Learn & Serve’s “48: A Slum Experience” Retreat Coming Soon – Sign up Now!

Although forty-eight hours may not be enough time to travel to a developing country and back, it is enough time to get a glimpse into the everyday life of over one billion people on our planet. This coming January, Learn & Serve is offering our fourth annual “48: A Slum Experience”.  For forty-eight hours, participants will have a chance to immerse themselves in a simulated urban slum and learn the struggles of people living in these environments. Students interact with common challenges associated with living in a slum, such as dirty water, prostitution, HIV/AIDS, mass evictions, hunger, unemployment, corruption and the social havoc that each of those struggles can create within a community.

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STM Update: Articles from Auburn EWB Team

Auburn University’s Engineers Without Borders team traveled to Quesimpuco, Bolivia, with SIFAT in August as part of a five-year commitment to serve the people of this region. The most recent issue of Auburn Engineering, a magazine produced by the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, features a cover photo of some of the students with Benjo Paredes and an eight-page spread with photography by Jeff Etheridge and an article written by Jim Killian.

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Raise money for SIFAT while shopping online!

Are you finding lots of great Cyber Monday deals today? Before you purchase online, STOP! Did you know that you can raise money for SIFAT by using GoodShop? More than 2,500 retailers donate a percentage of each online purchase to the charity of your choice.Learn more below, then get to shopping for great deals online while you raise money for SIFAT!

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Alumni Update: Dea Lieu of the Ivory Coast passes away

This is one of our favorite pictures of Dea Lieu (left) from his time at SIFAT.

We are very sad to bring you news of the death of one of our beloved partners in ministry, SIFAT graduate Dea Lieu. He died in the hospital on the morning of November 20 of an infection in his lungs. We do not have details at this time, but we do ask for your prayers for his wife Charlotte, and their children, Desire’-Michel, Louis, Fabien, Vistorian and Armande and for his co-workers in mission in their war ravaged country, Cote D’Ivoire, or the Ivory Coast in English.

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Learn & Serve: New Retreat Programs Now Offered!

Learn & Serve is excited to announce two new programming options for retreats! To continue to provide a diverse range of experiences connecting our participants to our brothers and sisters around the world, Learn & Serve has begun offering participants the opportunity to participate in a Refugee Camp Overnight and an Urban Slum Prayer Experience.
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