ASUBCM

BCM has a rich history of sending students as summer missionaries, and countless ministers, pastors, and missionaries today got their first taste of ministry through BCM summer missions.  ASU BCM works with BCMs across the state of NC to send students as missionaries for approximately 10 weeks during the summer.  Students serve in both domestic and international positions and receive a stipend for their work.  It’s a great opportunity to see what it’s like to live as a career missionary for a few weeks.  Students fill out an online application by December 31 and then go for an interview weekend at the Caraway Conference Center.  After students find out where they have been placed, they go to orientation & training in May.  For more information click here and look under the “Summer Missions” tab.

We also help place students in the Parachute Project and other positions through the North American Mission Board (NAMB).  There are a plethora of positions through NAMB, but we really like the Parachute Project because it is so similar to what we do on campus as a missions strategy.  The Parachute Project “drops” teams of students into a largely unreached area to work at building relationships, finding “persons of peace,” learning the cultural barriers and how to overcome them, and laying the groundwork for a potential church plant to begin in the area.  Students apply through NAMB and receive a stipend for their work.  There is no interview process, and the orientation is usually done on the mission site upon arrival, but the application process is a little more vigorous than the BCM application process.

Our third missionary placement group is the International Mission Board (IMB).  We help students discern where and how God is leading them to serve internationally for the summer and help them get placed through the Hands On program of the IMB.  Students determine how long their service will be, where they will go, and what they will be doing while there.  It is a kind of “design-your-own” mission trip done through the largest, most successful and stable missions agency in the world.  Students receive no stipend for this experience, and they have to raise their own support.  But the costs are very, very low, only covering a small portion of the actual trip.  You can check it out and even begin the application process here.