Harding University hosted the Global Missions Experience at Camp Tahkodah Sept. 17-20. Over 1,100 students and faculty from 12 universities and visitors from around the globe gathered at Harding University at Tahkodah for one weekend to gain hands-on missions training and experience. Missionaries from several continents delivered keynote speeches as well. According to Director of Center for World Missions GME faculty director Dr. Shawn Daggett, the theme for GME 2015 "Relentless," was chosen by the mission's faculty and a committee of 60 Harding students. "We thought how God relentlessly searches the lost, and he cares for his treasured world creation and the souls in it," Daggett said. "Our response, out ofgrace, should be to relentlessly pursue him, and how the relentless cries in the world of oppression, poverty and suffering. The relentless mission is to never give up on t1ying to reach those people." Senior Brittany Nichols, chairperson of the volunteer committee, said her goal was to inspire someone the way the keynote speakers at GME inspired her and others to be a missionary in a different countly. She said she saw God's relentless love in her semester abroad in Africa and while planning GME. "We really wanted the people at GME to feel God's love that is all-consuming and can take you anywhere and do anything," Nichols said. "It is relentless. We've used the quote, 'If those who want to go don't, then who will?' I think that's a big thing for GME. Even in the community around you, if you want to do something, and you don't do it, no one will. God is relentlessly pouring out himself for you to go do that." St11dent volunteers at G.ME pre/end to sell bca11s us purt of a11 exercise lo teach stuclenls uboul uilluge 111urkets. Another uctiuity at the euenl was a keynote scmi11ur by Ebola survivor. Dr. Kent Bra11tly. I Photo by 01.uen Brown Key components of the succcs:; of GME Relentless, HUT Marwyer James Rucker and his wife. Abigail, Imel bce11 i111•olved at HFT for u combined 8 years. I Photo by Owen Brou•rz G1\'1E uttendunls gather together Oil Sept. 19for 011 euc11ing time of worship. Lectures cove rec/ topics on minisll'y practices rangiHg from intenrntiorwl Jilm-makiny to nirn/ first uicl. I Photo by Owe11 Bron•n 202 LE.\l>EHSIIIP On the last night of GME, Greg Mckinzie, a missionary who had been working in Peru, asked the audience to come forward and place their footprint on a mural ofthe continent they wished to be long term missionaries. According to Dr. Monte Cox, dean ofthe College ofBible and Minstry, over 200 people came forward, and two-thirds were Harding students. "It's indicative how foreign missions at Harding always permeated the whole campus," Cox said. "It hasn't just been the domain of the missions department. We like that and don't want to change that." Daggett said he was blessed to work with the student committee and all they offered for the event. "The credit goes to the students," Daggett said. "This is not a professional, paid-for event. This is student-planned and student-run." By Hcmnuh Pel'ry
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NTc5NA==