Hong Kong Adventist College (HKAC) is looking for students to work and study as a student ambassadors for a year. Students who go will receive free tuition, food, accomodations and up to $2,000 in scholarship money.
The Student Ambassador program started in 2017 as a HKAC campus ministry project. The purpose of this initiative is to have Seventh-day Adventist students be a witness in the school.
“90 percent of our college students are not SDA,” said Dan Cheung, president of HKAC. “We need mature, mission minded SDA students to be role models and willing to share the SDA faith with HKAC students.”
Once there, student ambassadors will work along with the chaplain, teachers and dorm deans of HKAC while at the same taking up to eight credits per semester.
HKAC offers majors in religion, psychology, health and business, but students who are majoring in other fields are still welcome to come and take general courses or any other class they please. Tuition will be free of charge, and as HKAC is an international school all classes will be taught in English.
Students who are planning to apply cannot be married, must have at least one year in college, a good academic standing and be an “active, mission minded SDAs.”
“Once someone is selected to be a student ambassador, HKAC will apply the Hong Kong visa...” Said Dr. Cheung. “[Students will have the opportunity] to live in a very safe Asian city for one year… and at the end, they will still have a scholarship up to $2000 to continue their studies.”
Applications must be submitted before March 31. The program will last from Aug. 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020. Students who are going must pay for their travel and visa expenses, but once in Hong Kong, dorm accommodations and food will be provided for free.
“[Going to Hong Kong] was one of the best experiences of my life,” said Eric Stocker, a Southern alumnus who graduated in Dec. 2018 and who went to Hong Kong as a student ambassador for the 2017-2018 academic year.
“I connected with people of different countries and backgrounds. It is a perfect combination of ACA (Adventist Colleges Abroad) and SM (Student Missionaries).”
To find out more email info@hkac.edu or go to www.hkac.edu