By Katherine Siglin
Last weekend, Milligan students took part in a medical missions trip sponsored by the campus group Society for Scientific Christian Scholars.
Students volunteered at FAME, a nonprofit organization that organizes short-term missions trips, as well as sorting, organizing and shipping donated medical equipment out to various parts of the world.
Milligan students helped in the inventory process by assessing donations and checking expiration dates on medications.
FAME relies completely on volunteers to complete their mission. The nonprofit only employs six people and allows churches, youth groups and colleges to come help out.
One of the employees, Bruce Jeffery, talked to the student volunteers.
“He was telling us ‘everything that you’re touching, the next time it would be opened, it will be opened by the person that really needs it,’” said Chelsea Brunsman, the president of the Society. “That was just a really cool thought.”
Sophomore Kerri Beth Slaughter, secretary of the Society said that she enjoyed seeing what goes on in the background before short-term missions can even take place.
“A lot of people are like ‘You need to go to Mexico, you need to go somewhere in order to do missions work,’” said Slaughter, “but somebody has to stay here.”
The Society of Scientific Christian Scholars was started by a group of Milligan students in the fall of 2012 under the guidance of Dr. Dianne Junker, professor of chemistry. The group exists in order to promote the synthesis of faith and science.
Junior Sterling Herron said that the group shows “that you can do Christian service through science related things,” and is a way for science majors on campus to express their faith.
An upcoming event for the group will be April 26, where the group will be sponsoring a table at the Grey Fossil Site for a Girl Scout Earth Day event. If you are interested in joining the group, or would like more information about it, join the Facebook page or email Chelsea Brunsman at cjbrunsman@my.milligan.edu.
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