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Gallery: MSA hosts WorldWide Witness Launch Party

October 6, 2023 by Sarah Thompson

ACU's MSA Missions Week hosts a WorldWide Witness Launch Party in the Campus Mall. This year's launch party included refreshments, information tables, recreational games, and mission trip scholarship applications. Directors and MSA Student Officers collaborated to inform students about missions through the success of the launch party. ... [Read More…]

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WorldWide Witness prepares to send students on missions

March 25, 2015 by Josh Levinson

Fifty-four students in the WorldWide Witness mission trip program will soon pack their bags and gear up for their adventures. Each summer, WWW sends many students on six- to 10-week mission internship excursions to various locations across the world. Larry Henderson, WWW missions coordinator, said students are placed under the leadership of ... [Read More…]

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Worldwide Witness trains interns for summer work

April 8, 2014 by Catherine Blakemore

The missions department at ACU and Worldwide Witness are preparing to send students out as interns around the world for various ministry opportunities this summer. Worldwide Witness is a program that allows students interested in ministry to gain experience and go to different cultures and put ministry into practice. Larry Henderson, the ... [Read More…]

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WWW accepting applications for summer

December 5, 2012 by Kirsten Holman

Applications for World Wide Witness are officially due Jan. 14 for summer of 2013, but the application process has already begun. WWW provides ACU students with the opportunity to travel to other parts of the world and be ambassadors for Christ. World Wide Witness also sends students to places within the United States. Through these summer ... [Read More…]

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WWW sends more than 70 students on mission trips

September 19, 2012 by Maggie Marshall

73 ACU students took two months out of their summer to live in another country. Sent out by the WorldWide Witness organization, these students took part in camps, medical missions, volunteered at orphanages, aided in language learning and many other missions. Since the organization's founding, more than 600 students have been sent around the ... [Read More…]

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Students encouraged to apply for WorldWide Witness

October 6, 2004 by Mallory Sherwood Schlabach

By Mallory Sherwood, Staff Writer Last summer, Justin Tuggle wanted to see what mission work was all about. He spent 10 weeks in Chiang Mai, Thailand, evangelizing to university students alongside other Christians on campus, and he discovered something. "Foreign missions is exciting," said Tuggle, graduate student in Bible from Edmond, Okla. ... [Read More…]

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