Lauren Awe, Short-term Volunteer with LCMS International Mission serving in Community Health Education in Burundi, along with Anne Gonzalez, Manager of Short-term Mission Training & Engagement for the LCMS Office of International Mission, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about how she became interested in serving as a short-term volunteer, the community in which she served in Burundi, and why this training makes a difference for the people she serves. Opportunities to serve on Short-Term mission trips, including Community Health Education and Mercy Medical Teams, are available at lcms.org/mercyteams and servenow.lcms.org.
Image: Molly Christensen, career missionary to Togo, carries a baby suffering from a very high fever on the fifth day of the LCMS Mercy Medical Team on Friday, May 11, 2018, in the Yardu village outside Koidu, Sierra Leone, West Africa. LCMS Communications/Erik M. Lunsford
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