costa rica

Dates: May 22 - June 4, 2023 | Cost: $2,525.00 | Trip overview: This team serves with Students International in Desamparados, Costa Rica. During their trip, the team will get to know the local culture and many wonderful people as they stay with Costa Rican host families. Each day, the team meets up at the local community center where they spend time connecting with God before heading out to various ministry sites, which include: a Boys and Girls club, Creative Arts, Education, Sports, and women’s social work/microfinance opportunities. Students International will work with the team before the trip to place each member at a site that fits their vocational interests. The team will also get to hike in the La Paz Waterfall Garden on their day off | Host organization: Students International | Team size: 5-12

Dominican Republic

Dates: May 8 - June 6, 2023 | Cost: $3,175.00 | Trip overview: Based in Jarabacoa, this team will partner with Kids Alive International. Each week, the team will work at one of the seven schools and three residential campuses run by Kids Alive to engage with children in the following ways: sports ministry, art classes, English classes, math classes, and Bible and AWANA classes. Along with that, the team will help as needed in medical and nutrition programs, organizational projects, and maintenance and construction projects. Additionally, team members will visit impoverished barrios and be exposed to proven practices of holistic ministry for transforming lives for God's glory. Finally, the team will also enjoy some weekend excursions to waterfalls, historic sites, and a beach resort on the final weekend | Host organization: Kids Alive International | Team size: 5-12

egypt

Dates: May 8 - June 5, 2023 | Cost: 4,025.00 | Trip overview: Join Living and Learning International as they work with Live|Dead, a multi-denominational missions grouping that is committed to taking the church to where it does not exist. The team will work with and learn from missionaries being trained to go into the 10/40 window (an area of the world that is considered the most unreached) to plant churches. They'll also partner with local churches to serve in orphanages and with children experiencing homelessness through after school programs and sports ministry | Host organization: Living and Learning International | Team size: 5-12

greece

Dates: May 8-31, 2023 | Cost: $3,675.00 | Trip overview: Located in Athens, Greece, the One Collective team is partnering with the Second Greek Evangelical Church of Athens as they use community development ministry to engage their city. The ministry focuses on poor and marginalized populations including those experiencing homelessness, low-income youth and kids, and refugees. This team will participate in homeless feeding ministries twice a week, shower and laundry ministries for homeless men and women, coffee house outreaches for low income groups, Friday night kid's and youth community outreach for low-income populations in the neighborhood, local park outreaches for neighborhood kids and youth, ESL teaching opportunities, sport outreaches with youth or refugees, and partner with the local youth group for special events. This team will also have the chance to visit several ministry partners in the area to see how God is working in various areas of need. On days off, the team will get to explore Athens and visit ancient Corinth | Host organization: One Collective | Team size: 4-8

guatemala

Dates: May 8-23, 2023 | Cost: $2,500.00 | Trip overview: Join Clubhouse Guatemala for two weeks of intentional community development in both rural and urban areas around Guatemala City. Through partnerships with local churches and community leaders, Clubhouse is supporting a wide variety of projects and initatives that are bolstering health, education, faith, and youth development. APU students will have the opportunity to see and experience real life transformation while serving in a variety of roles and contexts, to support Clubhouse's mission and seasonal goals. There also will be the opportunity to partner with local doctors to provide health services to the local community | Host organization: Clubhouse Guatemala | Team size: 7-12

honduras

Dates: May 8-30, 2023 | Cost: $2,950.00 | Trip overview: This team will join the Footsteps Missions team in Honduras as they minister to economic orphans. Service opportunities could include nursing and/or dental work in Footstep’s medical/dental clinic (i.e. helping to give basic health and/or teeth exams, facilitating basic first aid trainings), creative Arts (VBS camps, facilitating devotionals/crafts/drama/music classes, helping to design and paint different ministry areas), light construction projects to help in the development of ministry buildings, and social work (learning about economic orphans, visiting families, helping to facilitate educational workshops at our Footsteps’ job training center). This trip offers unique service-learning opportunities with a spiritual focus by being the hands and feet of Christ in some of the most impoverished communities in all of Central America | Host organization: Footsteps Missions | Team size: 6-12

ireland

Dates: May 12 - June 11, 2023 | Cost: $4,700.00 | Trip overview: Ireland, once the land of saints and scholars, has come to be part of modern post-Christian Europe. Ideas of Christianity, Christ, and the Gospel are part of the lexicon, but they are often misunderstood, with organized religion distrusted in many quarters of Irish culture. As such, ministry is relational - walking alongside people, not seeing them as projects but knowing them as people. This team will participate in different forms of ministry, but the likely avenues for service are in the context of an after-school club and family outreach in the inner city, care and relief of the homeless in the city center, and supporting ongoing Gospel ministry in and around Dublin. Team members will need to be willing to engage in conversations, to roll up their sleeves and get working, and to be flexible all along the way | Host organization: Amoveo | Team size: 8-12

italy

Dates: May 8-22, 2023 | Cost: $2,725.00 | Trip overview: Join International Project Rome for a 12-day evangelism and church planting experience. The team has the opportunity to live and serve among unreached people group communities and refugees in Rome. Throughout their trip, the team will focus on 3 specific areas: spiritual formation, bold evangelism, and servanthood | Host organization: International Project | Team size: 4-12

mexico

Dates: June 7 - August 5, 2023 | Cost: $3,500.00 | Trip overview: Join the Avance Mexico Team in Mexico City in a 2 month immersion experience. This trip will provide the team with the opportunity to explore calling in cross-cultural ministries. Each member will live with a Mexican host family, serve in local ministries under local leadership, and learn Spanish in order to have a fully immersive and transformative experience | Host organization: United World Mission | Team size: 4-10

netherlands

Dates: June 15 - June 26, 2023 | Cost: $4,500.00 | Trip overview: Join Living and Learning International on this trip focused on learning about the realities of sexual exploitation and prostitution in Amsterdam. During this trip, the team will partner with various ministries on anti-human trafficking efforts, working with victims of sexual exploitation, and assisting ministries that work in the Red Light District. Ministry partners include: Bright Fame, an organization that provides social services to help women out of prostitution. The team will learn from the organization and help them spread the word about their services to the women in the district. The team will also work with Credo Church to help with a variety of ministries, including kid's after school programs and a coffee house ministry | Host organization: Living and Learning International | Team size: 6-12

panama

Dates: May 8-23, 2023 | Cost: $3,600.00 | Trip overview: This team has the chance to be apart of providing something every person has a right to: clean drinking water. Along with Cru and the local church, this team will work to install high tech water filters in homes of impoverished families in Panama. These filters will allow them to access up to 250 gallons a day for the next 10 years. The team will also have the chance to share the Gospel with the family and connect them with the local church | Host organization: Cru | Team size: 10-12

peru

Dates: May 8-19, 2023 | Cost: $4,200.00 | Trip overview: This team will work with various organizations alongside Living and Learning International in Lima and Cusco that work with indigenous people groups. In Lima, the team will focus on children's ministry in impoverished areas and work with refugees. The time in Cusco will include working in a home for adults who are disabled who have been abandoned. Along with that, the team will have the opportunity to have dinner in an indigenous village. On their day off, this team has the chance to visit Machu Pichu | Host organization: Living and Learning International | Team size: 5-12

philippines

Dates: May 8 - June 9, 2023 | Cost: $2,925.00 | Trip overview: Partner with Kids International Ministries in the Philippines as they work to break the cycle of poverty in the communities around them. The organization provides a multitude of programs that both meet needs and empower the community. This team will be two-fold: a focus on youth ministry and worship outreach as well as a focus on pre-natal care. During the days, part of the team will prep for youth ministry and have mentoring opportunities while part of the team is helping with the pre-natal care program (these members must be nursing students). At night, the team will lead worship and put on youth programs. The team will work with kids from ages 8 all the way through high school aged kids, having the chance to mentor and facilitate bible studies. Needed skills include the ability to play instruments, sing, and nursing skills | Host organization: Kids International Ministries | Team size: 8-12

poland

Dates: June 21 - July 20, 2023 | Cost: $4175.00 | Trip overview: For over 20 years, Josiah Venture has partnered with local churches throughout Central and Eastern Europe to put on life-changing camps for youth. The purpose of these camps is to provide fun and effective language learning for campers, expose them to the Gospel and connect them to a local church where they can be discipled and grow in their faith. During the trip, the team will serve and be responsible for multiple aspects of camp, including teaching English, leading games, hosting nightly parties, and building key relationships with campers. Josiah Venture will provide training for teams prior to and during their trip. You will also have the opportunity to stay in some local homes to meet families and experience a little bit of Polish culture and hospitality. This is a high-energy and highly relational ministry so love for teenagers is needed | Host organization: Josiah Venture | Team size: 4-12

south africa

Dates: June 7-28l 2023 | Cost: $4,850.00 | Trip overview: Join Living and Learning International on this trip that teaches students what it looks like to use their soccer and surf skills as an avenue for ministry. During their time in Limpopo, the team will be hosted by JAM ministries. JAM is focused on developing leaders who will impact Africa for Christ. The team will get to go into local villages with JAM to interact with youth serving at an after-school program (kids ministry (soccer), helping with tutoring 2-7th graders). The second half of the trip will place students in Jeffrey's Bay where they will have the opportunity to learn from the Christian Surfers organization in South Africa focused on developing relationships through surfing. | Host organization: Living and Learning International | Team size: 8-12

south korea

Dates: July 10 - August 7, 2023 | Cost: $4,025.00 | Trip overview: This team will join Footsteps Missions as they have the opportunity to minister to children through teaching interactive educational activities while also helping them to build a relationship with Jesus. This includes teaching English, cooking, craft-making, bible stories, music, science, and more! Students will get immersed in the culture through home-stays with local Korean Christians. This trip offers a great way to help connect the local children of South Korea to the gospel in an incredibly unique way | Host organization: Footsteps Missions | Team size: 6-12

spain & morocco

Dates: May 8-30, 2023 | Cost: $4,025.00 | Trip overview: Join One Challenge in southern Spain as they work with and begin to understand the experience of trafficked individuals, immigrants and refugees. This would include a prayer trip to Morocco, to understand the situation of many of the migrants in southern Spain. The team will partner with Diez42 (Ten42), a community center to meet the needs to the most vulnerable in Málaga. There will be opportunity to work with individuals from dozens of different nations, serving them through food distribution and social integration. Along with that, there will be exposure to other ministries working with trafficked individuals and immigrants. After Málaga, the team will also travel up about two hours to an area near Almería, mostly populated by trafficked individuals working in the "Sea of Plastic", Europe's greenhouse. The team will be serving migrants through different ministries. In Almería in particular, the team will be working through a local church who has a vision for challenging the Spanish church to reach their new neighbors | Host organization: One Challenge | Team size: 5-10

spain apotheca

Dates: May 13-28, 2023 | Cost: $3,225.00 | Trip overview: Join the Apotheca team in Spain as they work to put the church back in the hands of people by investing in people who are using their work to serve their community. If you struggle to know where you fit in God's kingdom on earth as it will be in heaven then Apotheca is the experience that fits for you. This team will learn how to integrate work with worship in the everyday. They will experience ways God is working through local business owners, farmers, and local leaders and learn how to apply and experience the gospel in the ordinary. Specific opportunities the team will engage in include: Listening and learning from the locals and the Apotheca team, working in a community garden where vulnerable people are bringing dignity back into their lives and to their community, learning how to make artisanal soap through our apothecary business that combines business and self-care to address issues of domestic violence and support women in vulnerable situations, serving a local market store that is setting an example of ""social economy"" alongside its' neighbors, experience a farmers basket co-op to empower local farmers and engage in social enterprise, and participate in a church remodeling movement of believers who are investing in their community, and practicing de-centering expressions of faith and grace | Host organization: One Collective | Team size: 4-6

spain camino

Dates: May 8 - June 14, 2023 | Cost: $4,800.00 | Trip overview: Join One Collective on this two-fold experience that combines being a pilgrim (walking the ancient Camino de Santiago pilgrimage) with serving pilgrims at Pilgrim House. Pilgrim House is a ministry of hospitality that serves pilgrims who have just completed the walk. During the first part of their trip, the team will be pilgrims and walk between 7-11 days of the Camino. After they finish the Camino and arrive in Santiago, they will serve with the Pilgrim House, offering support and resources for other newly-arrived pilgrims. Pilgrim House os designed to be a space where pilgrims can gather, take time to reflect on their Camino journey, and meet practical needs | Host organization: One Collective | Team size: 4

thailand

Dates: May 8-31, 2023 | Cost: $3,625.00 | Trip overview: Located in the 10/40 window, Bangkok is less than 1% Christian, and it is strategic not only because of its influence on Thailand, but also on all of Asia. This team will be take part in prayer ministry while visiting some of the spiritually darkest and least reached places in Thailand, including many Thai Buddhist temples. In addition to prayer ministry, there will also be opportunities for ministering in Bangkok's red-light districts and on college campuses. While most of the time will be in Bangkok, shorter trips will be planned to rural areas and possibly neighboring countries | Host organization: United World Mission | Team size: 4-8

uganda

Dates: July 1 - August 2, 2023 | Cost: $4,000.00 | Trip overview: Join Victory Africa Ministires, an indigenous NGO dedicated to encourage the flourishing of marginalized women and children through faith and innovations in Uganda. This team will have the opportunity to participate in the following ministries: helping teachers to teach some classes at Akanyijuka Nursery and Primary School, community outreaches, business training (assisting in training women for a micro enterprise project), sports outreach, and church activities (VBS, skits, etc.) Along with ministry, this team will have the chance to go on a safari during their time in Uganda | Host organization: Victory Africa Ministries | Team size: 7-9

GEM teams trip

Dates: May 12-24, 2023 | Cost: $3,050.00 | Trip overview: This team will join GEM ministries as they work to respond to the Ukrainian refugee crisis in Europe. The situation on the ground in Europe is constantly changing and the needs shift on a daily basis. Due to that fact, this project will be planned without being able to determine the final location and exact nature of service until much closer to the project date. GEM is responding to the current Ukrainian refugee situation by developing two Response Hubs - Bucharest, Romania and Prague, Czech Republic. These Hubs have a 3-pronged approach: relief now, support in the transition, and multiplication of the gospel. As the war continues, the needs of the refugees and those serving them change and evolve. This team would need to be prepared to respond to the current need on the ground. In Bucharest, a group of Romanian churches are working together to care for and house Ukrainian refugees. GEM is partnering with this group in a number of ways. Teams have been involved in a wide range of tasks including: cleaning the facilities, laundry, playing with children, setting up beds, organizing donations, light construction and more. In Prague, a wide range of churches and ministries are doing a wide range of activities including: kids clubs, feeding programs, warehouse distribution centers, language classes, community events, and more. While this team would not know where it is going right away, they would get to practice what it looks like to respond to the most pressing need in front of them. Flexibility will be key for this team and a deep desire to care for refugees no matter where you are is necessary | Host organization: GEM Teams | Team size: 6-12