 Two recent Pike Central High School graduates will travel out of the country this summer to spread the word of God. Jana Branham and Tyler Lowe, who attend church at Pikeville Free Will Baptist, joined E-Team. E-Team is a short-term summer missions experience for students who have completed 10th, 11th, or 12th grade. The program provides a week of training and two weeks of hands-on experience. Both students will start their mission in Nashville, Tennessee for training. After training, Branham will head to Tokyo, Japan, and Lowe will travel to Uruguay. Uruguay, a lot like Tokyo, it's not somewhere you usually hear about people going on mission trips, but it's largely an unreached country. I think it's like 7% of the people profess Christianity. There's a lot of Roman Catholicism in Uruguay, and so there's a lot of people that think they have to work their way towards God and stuff like that, and so hopefully we'll get opportunities to tell them about salvation by grace. While Branham and Lowe have different reasons for becoming missionaries, both felt it was their calling. I went to a student leadership training called Truth and Peace, and while we were there, we had a concert of prayer, and the concert of prayer is like you pray without ceasing for like hours, and it sounds really terrible, but it was really awesome. They give you topics to pray about, and when we prayed about missionary work, I really felt God like tugging me in that direction, and when I looked into it in the Bible, it's definitely something that God wants all Christians to do. The trip will begin Thursday and last for three weeks. Reporting in Pikeville for EKB News, I'm Shelby Steele.