Service Opportunities

Click on "Service Opportunities" link below to see how you can spend yourself on behalf of others.

At the heart of MidAmerica Nazarene University is a passion to serve and to be servent leaders. We encourage our students to get involved and as you can see with our "Passion to Serve Projects" are all student led and come from a passion to do something bigger than themselves. If you click on our service opportunities page you can see all the ways our students or you as a student can get involved today!

CONTACT US:

Questions about Mission Trips? Need to sign up for a local service opportunity? Just wanna chat?
Come and visit any time! We are located in the Campus Center, directly across from the mailboxes.
Office hours are 8am-2pm Monday-Friday.

Raelyn Koop 913.971.3542. {ml0}
Amanda Stolba 913.971.3541. {ml1}

 

Passion to Serve Projects

Urban Youth Ministries Project

2011-2012 Project

Three hundred students, ages 0 – 18, live in the apartment complex. Each week students are turned away and added to a waiting list because there is not sufficient room for them in program. The youth center could more positively and effectively serve the youth of Rosedale Ridge if we had updated and expanded spaces. MNU students have a passion to serve and have comitted to raising $40,000 and have been volunteering at the Urban Youth Center...

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Kenya Orphan Care Project

2010-2011 Project > Raised $35,000

MNU is partnering with Nazarene district superintendent, Peter Okinyo, to reach Kiberia, the largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Our connection with Rev. Okinyo occurred when an MNU ministry student spent a summer in that region and witnessed the overwhelming need to assist vulnerable children. Many of these children survive day-to-day in Kiberia living in precarious situations without basic necessities and protection...

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The Guatemala Project

2009-2010 Project > Surpasses $50,000 goal in less than a year

MNU’s “What If” campaign was based on the premise that “if” the 1,000 faculty, staff, and students each donated $25 per semester, giving only $2 a week, than at the end of the current school year the amount raised would total more than $50,000. The clinic is in the process of being built by professional workers and volunteers from the community of Patanatic...

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