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Students register for domestic, international campaigns

November 4, 2009 by Special Contributor

By Brittany Brand

 

Spring Break Campaign signups began this week offering students 16 national and four international campaign destination choices for the holiday break.

The registration process began Monday and will continue through Thursday. Registration is accomplished through a lottery system, and lottery tickets are available to interested students immediately after Chapel throughout the week in the Campus Center. Students are then required to visit the SBC Web site to register with their lottery number.

Ben Rogers, senior finance major from Athens, said students will be allowed to register for their desired SBC location in the Campus Center on Thursday based on the time designated on their ticket number.

However, a lower lottery number does not guarantee and earlier signup time. Series of tickets will be selected at random; for example, 001-050 might be the second troup to sign up, said Daniel Burgner, an SBC committee member.

According to the SBC Web site, spots will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis with preference given to current students.

The campaigns to Denver and Guatemala usually fill up fastest, Burgner said. The trip to Guatemala is a medical mission trip offered through the premedicine program; it requires a separate application.

Seattle is the largest campaign with 26 spots available. The other campaigns have room for 10-20 people.

Burgner, senior political science major from Yorba Linda, Calif., said the trips are not limited to undergraduate students. Faculty, graduate students and even those who do not attend ACU may participate. Burgner will lead the campaign to Honduras this year.

“SBC really are an act of ACU to create leaders to spread the word of Christ,” Burgner said.

The campaigns are about service, and campaigners do “everything from building churches to entertaining children to feeding the homeless and spreading the love of Christ by serving others and shining his light into a darkened world,” according to the SBC Web site.

“I like travel and seeing how God is acting in different places,” Rogers said. Rogers, a senior finance major from Athens, will be leading a campaign to Boston this year.

The international campaigns will travel to Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The campaigns within the nation include: Boulder, Colo.; Chicago; Corpus Christi; Denver; Huntington Beach, Calif.; Boston; Houston; New Orleans; Manchester, N.Y.; Seattle; Patchogue, N.Y.; St. Paul, Minn.; Atlanta; Miami; Salem and Washington D.C. Campaigns vary in price, ranging from Houston at $250 to Nicaragua at $1450.

For more information visit www.acu.edu/sbc.

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