Matching gift to reveal hope
Matching gift to reveal hope
Unto a Cru Ministry

Campus Connections

Serving together to reach your campus and the toughest places

Today college students value serving the world around them. They seek hands-on, relevant opportunities to impact the lives of others. Our involvement with Cru® campus ministry and international field staff members positions Unto® to help you build your campus movement and reach more students.

We accomplish this through the provision of international and on-campus opportunities focused on helping students express the kindness of Jesus in the toughest places on earth by relieving suffering, restoring dignity, and revealing hope.

How will your campus connect with Unto?

Your campus can get involved with Unto when students are on campus throughout the academic year or off campus over summer or spring break. The Unto campus team offers opportunities that are specifically designed with students in mind by applying their studies on an international humanitarian trip or serving at an on-campus outreach event.

Summer Missions

Students can use their majors on mission during a hands-on, humanitarian experience.

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On-Campus Events

Unto events can help you reach more students by providing opportunities to serve.

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Spring Break

Students can participate in short-term national and international humanitarian trips.

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Summer Mission

Unto Summer Missions help you reach your campus by providing students with a hands-on, humanitarian experience. Each Summer Missions opportunity is designed so that students can apply their studies in areas like agriculture, natural sciences, nursing, public health, and more in a humanitarian context. Students will work alongside Unto and international Cru ministries as they use their majors on mission to express the kindness of Jesus in the toughest places.

May 29-June 14th, 2026

Southeast Asia

Summer Mission Southeast Asia (Students Only)

Team Leader: Wes

Cost: 4500

In this Southeast Asian country, 21 million people live with untreated vision impairment. Without glasses, people are unable to see family clearly, or they struggle to work or read.
You can help by joining an Unto trip to this country in Southeast Asia to host vision clinics that will provide glasses to hundreds of people needing simple vision correction. You will work alongside Unto partners who are building relationships and serving those in need.
During the vision clinic, you will meet with locals one-on-one to assess their vision and provide glasses. As you spend time with them, you will have the opportunity to share and show them the kindness of Jesus.
As well as providing eyeglasses we will provide a village with clean water through water filter distribution.

This mission is a hands-on opportunity to put your faith into action.You don’t need any prior experience—we’ll provide all the training you need to be fully prepared. Ready to make a lasting impact? We hope you’ll join us.

This trip is exclusive to college students. Contact wes.wright@unto.com for more information.

Register

May 26-June 18,2026

Colombia

Colombia Summer Mission: Women’s Health

Team Leader: Lori Dawe

Cost: 4800

https://www.cru.org/communities/campus-missions-summer/trips/1495

Women around the world face many physical, social, and spiritual challenges. In some cases, women are told little about their health, even to the point of becoming pregnant and giving birth without doctors sharing what is happening to their bodies. Some women are uneducated; perhaps because their families won’t allow it, or lack of feminine hygiene products meant they missed a week of school every month and eventually had to drop out. And some women are silenced, oppressed; prevented from sharing their thoughts and coerced into believing someone else’s. Even with all of this going against them, we still believe that women are the key to a healthier society, as the ones who often raise a family and nurture a community. We seek to follow Jesus’ examples throughout Scripture, as He sees women and treats them with the dignity ascribed to them as ones created in the image of God.

You can help bring physical and spiritual healing to marginalized women by joining the Unto Women’s Health Summer Mission trip. In partnership with national Cru staff and their partners, you will teach health education workshops that provide life saving information, while building relationships that lead to Gospel conversations. When you participate in this trip, you help to share the kindness of Jesus in incredibly tough places by relieving suffering, restoring dignity, and revealing hope.

The Unto Women’s Health Summer Mission trip is open to female nursing students who have completed approximately two semesters with clinical rotation of nursing school. Female students of other majors may be considered providing they have a medical/science background with some clinical knowledge and experience. We seek ten participants who demonstrate interest in maternal and child health, women’s rights, and women’s ministry. If you are interested but are unsure if you qualify, please reach out, and we would love to chat with you!

To apply, please complete and submit the summer missions application. Two references are required: one from a spiritual leader in your life (unrelated to you) and one from a nursing professor/clinical supervisor.

For more information contact kelly.white@unto.com

* Exact dates, cost, and location are still to be determined. Dates, cost, and location listed are just placeholders and still TBD.

*The small and specialized nature of our summer mission means that it fills up quickly. If you are interested, we recommend that you complete your application and references as soon as you can.

Register

June 16-July 9, 2026

Malawi

Malawi Summer Mission: Agriculture

Team Leader: Oscar Avalos

Cost: $4,800

https://www.cru.org/communities/campus-missions-summer/trips/1974/

Are you passionate about the Great Commission (Matt 28:19-20) as well as natural sciences, community development and sustainability?

Within the Humanitarian aid world, the concern is are we creating sustainable communities or dependency problems.

Unto is the humanitarian ministry of Cru, an international ministry that creates movements everywhere, so that everyone knows someone who truly follows Jesus. Unto serves in the toughest places on earth to relieve suffering, restore dignity, and reveal the hope of Jesus. One of the ways we do this is through agriculture workshops.

We serve farmers from all scales and backgrounds to come alongside them by relieving food insecurity, empowering people through agricultural education, and revealing hope. Our workshops include components such as raised garden beds, composting, nutrition, drip irrigation kits, and pest management. We also adopt our workshops considering what the specific community needs help with.

You can help relieve the suffering of people of Malawi who struggle to make a living as subsistence farmers. The biggest challenges for farmers in Malawi are degraded lands, harsh drought, and poor practices. By joining the Agriculture Summer Mission with Unto ®, you have the opportunity to teach communities about how they can grow year-round, and farm more sustainably. You will see firsthand the practical and spiritual impact your agriculture, soil science, or natural science passion/education can have on a community.

In addition to participating workshops, you will explore ways to integrate ministry into your career as you spend time with local Cru ® staff members sharing the hope of Jesus with people in the heart of Malawi. We will run four-day trainings in villages, teaching families techniques to grow more while restoring soil for future generations.

The applications are open. To apply, please complete and submit the summer missions application.

The listed trip cost is an estimate, and includes international airfare.

Contact oscar.avalos@unto.com for more information.

* Location, exact dates, and cost are still to be determined. Dates and cost listed are just a place holder and still TBD.

Register
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On Campus Outreach Events

Unto’s on-campus outreach events help your campus organization reach more students by providing opportunities to express the kindness of Jesus in their own campus community and around the world. On-campus events are designed to help you build your movement by engaging students, staff, and faculty on your campus. Your campus can host an event such as a:

Students will learn how to restore dignity and reveal hope to the refugee neighbor in their community.

Students will help restore the dignity of women in the toughest places on earth by making LuoPads that are provided to women during women’s health workshops.

Students will help students in the toughest places by collecting school supplies and hosting a packing event.

Students will participate in an interactive event where they will experience the realities of people in the toughest places who walk miles each day for water.

Students will experience the life of families in the toughest places on earth through an interactive simulation that illustrates the daily challenges of buying food, fetching water, and caring for children.

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Spring Break

Unto Spring Break trips help your campus reach more students by providing them with flexible opportunities to gain hands-on, humanitarian experience. Students can participate in short-term national and international trips that focus on one of our initiatives like disaster relief, refugee care, critical aid, and more. Students will interact with other Cru ministries as they apply their majors on mission and use their passions to express the kindness of Jesus.

March 14-21st 2026

Guatemala

Spring Break Guatemala Vision Clinic (Students Only)

Team Leader: Chelsea

Cost: $1200 + flights

During the 10th century, a complex network of trade routes turned Mayan cities into commercial and spiritual hubs. Guatemala still has that mystique today in historic cities like Antigua. However, in the capital, Guatemala City, the effects of the 36-year-long civil war (1960-1996) still can be felt, causing Guatemala to be one of the poorest countries in Central America.

Be part of an Unto® volunteer trip that helps relieve suffering by providing eyeglasses to many with impaired vision.

The team will conduct eyeglass clinics in the city, as well as in nearby rural areas. During the clinics, as you meet with individuals to provide basic vision testing and needed glasses, you will be able to demonstrate the kindness of Jesus. You also will have the opportunity to talk with students at the local university campus to share the hope of the gospel.

No experience is required. At the beginning of the trip, participants will receive training for vision testing and fitting eyeglasses.

This trip is for college students only.

Trip is Full

March 21-28th 2026

El Salvador

Spring Break El Salvador Vision Clinics (Students Only)

Team Leader: Wes

Cost: $1200 + flights

El Salvador — a land of beautiful beaches, sprawling coffee plantations, and lush rainforests — is the most densely populated country in Central America, with 40 percent of its population living in poverty. Be part of a Unto® volunteer trip that helps relieve suffering by providing eyeglasses to many with impaired vision.

As a student on this trip, you will travel to the nation’s capital, San Salvador. The team will conduct eyeglass clinics in the city as well as in nearby rural areas. In the clinics you will meet with individuals to provide glasses and demonstrate the kindness of Jesus. You also will have the opportunity to talk with students at the local university campus to share the hope of Jesus.

No experience is required. Trip participants will receive training for eyeglass fittings at the beginning of the trip.

Students only. This trip can accommodate a maximum of 15 people.

Trip is Full
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Upcoming Student Trips

Unto volunteer humanitarian teams work with partners in countries across the globe to serve those in need and express the kindness of Jesus. Students can take part in transforming lives through a dynamic, hands-on humanitarian trip designed specifically with them in mind.

March 14-21st 2026

Guatemala

Spring Break Guatemala Vision Clinic (Students Only)

Team Leader: Chelsea

Cost: $1200 + flights

During the 10th century, a complex network of trade routes turned Mayan cities into commercial and spiritual hubs. Guatemala still has that mystique today in historic cities like Antigua. However, in the capital, Guatemala City, the effects of the 36-year-long civil war (1960-1996) still can be felt, causing Guatemala to be one of the poorest countries in Central America.

Be part of an Unto® volunteer trip that helps relieve suffering by providing eyeglasses to many with impaired vision.

The team will conduct eyeglass clinics in the city, as well as in nearby rural areas. During the clinics, as you meet with individuals to provide basic vision testing and needed glasses, you will be able to demonstrate the kindness of Jesus. You also will have the opportunity to talk with students at the local university campus to share the hope of the gospel.

No experience is required. At the beginning of the trip, participants will receive training for vision testing and fitting eyeglasses.

This trip is for college students only.

Trip is Full

March 21-28th 2026

El Salvador

Spring Break El Salvador Vision Clinics (Students Only)

Team Leader: Wes

Cost: $1200 + flights

El Salvador — a land of beautiful beaches, sprawling coffee plantations, and lush rainforests — is the most densely populated country in Central America, with 40 percent of its population living in poverty. Be part of a Unto® volunteer trip that helps relieve suffering by providing eyeglasses to many with impaired vision.

As a student on this trip, you will travel to the nation’s capital, San Salvador. The team will conduct eyeglass clinics in the city as well as in nearby rural areas. In the clinics you will meet with individuals to provide glasses and demonstrate the kindness of Jesus. You also will have the opportunity to talk with students at the local university campus to share the hope of Jesus.

No experience is required. Trip participants will receive training for eyeglass fittings at the beginning of the trip.

Students only. This trip can accommodate a maximum of 15 people.

Trip is Full

May 29-June 14th, 2026

Southeast Asia

Summer Mission Southeast Asia (Students Only)

Team Leader: Wes

Cost: 4500

In this Southeast Asian country, 21 million people live with untreated vision impairment. Without glasses, people are unable to see family clearly, or they struggle to work or read.
You can help by joining an Unto trip to this country in Southeast Asia to host vision clinics that will provide glasses to hundreds of people needing simple vision correction. You will work alongside Unto partners who are building relationships and serving those in need.
During the vision clinic, you will meet with locals one-on-one to assess their vision and provide glasses. As you spend time with them, you will have the opportunity to share and show them the kindness of Jesus.
As well as providing eyeglasses we will provide a village with clean water through water filter distribution.

This mission is a hands-on opportunity to put your faith into action.You don’t need any prior experience—we’ll provide all the training you need to be fully prepared. Ready to make a lasting impact? We hope you’ll join us.

This trip is exclusive to college students. Contact wes.wright@unto.com for more information.

Register

May 26-June 18,2026

Colombia

Colombia Summer Mission: Women’s Health

Team Leader: Lori Dawe

Cost: 4800

https://www.cru.org/communities/campus-missions-summer/trips/1495

Women around the world face many physical, social, and spiritual challenges. In some cases, women are told little about their health, even to the point of becoming pregnant and giving birth without doctors sharing what is happening to their bodies. Some women are uneducated; perhaps because their families won’t allow it, or lack of feminine hygiene products meant they missed a week of school every month and eventually had to drop out. And some women are silenced, oppressed; prevented from sharing their thoughts and coerced into believing someone else’s. Even with all of this going against them, we still believe that women are the key to a healthier society, as the ones who often raise a family and nurture a community. We seek to follow Jesus’ examples throughout Scripture, as He sees women and treats them with the dignity ascribed to them as ones created in the image of God.

You can help bring physical and spiritual healing to marginalized women by joining the Unto Women’s Health Summer Mission trip. In partnership with national Cru staff and their partners, you will teach health education workshops that provide life saving information, while building relationships that lead to Gospel conversations. When you participate in this trip, you help to share the kindness of Jesus in incredibly tough places by relieving suffering, restoring dignity, and revealing hope.

The Unto Women’s Health Summer Mission trip is open to female nursing students who have completed approximately two semesters with clinical rotation of nursing school. Female students of other majors may be considered providing they have a medical/science background with some clinical knowledge and experience. We seek ten participants who demonstrate interest in maternal and child health, women’s rights, and women’s ministry. If you are interested but are unsure if you qualify, please reach out, and we would love to chat with you!

To apply, please complete and submit the summer missions application. Two references are required: one from a spiritual leader in your life (unrelated to you) and one from a nursing professor/clinical supervisor.

For more information contact kelly.white@unto.com

* Exact dates, cost, and location are still to be determined. Dates, cost, and location listed are just placeholders and still TBD.

*The small and specialized nature of our summer mission means that it fills up quickly. If you are interested, we recommend that you complete your application and references as soon as you can.

Register

June 16-July 9, 2026

Malawi

Malawi Summer Mission: Agriculture

Team Leader: Oscar Avalos

Cost: $4,800

https://www.cru.org/communities/campus-missions-summer/trips/1974/

Are you passionate about the Great Commission (Matt 28:19-20) as well as natural sciences, community development and sustainability?

Within the Humanitarian aid world, the concern is are we creating sustainable communities or dependency problems.

Unto is the humanitarian ministry of Cru, an international ministry that creates movements everywhere, so that everyone knows someone who truly follows Jesus. Unto serves in the toughest places on earth to relieve suffering, restore dignity, and reveal the hope of Jesus. One of the ways we do this is through agriculture workshops.

We serve farmers from all scales and backgrounds to come alongside them by relieving food insecurity, empowering people through agricultural education, and revealing hope. Our workshops include components such as raised garden beds, composting, nutrition, drip irrigation kits, and pest management. We also adopt our workshops considering what the specific community needs help with.

You can help relieve the suffering of people of Malawi who struggle to make a living as subsistence farmers. The biggest challenges for farmers in Malawi are degraded lands, harsh drought, and poor practices. By joining the Agriculture Summer Mission with Unto ®, you have the opportunity to teach communities about how they can grow year-round, and farm more sustainably. You will see firsthand the practical and spiritual impact your agriculture, soil science, or natural science passion/education can have on a community.

In addition to participating workshops, you will explore ways to integrate ministry into your career as you spend time with local Cru ® staff members sharing the hope of Jesus with people in the heart of Malawi. We will run four-day trainings in villages, teaching families techniques to grow more while restoring soil for future generations.

The applications are open. To apply, please complete and submit the summer missions application.

The listed trip cost is an estimate, and includes international airfare.

Contact oscar.avalos@unto.com for more information.

* Location, exact dates, and cost are still to be determined. Dates and cost listed are just a place holder and still TBD.

Register

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