Missions Week at Lee University will take place Tuesday, Oct. 25 through Thursday, Nov. 3 and will feature several special services and events. 

This year’s theme is “Living on Mission,” which aims to empower, encourage, and activate students to “live on mission” now instead of later.  

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. 

“For the last 30 years we were doing really good work supporting individual projects which was awesome, but I feel the best way for students to learn about missions is to actually do missions,” said Lee Campus Pastor Dr. Rob Fultz.   

Far Flung Tin Can, an international missionary collective, will begin the series of special chapel services on Tuesday, Oct. 25. Dr. David Ramirez, Third Assistant General Overseer for the Church of God and member of Lee’s Board of Directors will speak on Thursday, Oct. 27, and Fultz will share the message on Tuesday, Nov. 1. Missions Week will conclude with an alumni missions chapel service on Thursday, Nov. 3, featuring co-founder of Retouch Ministries in Kenya, Chris Hadsell, and founder of the nonprofit House of Cherith in Atlanta, Georgia, Kelsi Deel Franco.  

Chapel services begin at 10:45 a.m. and are open to the public. A special offering will be taken for missions in each chapel service. 

From Oct. 25-27, the Church of God World Missions Department and several mission organizations will have exhibits set up in the Paul Conn Student Union and will share in classrooms across campus to meet with students and allow them the opportunity to learn more about missions. 

T-shirts to support Missions Week will be available for purchase Oct. 28-29 at The Exiles Experience, a worship and commissioning service focusing on training students to live on mission. This two-day conference is open to everyone and will take place in Pangle Hall on Lee’s campus. 

All money raised from individual donations and offerings in chapel during Missions Week will go directly toward the Campus Ministries Mission Grant, available to students of all majors to help fund either local or global missions. Applications for this scholarship can be found in the Campus Ministries Office.  

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. 

 For more information about The Exiles Experience conference, Missions Week, or to make a donation, visit leeuniversity.edu/missions-week or contact Campus Ministries at (423) 614-8420.