This December, I had the opportunity to travel to Honduras with a group of students from Belmont College of Pharmacy and Lipscomb University. Together, our team worked to set up free clinics for different remote villages around Tegucigalpa. During my time in Honduras, I met so many people who gave me new perspectives. Mission trips,…
My name is Rachel Vernon and I want to share about our time in Belize. While in Belize, the two of my favorite events were visiting a nursing home and church on Sunday. When we went to a nursing home, we hung out with geriatric patients. This was not a part of the original schedule…
My name is Joshua South and I want to share with you about our fourth day in Belize. This morning, we were able to spend some time with each other and see some cool sights. We went to some Mayan ruins and it was really amazing. It was mind boggling how the ancient Mayans were…
This is Haley Poynter here, the last few days have been jam packed but full of such unique little moments that I believe everyone has experienced. We have worked with children every day, playing various sports with them. They loved soccer, track, and volleyball, but most surprisingly they LOVED a game called “tails.” We tuck…
Hello and greetings from the team in Belize. This is Gerald Archer from the Baseball team and I wanted to give a quick update on the work that we have been doing here. We left Nashville bright and early, 4:00 am Wednesday morning. We first flew to Ft. Lauderdale, then to Belize City. Unlike the…
Ten student-athletes and I will be traveling to Central America on the December 2019 Belmont Athletics Mission Trip. From December 11-17, we will be in the country of Belize working through Praying Pelican Missions, an organization that connects groups to churches in need around the world. We will be serving and sharing the love of…
Today was our last day in Poland and it was most definitely the heaviest. We packed our things, got on the bus, and headed to Auschwitz, where we explored the history of the Holocaust and World War II. Honestly, I’m still pretty speechless. To think that we were standing where these innocent prisoners were forced…
It’s day six and we are all still thriving! We started the morning with a nice breakfast at the hotel. After breakfast, we embarked on what we thought was an hour long journey to Łódź, but it turned into an hour and a half drive due to some unforeseen traffic. We were sent to work…
Hello again! Today, some of the team went back to the campground to help run an event called “Shine!” The objective of Shine is to make people with disabilities feel not different, but special. Our job was to make them feel loved and wanted and beautiful. There were about 54 participants at the event and…
Early this morning, a group of our athletes left the hotel by bus for the Proem Church campus to participate in the “Shine” program helping special needs adults get dressed up and ready for prom. The rest of us went to a local high school to play another game of basketball. Luckily, we were playing…