Serve With Love
Nearly a decade ago, PUC students traveled to Fiji to help with an evangelistic campaign. In the years since, students have returned to build Mana Island SDA School, teach classes, and provide much-needed supplies and technology. But these annual trips mean even more than that. For PUC, serving those in Mana is about commitment, relationships, and love.
Highlights
Worshiping Together
Worship your own way. PUC offers a multitude of campus ministries and small group worship services, along with other options for larger gatherings, like the Twelve church service.
Serving Locally
Weekly service opportunities like Berkeley Homeless Ministries allow students the ability to give back within our local community.
Serving Globally
Each year offers PUC students, faculty, and staff multiple opportunities to travel the globe, spreading God’s word and service in places like Kenya, Brazil, and Fiji.
Praising God
Use your talents to praise God by joining one of our on-campus praise teams, or start your own.
Community Fellowship
Come together and receive God’s blessing as a campus family during PUC’s weekly Friday night vespers service.
2023 Mission Trips
Fiji Mission Trip March 24th - April 4th 2023
The Fiji Mission Trip started in 2014 when PUC was invited by Share Him to do an evangelistic campaign in Nadi, Fiji. After that trip, we were invited to come and help Mana Island SDA school. The following year we sent four student missionaries to teach at Mana Island and built the first house for SMs in Mana. Our last trip to Mana Island was in 2019, before the pandemic- this will be our first trip back since then. We have a group of nursing and biology students and a team of nurses, and Dr. Wheeler and Dr. Perry will be joining.
We also have a team of doctors and dentists from Brazil that will support us during the trip. PUC has a huge impact on Mana island, and we are excited to come back and help our community over there during spring break. We plan to take some laptop computers for establishing a computer lab at the school, and some snorkeling gear to donate to the school so the students can go snorkeling. In 2019, we delivered 10 sets of snorkeling gear to the school and will bring new snorkeling equipment to replace or add to theirs.
Kenya Mission Trip June 19th - June 28th 2023
The school provides education and care to Masai girls whose families force them into child marriages. We plan to paint school buildings and provide needed supplies. We will stay at Tumani Resort Hotel. We will also spend a day on the Safari exploring the Amboseli National Park, and seeing habitats ranging from Sulphur Springs to the Savannah, as well as buffalo, mongoose, & elephant wildlife. Academic credit for the tour is available by registering for GNST 296L Service Learning.
For more information, please contact: servicelearning@puc.edu
Previous Mission Trips
Dr. Floyd Hayes
Professor of Biology
Dr. Hayes has been on 11 international mission trips with PUC students in Kenya, Fiji and Brazil, including 4 organized by Hayes. In addition to assisting with community development, the lab portion of a tropical biology course is taught during each trip.
Southwestern Kenya
March 24 - April 4, 2022
Donation of computers and a projector to a girls’ secondary school and training of teachers; construction of new clinic building; health care in clinic; vacation Bible school.
Southwestern Kenya
August 19-31, 2021
Painting of building at girls’ secondary school; health care in clinic.
Mana Island, Fiji
July 16-27, 2019
Providing snorkeling gear to school children and taking them snorkeling.
Southwestern Kenya
March 22 - April 1, 2019
Construction of new building at a girls’ secondary school; painting a non-denominational Bible training center; health care in clinic; vacation Bible school.
Southwestern Kenya
September 2-12, 2018
Painting buildings at a clinic; health care in clinic.
Mana Island, Fiji
March 22 - April 1, 2018
Construction of new home for school teachers; health care in clinic.
Amazonas, Brazil
December 31, 2016 - January 9, 2017
Construction of new home for health care workers; English classes for children; community health fair; vacation Bible school.
Amazonas, Brazil
March 18-27, 2016
Construction of new home for health care workers; English classes for children; health care in clinic; vacation Bible school.
Amazonas, Brazil
March 20-30, 2015
Construction of new home for health care workers; painting of health clinic; delivery of water filters to communities; English classes for children; health care in clinic; vacation Bible school.
Amazonas, Brazil
March 21-30, 2014
Construction of new clinic; English classes for children; vacation Bible school.
Amazonas, Brazil
March 22-31, 2013
Painting of mission compound; community health fair
Dr. Backil Sung
Professor of Biology
Dr. Sung has been part of the medical mission trips which were developed from a single person journey to a group of 50 members with 7 physicians/surgeons, 7 dentists, and another 8 allied health professionals.
Medical Mission Trips
Indonesia
July 18-23, 2022
We are repairing cleft lip/palate patients, removing masses on the skin, prescribing and providing medicines to patients with medical symptoms, and counseling and educating health messages in collaboration with local churches there.
Dhaka, Bangladesh
July 15-19, 2019
Organized medical mission group of 5 physicians and surgeons, 4 nurses and 15 volunteers. They repaired cleft lip/palates, prescribed and counseled medical symptoms.
Medan, Indonesia
July 16-20, 2018
Organized medical mission group and repaired cleft lip/palates, prescribed and counseled medical symptoms
Battambang, Cambodia
July 13 – 24, 2017
Organized medical mission group and prescribed, counseled medical patients and removed masses on the skin and financially supported a local church to open an educational institute
Manyara, Tanzania
July 8 – 18, 2016
Organized medical mission group and prescribed, counseled medical patients and removed masses on the skin
Tumen and Yuxi, China
Aug 14 – Sep 8, 2015
Prescribed, counseled medical patients and removed masses on the skin. Lectured health message in a health center
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Aug 29 – Sep 7, 2014
Prescribed, counseled medical patients and removed masses on the skin
Cagayan de Oro, Philippines
Aug 27 – Sep 10, 2013
Prescribed, counseled medical patients and removed masses on the skin
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Aug 9 – 30, 2012
Worked with Adventist International Medical Missionaries to prescribe, counsel medical patients and remove masses on the skin