Wheaton, Ill. -- The Thunder men's basketball team will be traveling to Greece next week for a sports ministry trip in partnership with Beyond Sports. The team is set to depart campus on Monday, May 18 and will return to Wheaton on Wednesday, May 27. The men's basketball coaches and student-athletes will be joined in Greece by Dr. David Lauber, Dean of Humanities and Theological Studies at Wheaton College, and the group will spend one half of their trip in Athens and the other half in Thessaloniki.

While in Greece, the team plans to play three exhibition games against local professional club teams and will retrace part of the route that the Apostle Paul took through the country in the first century AD.

Various members of Wheaton's traveling party will provide occasional updates from the team's time overseas, and those updates will be posted here in this story next week.