Global Service Opportunities with the SBU CGC
Each year, the Center for Global Connections (CGC) organizes and equips dozens of projects in locations across the globe. Use the map below to learn more about CGC opportunities or to donate to a project team.
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Current & Upcoming CGC Projects
Local Projects
Baptist Hill
This ministry team will serve two weeks at Baptist Hill Assembly in Mt. Vernon, MO to assist in preparing the retreat center for future summer camps, as well as serve one week as assistants and counselors in summer camp. Polk County Christian School (PCCS) will be joining our team during week one. Service may include cleaning, landscaping, painting, and power washing the facility, as well as assisting camp leadership in a children's/youth camp. Enjoy this beautiful location and give back to a conference center that has served as a ministry location for churches for many years, equipping others to serve and providing a place of retreat for many.
Dates: May 11-15 & June 1- 5, 2026 | Cost: Est. $170 + Course Fee $50 | Leaders: Dr. Colleen and Henry Shuler
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CGC Support Team
This team provides support for other CGC mission teams as well as mission projects on campus and throughout Bolivar. They assist mission teams through planning and coordinating events for prayer, encouragement, communication, and fundraising. They will partner with various agencies in Bolivar to gain greater awareness and serve alongside community outreach programs, non-profit groups, and church ministries. This will include sharing the gospel as they help meet the needs of the most vulnerable in our community.
Dates: Fall 2025 – Spring 2026 | Cost: FREE | Leader: Marketa Garrison
U.S. Projects
Alaska
The Alaska team will serve in Anchorage, Alaska. During the day, they will serve at partner churches, assisting with vacation Bible school and various service projects. During the evenings, they will do outreach and develop relationships with students on the University of Alaska Anchorage's campus.
Dates: June 13-20, 2026 | Cost: $2100 + $100 Course Fee | Leaders: Allie Weaver and Tyler Johnson
Cycling Katy Trail
Serve God and each other through an opportunity to cross the US on an adventure of a lifetime. This cross-country bicycle adventure will raise money and lend hands to help families around the world have homes through The Fuller Center for Housing, a Christian 501(c)(3) non-profit that partners with the poor to build and repair homes. This mission project is not a race, but an invitation to break from the routine of daily life and follow Jesus's call to love and serve our neighbors. This partnership between SBU and The Fuller Center will allow participates to serve God and others while biking across the US, receiving support in preparation for the event, and navigating the US in a way most will never experience.
Dates: May 8-17, 2026 | Cost: $900 + Course Fee $50 | Leader: Dr. Tim DeClue
Disaster Relief
This team will work with Missouri Baptist Convention Disaster Relief, First Baptist Church Bolivar, and local partners in Burnsville, North Carolina. They will help to provide housing to people whose homes were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Helene. There are many opportunities to share the Gospel and provide encouragement among people that have suffered loss.
Dates: March 14-21, 2026 | Cost: Est. $250 + Course Fee $50 | Leader: TBD
Give to the Disaster Relief Project
New York City
With a population of more than 8.6 million, New York City is a thriving, dynamic place. But within this mass of people living in the city, there are nearly 79,000 who are homeless, while others are enduring a poverty rate of more than 43%. SBU will partner with NAMB SEND Relief and will serve Graffiti 2 Community Ministries which seeks to Revitalize, Revive, and Revolutionized the Mott Haven neighborhood of the South Bronx by enabling individuals to develop physically and mentally (revitalization); emotionally, socially, and spiritually (revival); and become servant-leaders within their families, community, and beyond (revolution). Projects will include various forms of community engagement and evangelism in the Mott Haven community. Many of these projects will involve working with kids to help encourage them and grow their confidence through after-school tutoring and mentoring, helping with homework, playing games and activities, as well as Bible study.
Dates: May 10-16, 2025 | Cost: $1,650 + $100 Course Fee | Leader: Elizabeth Neasby
International Projects
Guatemala
The CGC holds a long-standing partnership with Casa Bernabe in Guatemala City. This is a home to more than 100 children on a beautiful 13-acre campus. All the children come from difficult living situations. Some of the staff members are former recipients of the care of this home and now serve the ministry by teaching, caring, and working at the orphanage. At Case Bernabe, each child belongs to a loving, nurturing family made up of house parents and their own children. Together, they live in individual houses with 10-12 children of the same age group. As a family, they eat, pray, play, and work together. Join this team and assist the orphanage ministry through a variety of projects. Work on service/humanitarian projects in the morning and in the afternoon share God's love with the children of all ages after school.
Dates: March 14-21, 2026 | Cost: Est. $2,110 + Course Fee $250 | Leaders: Duke Jones
Israel
Where ancient faith meets modern wonder! In this action-packed, ten-day adventure, you will walk where Jesus walked, pray where Jesus prayed, and see where Jesus taught and performed miracles! You will take a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee and take a swim in the Dead Sea!
You will also experience the culture and history of modern-day Israel. You will be invited to have Shabbat dinner (Sabbath celebration) in the house of a local Jewish family. You will hear lectures on the current geo-political situation from some of the leading experts in their fields. You will interact with and serve those who have been affected by the events of October 7, 2023.
This trip is designed to challenge you to evaluate your spiritual walk with Christ, your calling in life, and your potential to take on leadership positions. As a student, you’re on the edge of your future, expected to make a decision about the rest of your life. But you haven’t had the chance to really experience the world yet. On your trip to Israel, you will experience the world in a new and awesome way, and you will be accompanied by professors and chaplains who have a heart for talking with you, praying with you, and offering guidance and insight on your trip, and on your future!
Dates: Middle to late May, 2026 | Cost: Est. $2,500- $2,800 + Course Fee $50 | Leaders: Dr. Dave Quackenbos
Kenya
This summer 2026 mission will assist the non-profit organization, Generation Next, which is primarily focused upon the growth and care of students at Generation Next Academy. Generation Next is also very passionate about the wellbeing of the Kenyan people they meet in the village of Kibwezi. This organization supplies ministry and service to the community by providing hygiene kits for women that would have no access to necessary hygiene items any other way. The team’s ministry can include care for students at the academy, putting together kits for health/hygiene, and care for new mothers and children in the community.
Dates: May 16-30, 2026 | Cost: Est. $3,675 + Course Fee $250 | Leaders: Jacob Banks and Luke Stackton
Paris
Description: The Paris Mission Team will serve in Paris, France during Summer Break, 2026. They will be working with International Mission Board missionaries and journeyman to develop connections and share the gospel. They will be seeking out persons of peace and will be trained to invite new connections to "sit-to-share" meetings where they will get together with a new friend and learn to bridge the conversation to the gospel. There will also be directly bold "on the street" gospel sharing to build new connections. They will then focus on bringing those new connections into experience new community with the intention of forming discovery Bible studies. They will broadly be contributing to the work of new church plants in targeted areas.
Dates: June 15-22, 2026 | Cost: Est. $3,500 + Course Fee $250 | Leaders: Jacob and Katelyn Middleton