Sydney, Australia. Auckland, New Zealand. The Outback. Are you ready? Because if you are, you will fall in love with Australia’s culture and people. Travel to New Zealand on a field trip. See natural beauty beyond description. Experience a world most people can’t even imagine. Early Applications for spring 2009 are due by May 1, 2008 and Regular Applications are due October 1, 2008. 

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OUR MISSION 

• To prepare students to live the Christian life in a religiously and culturally pluralistic world.
• To consider the meaning of being salt and light in the culture-shaping arena of the professional performing artist. 
• To encourage students to think through their role as kingdom builders in this world.
• To challenge students to grapple with issues of justice for marginalized people.

OUR OBJECTIVES

• To create in students an awareness of and an appreciation for the variety of peoples and cultures in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Rim.
• To help students understand the historical interweaving of religion, culture, the arts, politics and economics in this region of the world.
• To educate students concerning the contemporary political, economic, religious, social and cultural structure of this country.
• To provide students with an opportunity for experiential learning through social interaction and service projects with the diverse population of Sydney.
• To give students a vision for future involvement in Australia, New Zealand and the countries of the Pacific Rim.

Are you up for an adventure? Want to make friends who speak your language but see the world differently? Engage the immigrant population and urban poor of Sydney? Encounter a people whose ties to the land are older and deeper than western civilization? Are you ready to view the world from a minority perspective the majority rarely considers?

Apply now!