The Halbert Center for Missions and Global Service will conclude the annual Missions Week on Friday.

Missions week is an annual week-long event for a variety of activities to connect students with Christian missions work locally and around the globe, said Jonothan Stein, the global service coordinator.

“It’s an opportunity for God’s mission to be presented to the ACU campus to encourage participation in God’s mission,” Stein said. “We want ‘to partner with students in going locally, domestically or internationally, to do what God’s calling them.’

This year’s theme for the week is “people over projects.” Stein hopes that students understand that although a mission trip may have a specific project for students to work on, the main goal behind every trip is to build relationships.

“What we want to do is people-centered things,” Stein said. “How are we building relationships? Who are we getting to know? How are we connecting with people’s lives for the kingdom?”

The week included chapels related to mission work, a non-profit fair, a game night, a worship night and concluded with a World Wide Witness launch party.

World Wide Witness is a summer internship program that allows two to four students to travel to another country and work on a project over the course of the summer. At the launch party, students could apply for the program and enter a drawing for a scholarship. Applications for the shorter mission trips, Wildcat Academics on Missions, closed on Wednesday, although students may still apply to department-specific trips on a case-by-case basis.

Ashlyn Wright, a student employee for the Halbert Center, spent two and a half months in Thailand.

“I just wanted to go on the trip to see what missions was like and just to serve,” said Wright, senior psychology and Spanish major from Euless. “I didn’t know if I would have that opportunity again, and I had such an impactful experience.”