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Summer plans reflect students' interests
Two GWU students seek opportunities internationally
Jared Smith
Issue date: 4/23/04 Section: Campus News
Two students from Gardner-Webb are using their time this summer to make an impact internationally. Junior Joel Fluty is traveling to Tibet, China on a mission trip and Junior Kaitlyn Byer is doing an internship in Honduras.
Fluty and his friend Bryce Ball worked with the International Mission Board to find a location where they could go and share the gospel with people in Tibet. The trip will start on June 2 after a flight to a remote airport; the two will be dropped off after a six-day bus ride. There will be a 15 mile trek hike that will be at an elevation of eleven thousand to sixteen thousand feet at the base of the Himalayas.
The board is providing several ministry tools to bridge the language barrier. "They have radios that are tuned to a Christian station in their language, and we will be taking the radios and giving them to each group of people we see, they are nomadic herders," said Fluty. "We also have a hand crank generator to show Jesus films on."
Fluty found out about the type of mission work that he will be involved with through his dad. Fluty's father had previously gone on a Baptist pastors' prayer walk in the cities of China, where he met the man who coordinates trips by the International mission board. After Fluty found out about the trips he decided he would participate because he wanted to do something extreme and physically demanding.
The mission trip will end July 4, and Fluty knows the trip will be an exciting experience. "Being able to reach a group of people who have never herd the name of Jesus is going to be a cool opportunity of spreading the gospel," said Fluty.
Byer is going to Honduras for 2.5 months to work on her internship. In Honduras Byer will do an internship for her major of health and wellness. The work will be through the World Hope organization, where Byer will work with doctors doing health programs for pregnant women and nutrition, cardiac rehab and setting up fitness programs for the elderly.
Byer will be staying with one of the female doctors she is working with on the trip as she works as translator among other things. "It's a new program," said Byer. "The United States embassy in Honduras will be monitoring me as I help by translating things from English to Spanish."
The overall goal of the internship for Byer is to apply what she has learned and use it in the health and wellness profession. "I definitely hope to learn how to work in the profession, and in a different culture," said Byer. "That's why I wanted to go international with my internship, to apply what I've learned."
Both Fluty and Byer have one thing in common and that is to use their opportunity in a different country to help minister. "Health and wellness is a good way to reach people and to use it as a ministry tool," said Byer.
Fluty and his friend Bryce Ball worked with the International Mission Board to find a location where they could go and share the gospel with people in Tibet. The trip will start on June 2 after a flight to a remote airport; the two will be dropped off after a six-day bus ride. There will be a 15 mile trek hike that will be at an elevation of eleven thousand to sixteen thousand feet at the base of the Himalayas.
The board is providing several ministry tools to bridge the language barrier. "They have radios that are tuned to a Christian station in their language, and we will be taking the radios and giving them to each group of people we see, they are nomadic herders," said Fluty. "We also have a hand crank generator to show Jesus films on."
Fluty found out about the type of mission work that he will be involved with through his dad. Fluty's father had previously gone on a Baptist pastors' prayer walk in the cities of China, where he met the man who coordinates trips by the International mission board. After Fluty found out about the trips he decided he would participate because he wanted to do something extreme and physically demanding.
The mission trip will end July 4, and Fluty knows the trip will be an exciting experience. "Being able to reach a group of people who have never herd the name of Jesus is going to be a cool opportunity of spreading the gospel," said Fluty.
Byer is going to Honduras for 2.5 months to work on her internship. In Honduras Byer will do an internship for her major of health and wellness. The work will be through the World Hope organization, where Byer will work with doctors doing health programs for pregnant women and nutrition, cardiac rehab and setting up fitness programs for the elderly.
Byer will be staying with one of the female doctors she is working with on the trip as she works as translator among other things. "It's a new program," said Byer. "The United States embassy in Honduras will be monitoring me as I help by translating things from English to Spanish."
The overall goal of the internship for Byer is to apply what she has learned and use it in the health and wellness profession. "I definitely hope to learn how to work in the profession, and in a different culture," said Byer. "That's why I wanted to go international with my internship, to apply what I've learned."
Both Fluty and Byer have one thing in common and that is to use their opportunity in a different country to help minister. "Health and wellness is a good way to reach people and to use it as a ministry tool," said Byer.