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Student Led Ministries Emmaus Road

The Emmaus Road Core Team seeks to create an honoring space for holistic global and cultural engagement through the pursuit of intentional community, deeper understanding, prayer, intercession, and reconciliation with God.

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Emmaus Road Information

Core Leadership Team

2020-2021 Emmaus Road Core Team
ER Director Tiffany Gong
ER Programming Coordinator Esther Cabrera
ER Business Manager Kathryn Spradley
ER Publicity Manager Moriah Chiang
ER Travel Coordinator Brooke Powell
Staff Director Jennie Fuentes
 

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Email us to set up an appointment. We look forward to meeting with you. 

ER office is located on the 2nd floor of the Kerr Student Center (KSC)

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Student Leadership Team
Phone: 805-565-6806 (office)
Email: emmaus_road@westmont.edu

Staff Director:
Jennifer Fuentes 
Assistant Director of Campus Life Office for Ministry and Outreach
Email: jfuentes@westmont.edu

Descriptions of Experiences

Summer 2022 Experiences

Summer 2022

* NOTE: Due to Covid, we will only be sending teams to Spain, Uganda Peru & Montenegro. 

Please be aware of the summer dates for each experience when applying. Dates depend on a number of variables - in-country partner needs, team member summer commitments, etc. Before applying we ask you to consider any summer conflicts or time frame preferences you would to give thought to. 
 

Click on each tab to read about our four experiences & travel dates!

Altea-Alicante, Spain

In Altea-Alicante, you and your team will be immersed in a post-Christian, historic, small town on the Spanish coast. While living in community houses located throughout the coastal village, you will engage in everyday style of discipleship with the Edge Project, a local ministry that seeks to connect to others through relationships and the use of art. You’ll have the opportunity to grow closer to Christ through intentional community and closer to others through shared meals, art workshops, and simple friendships. 

DATES: June 1 - 29, 2022 

Cross-Cultural Context: A post-Christian, historic, small beach town
Faith Development: Discipleship training in living your faith every day; growth through intentional community
Ministry: Relational - build friendships; Creativity - art workshops and missional living
Podgorica, Montenegro

Partner with CRU, by making new friends through student-to-student ministry model. As a college students you will engage and live among other college students at a university nestled between the great lakes and mountains of Montenegro. You will be making new friends, living life with college students on their turf, meanwhile looking for opportunities to explain the good news to those who are interested, and discipling those who have already embraced Christ. The team will connect with nationals through language classes, student clubs (art, history, soccer, chess, business etc), lunch and through coffee dates. Your hosts will provide with tools that will train you to have conversations that transition into spiritual and gospel conversations in a way that is relevant for the culture of Montenegro. Students who are interested in sharing their imperfect story and comfortable discipling other students are encouraged to apply.

DATES: May 16 - June 16, 2022  

Cross-Cultural Context: A post-Christian, medieval European historic University town
Faith Development: Discipleship training in living your faith every day; growth through intentional community
Ministry: Relational - build friendships; Creativity - missional living and sharing the gospel.
Lima, Peru

Partner with CRU, by making new friends through student-to-student ministry model. As a college Partner with Westmont anthropology professor, Tito Paredes, to learn about Peruvian culture through conversations and visits to cultural sites, including Machu Picchu. The team will experience both metropolitan and rural parts of Peru. Assist World Vision in Peru in a variety of capacities, often including education. The team stays at a seminary for those in South America studying cross-cultural mission. You will develop relationships with students at the seminary, hosts who live at the seminary, and the Paredes family. Spanish speaking is helpful, though not required. 

DATES: July 9-August 6 

Cultural Context: A bustling South American capital city; live at a seminary and learn about Peruvian culture through discussion and site visits
Faith Development: Experience Protestant and Catholic Christianity; seminary classes
Ministry: Community Development; supporting para-church organizations
Southeast Asia

Using a business as mission model, Sea Tribes will introduce our team to a village setting for 3 home stays lasting several nights with the intent of beginning to plant kingdom seeds in that location - via cultural exchange. We will partner with Sea Tribes to not only plant new seeds, but also to help nurture those that have already been sown. You and your team will live with a local family - eat together, go fishing together, cook together, play sports with the people of the village, etc. Your team will aid Sea Tribes in creating inroads for not only learning about the host culture and people, but also to share the Christian faith legally via a business model in a Restricted Access Nation. Your team will have a great near immersion experience while being exposed to a non-Arab Muslim contextual ministry as well as a Business as Mission strategy for reaching Unreached People Groups.

THIS EXPERIENCE WILL NOT BE HAPPENING THIS SCHOOL YEAR. 

Cross-Cultural Context: Island villages and homestays with Muslim families
Faith Development: Sharing faith with Muslims; worshipping with SE Asian Christians
Ministry: Relational - Homestays with Muslim families; work projects on each island
Lugazi, Uganda

In Lugazi, you and your team will have the opportunity to encounter the Holy Spirit in a new way as you live with local Pastor Hudson Suubi and his family. You’ll experience life in a slow-paced, East African town where Pastor Hudson leads his church - God’s House of Miracles, Faith Children’s Home, as well as a local primary school. Engage in evangelism and ministry through preaching at the church, outreach at local schools, and working with kids & youth. 

DATES: June 17- July 17, 2022

Cross-Cultural Context: A pre-industrial, multi-religious, slow-paced, East African town; live with Pastor Hudson and his family
Faith Development: Experience a charismatic form of East African Christianity
Ministry: Children - play with kids at Faith Children’s Home and help teach in classrooms; Preaching - serve Pastor Hudson’s church by preaching and teaching on Sundays and throughout the week
 
  • Summer 2022 Experiences
  • Altea-Alicante, Spain
  • Podgorica, Montenegro
  • Lima, Peru
  • Southeast Asia
  • Lugazi, Uganda

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