSing Skills Class was a course every nursing major had to take during his or her first semester in the College of Nursing. -Chelsea Roberson Concentrating on their computer screens Oct. 11, seniors Holly Irvine and Jenny Cummings undergo the ATI-Comprehensive Predictor Exam in the Simmons Lab in the Olen Hendrix BUilding. All senior nursing majors were required to pass this exam in order to graduate from the nursing program. -Chelsea Roberson __JJ84 academics
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