InterSCession
InterSCession provides an opportunity for students to encounter God’s heart for the world through service, immersive experiences, and unique hands-on education. Options are strategically planned as a natural extension of the rich curriculum already engaging learners in the classroom. As the most anticipated week of the year, students are challenged to think biblically as they connect with the world around them and discover ways to utilize their knowledge, skills, and talents to impact their world for Christ.
Each experience falls into at least one of the following categories:
- Service in nature. Students engage needy communities as the hands and feet of Jesus locally and abroad, and may minister directly to the spiritual needs of others. Service hours will be earned during these experiences.
- Experiential in nature. Students participate in immersive experiences through exposure to God’s amazing creation to see how a Christian worldview relates to all aspects of life. Service hours may account for a portion of these experiences.
- Educational in nature. Students are spurred on to greater passion and interest in bible, history, science, the arts, and more as they dive deeply into subjects from a Christian worldview. Service hours may account for a portion of these experiences.
2024 Recap
2026 Offerings
Service
- HS Travel: Costa Rica
- HS Travel: LA Dream Center
- HS Girls Travel: Waves of Change
- MS/HS: Early Ed & the Elderly
- HS: Serve at Sambica
- HS: Mercy Services
- HS: World Vision
- HS: Union Gospel Mission
- HS: Scholars in Action
HS Travel: Costa Rica
HS Travel: LA Dream Center
HS Girls Travel: Waves of Change
MS/HS: Early Ed & the Elderly
HS: Serve at Sambica
HS: Mercy Services
HS: World Vision
HS: Union Gospel Mission
HS: Scholars in Action
Experience
2027 Offerings
Service
- HS Travel: Mission Trip to Guatemala
Education
- MS Travel: WA D.C. Trip
- MS/HS Travel: Biblical Immersion in SLC
- HS Travel: Japan
- HS Travel: France & Spain
Potential strategic partnerships for programming may include: American Christian Tours, Friendship Tours, Joshua Expeditions, World Vision, Praying Pelican Missions, Students International, Maven Truth, WorldStrides, and others.
Yearly service hours requirements for graduation may be earned during InterSCession week, depending on the experience. Forty hours total are required to graduate, with a minimum of ten hours of service required per year regardless of previous service. Current high school students, please submit the Community Service Form in Canvas for credit hours.
World travel options are currently only open to high school students. Local and national travel is open to middle school students. Special programs, speakers, projects, and performances are arranged for elementary students on campus. Elementary and middle school students do not need to complete service hours at this time.
Contact Amy Goodrich, InterSCession Program Manager, with any questions.
“InterSCession gave me the opportunity to be a servant of God and make an impact on the lives of others.”
