By Cara Leahy, Student Reporter "Life-changing" and "opened my eyes" are phrases ACU students used in recent surveys to describe previous Spring Break campaigns. These campaigns are international and domestic trips allowing participants to serve the needs of people across the globe. Those interested in signing up for this year's campaigns can ... [Read More…]
Campaigners positive despite drop in options
By Laura Acuff, Opinion Editor While Spring Break Campaign 2009 planners initially hoped for about 60 leaders for 30 campaigns, the 50 leaders appointed for this year's campaigns remains proportionate to the also lower number of finalized locations with 25 destinations on this year's agenda. "We wanted more locations and more leaders, but neither ... [Read More…]
Spring Break Campaigns offer students alternate ways to serve during holiday
By Kimberly Prather, Student Reporter The Spring Break Campaign lottery system gives students a shot at participating in the campaign of their choice as groups begin to form in preparation for this ACU spring break tradition. Monday the lottery process started in the Campus Center where students bought a ticket and then proceeded online to www. ... [Read More…]
Know your boundaries this spring break
All week students heard to make good choices and to know boundaries. While this usually results in many students tuning out, the advice and approach of this year's Making Choices Week has served as a reminder of safe thinking before spring break more than a preachy list of do's and don'ts. About 400 students will be part of Spring Break ... [Read More…]
Spring Break Campaigns carry on tradition
ACU Students have impacted more than 100 different locations throughout the United States and the world through Spring Break Campaigns in the past three years. Each year, about 500 students participate, making these campaigns one of the most popular activities on campus. ACU Spring Break Campaigns represent an active response to the Great ... [Read More…]
About 400 sign up for Spring Break Campaigns
By Mitch Holt, Opinion Editor Students put their interest to practice and signed up for Spring Break Campaigns in the Living Room of the Campus Center last Thursday, filling all of the spots in many of the campaign groups. Students paid a $25 sign-up fee that covered some administrative costs and then took part in a sign-up process different from ... [Read More…]
Campaign leaders look forward to their assignments
By Kelline Linton, Staff Writer All leaders for this year's Spring Break Campaigns have been chosen and assigned their respective locations. The locations of the campaigns are national and international and encourage students to serve a global need. The Spring Break Campaign committee added two new groups this year that focus on hurricane ... [Read More…]
More than 70 selected to lead mission trips during spring break
By Mallory Sherwood, Staff Writer Melanie Morrison remembers the first homeless person she met in Chicago while on a Spring Break Campaign. The experience changed her life in 2002, and she has been returning ever since as both a campaigner and a Spring Break Campaign leader. "I watched God working in the lives of not only the homeless and the ... [Read More…]
Hundreds traveled for Spring Break Campaigns, and some found …’Spiritual renewal’
By Jonathan Smith, Managing Editor From hitchhikers to homosexuality and from Honolulu to Honduras, Spring Break Campaigns 2004 spread out across North, Central and South America last week, dealing with a plethora of issues in 30 different cities or countries. Some campaigns had detailed plans about the work they would be doing. Some of those ... [Read More…]
Campaigns need participants to curb losses
By Jaci Schneider, Staff Writer Seven Spring Break Campaigns could lose hundreds of dollars if a few more students do not join them and cover remaining expenses. Leaders of campaigns to New Jersey, Maine, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Honduras and Abilene said they are hoping more people will join the 489 students who will spend their spring ... [Read More…]