Serve With Love
Stepping into the role of a student missionary is a life-changing opportunity to grow in faith, serve others, and experience the transformative power of God’s love in action. As a student missionary, you’ll have the chance to share the gospel, build meaningful relationships, and make a tangible impact in communities near or far. It’s a journey of deepening your faith, stepping out of your comfort zone, and allowing God to use you in incredible ways. If you have a heart for service and a desire to be a light in the world, consider answering the call—your adventure in faith awaits!
Upcoming Mission Trips
Puerto Rico
January 2026
Fiji
March 2026
Madagascar
July 2026
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT:
Dr. Backil Sung, PUC Professor of Biology
bsung@puc.edu
(707) 965-6633
Dr. Floyd Hayes
Professor of Biology
Dr. Hayes has been on 11 international mission trips with PUC students in Kenya, Fiji, and Brazil, including four organized by Hayes. In addition to assisting with community development, the lab portion of a tropical biology course is taught during each trip.
Dr. Backil Sung
Professor of Biology
Dr. Sung has been part of the medical mission trips, which developed from a single-person journey to a group of 50 members, with seven physicians/surgeons, seven dentists, and another eight allied health professionals.
Previous Mission Trips
Sri Lanka July 7-12, 2025
PUC Biology Professors Backil Sung, Aimee Wyrick, and Floyd Hayes, along with 12 of their students, served in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Also on the mission trip were volunteers from Vietnam, the Philippines, Australia, India, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, China, and Hong Kong. All 110 of them provided medical and dental services, offered counseling, reinstalled electrical power lines, addressed financial needs, and hosted Vacation Bible School
Peru
March 21-31, 205
Three professors and 13 students from Pacific Union College served in the Amazon basin of Pucallpa, Peru. With Maranatha organizing the mission trip, they brought leaders and a construction team to supervise their work on a church. In addition, five students and three teachers from Orangewood Academy traveled to Peru to further PUC’s mission.
Fiji
March 22-30, 2025
19 students alongside five nursing faculty and staff from Pacific Union College provided physicals, well visits, and regular physician office and dental care to 311 patients in Mana, Fiji.
Students checked patients' vital signs, monitored their glucose levels, and recorded medical history and complaints. With a dentist on duty, students assisted and learned how to give fluoride treatments and educated the community on oral hygiene.
India
July 10 - 21, 2024
PUC had medical professionals, including MDs, DDS, pharmacists, nurses, other allied health professionals, and students volunteering for a mission trip to Falakata, India.
Fiji
March 21 - April 2, 2024
he nursing and health science department sponsors an annual mission trip to Mana Island, Fiji. Five hundred people live on the remote island and lack any healthcare. 17 students join PUC Nursing Professor Sandy Ringer to gain public health hours and provide non-acute care to locals in Fiji. This year, they also brought along dentists to provide oral care and physical health needs.
Fiji
March 24 - April 4 2023
Under the leadership of former Missions Director Fabio Maia and two co-leaders, Biology Professor Floyd Hayes and Nursing Professor Sandra Ringer, this year’s mission trip included 17 students. Nicolette Piaubert, a PUC nursing professor, also volunteered and helped lead healthcare services.
Kenya
June 19 - June 28 2023
The school provided education and care to Masai girls whose families forced them into child marriages. PUC painted school buildings and provided supplies.
Southwestern Kenya
March 24 - April 4, 2022
PUC donated computers and a projector to a girls’ secondary school and assisted local teachers, worked construction of a new clinic building, provided clinic health care, and hosted Vacation Bible School.
Southwestern Kenya
August 19-31, 2021
Painted the girls’ secondary school and provided health care in the clinic
Mana Island, Fiji
July 16-27, 2019
Providing snorkeling gear to school children and took them snorkeling.
Southwestern Kenya
March 22 - April 1, 2019
Helped with the construction of a new building at a girls’ secondary school, painted a non-denominational Bible training center, provided clinic health care, and organized Vacation Bible School.
Southwestern Kenya
September 2-12, 2018
Painted buildings at a clinic and provided health care.
Mana Island, Fiji
March 22 - April 1, 2018
Worked on the construction of a new home for school teachers and provided health care in the clinic.
Amazonas, Brazil
December 31, 2016 - January 9, 2017
Worked on constructing a new home for health care workers, gave English classes for children, provided a community health fair, and organized Vacation Bible School.
Amazonas, Brazil
March 18-27, 2016
Helped construct a new home for health care workers, taught English classes for children, provided clinic health care, and hosted Vacation Bible School.
Amazonas, Brazil
March 20-30, 2015
Constructed a new home for health care workers, painted a health clinic, delivered water filters to communities, taught English classes for children, provided health care, and organized Vacation Bible School.
Amazonas, Brazil
March 21-30, 2014
Constructed a new clinic, taught English classes for children, and hosted a Vacation Bible School.
Amazonas, Brazil
March 22-31, 2013
Painted a mission compound and provided a community health fair.
Medical Mission Trips
Indonesia
July 18-23, 2022
PUC repaired cleft lip/palate patients, removed masses on the skin, prescribed and provided medicines to patients with medical symptoms, and counseled and educated health messages in collaboration with local churches there.
Dhaka, Bangladesh
July 15-19, 2019
Five physicians and surgeons, four nurses, and 15 volunteers repaired cleft lip/palates and prescribed and counseled medical symptoms.
Medan, Indonesia
July 16-20, 2018
A medical mission group repaired cleft lip/palates and prescribed and counseled medical symptoms.
Battambang, Cambodia
July 13 – 24, 2017
Organized a medical mission group that 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 and counseled medical patients, removed masses on the skin, and gave health lectures.
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Aug 29 – Sep 7, 2014
Prescribed and counseled medical patients and removed masses on the skin.
Cagayan de Oro, Philippines
Aug 27 – Sep 10, 2013
Prescribed and counseled medical patients and removed skin masses.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Aug 9 – 30, 2012
PUC worked with Adventist International Medical Missionaries to prescribe, counsel medical patients, and remove skin masses.