Missions Week at Lee University will take place Oct. 4-8, featuring several special services and events. This year’s theme, “Light It Up,” is based on Ephesians 5:14.

Since 2019, Missions Week has moved from a student support model to a student activation model. The focus has changed from supporting a particular project to helping with financial support for students to live on mission.

“Missions Week is so new to so many students because w e have not been able to have it for two years,” said Rob Fultz, Lee’s campus pastor. “The goal of Missions Week is to activate our student body to live on mission, both here and abroad. To help with that, we sell shirts, and 100% of the money raised goes into a missions fund to help student go on missions trips.”

Missions Week will include special chapel services that will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 5, and Thursday, Oct. 7, at 10:45 a.m. Brad Jones, pastor of Passion City Church in Atlanta and executive director of the Passion conferences, will speak in chapel on Oct. 7.

A special offering will be taken for missions in each chapel service.

Missions Week will also feature an event of baptism on Oct. 8 in Pangle Hall at 7 p.m. According to Fultz, the event’s purpose is to encourage students to live on mission where they are and wherever God leads them beyond Lee. Additionally, there will be opportunities to hear from and meet other missions organizations on campus.

“The Oct. 8 event is one of the most enriching and powerful experiences I have had at Lee,” said Fultz. “It is amazing to watch students baptize their peers and inspire each other to live on mission.”

Missions Week has been carried out in honor of Lee University student Dee Lavender, who died on a summer mission trip to Panama just before her 21st birthday. Missions Week projects have been in place for more than 20 years, and a week devoted to missions has been part of Lee programming since the 1940s.

All money raised from T-shirt sales, individual donations, and offerings in chapel during Missions Week will go directly to putting students on the mission field through a Lee University missions scholarship fund for students by students.

Missions Week T-shirts are available in Lee’s Campus Ministries office for a $15 donation to the project.

Chapel services begin at 10:45 a.m. and are open to the public.

For more information or to make a donation, visit leeuniversity.edu/missions-week or contact Campus Ministries at (423) 614-8420.