Stories

New 2019 Mission Sites

New 2019 Mission Sites

We value our longstanding host partners and are always willing to form new relationships with healthy ministries. Check out this interactive map to learn more about our new partners!

ACU Alumni in Cambodia

ACU Alumni in Cambodia 

ACU alumni Emily Moreno ('18) and Amanda Daly are serving through the Global Apprenticeship Program in two different asian ministries. Read more

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Saginaw Service Weekend 2019 

Halbert Center staff took a group of ACU students to serve in a cross-cultural context with brothers and sisters in the Thai/Lao church. Read more

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Business & Mission - Summit 2018 

ACU summit took place in September with the theme "Wholeness in a Broken World," and featured several tracks, or Pathways. The Halbert Center partnered with The Lytle Center for Faith and Leadership to present a Pathway on Business Wholeness. The Pathway included five speakers that challenged attendees to consider the role of business in the life of a disciple. Read more

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Engineering and Missions

ACU students and faculty in the Engineering department connected class projects with real-world missions opportunities with Living Hope in Honduras. Read More

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GAP: Amanda Daly in Cambodia 

Amanda, graduate from the ACU MS Psychology program, is in her 13th month with an anti-trafficking organization in Cambodia. Through the Global Apprenticeship Program (GAP), she was able to discern where to serve and how to prepare. Read More

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New Director: A Changing of the Guard

In 2010, Chris Flanders took over the directorship of the then Halbert Institute. With the help of his capable staff, Chris has highlighted missions in the life of the university. Read More

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Reagan Family in Thailand

If you have spent much time in the Campus Center or hung around any Halbert Center people in the last 10 years, you probably know something about the Reagan family missions story. Read more

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Business and Mission

This year at Summit, ACU’s Halbert Center for Missions and Global Service partnered with the College of Business Administration to sponsor an inaugural all-day track on Business and Mission. Twelve speakers presented throughout the day, coming from places as far away as China, Sweden and Kenya, and as close as Lubbock and Oklahoma. The presenters ranged from nonprofit founders and small for-profit business entrepreneurs to executives and founders of large for-profit businesses with a missional purpose. Read more

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Thompson Family in Peru

High school sweethearts, Justin and Alison Thompson, took an interesting path to Lima, Peru, where they have been serving as missionaries for almost ten years. Their team of Aggies and Wildcats was formed and prepared by the Halbert Center for Missions and Global Service before spending several months of intensive language preparation in Costa Rica, and moving to Lima in 2009. Read more