University of Mobile Students
to Serve New Orleans

Approximately 144 University of Mobile students will travel to New Orleans, La., on Nov. 2 to serve the city during UM’s Urban Plunge, a student-led mission experience sponsored by UM Campus Ministries.

Urban Plunge allows students to become aware of the spiritual and physical needs around them, provides participants with an opportunity to serve others, and to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ.

During the 48-hour mission trip, 12 teams, each with a male and female student leader, will complete one or more service projects including gutting houses, organizing clothes closets, cleaning churches and houses, assisting ministries in evangelism through a backyard Bible Club, working with a youth group, and prayer walking.

UM junior and Urban Plunge co-coordinator Jaye Herrod said the goal of the trip is for the students to leave changed and to impact and change the lives of the people they come in contact with in New Orleans.

The University of Mobile is a private university affiliated with the Alabama Baptist State Convention. Nearly 1,600 students are enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs in the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business, School of Christian Studies, School of Education, School of Nursing, Center for Performing Arts and Center for Adult Programs.

For more information about Urban Plunge, contact UM Director of Campus Ministries Neal Ledbetter at 251-442-2429 or nealL@mail.umobile.edu.

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