Baptist students gain a taste of global poverty

Spartan living accommodations—a 10-foot by 10-foot room without electricity or running water with only a little heat from a wood-burning stove—didn’t deter the student workers.

Seven college students from Baptist Student Ministries around Texas rose early each morning to work hard in community gardens and learn about global hunger issues as they spent a week at the World Hunger Farm, near Waco.

The group was one of several Go Now Missions student teams who served in Texas, Nicaragua, the Middle East, East Asia, Eastern Europe and North Africa during Christ-mas break to share the love of Jesus and to expand their worldviews.

The World Hunger Farm trip was designed for students to experience what it is like to live in poverty conditions, while learning the responsibility Christians have to help the poor and hungry.

Read the entire article at the Baptist Standard.

Watch a video made by the Baptist General Convention of Texas.