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21 Oct 2014

How to Safeguard Your Valuables

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Trip Safety

Protecting valuables is critical for mission travelers, and there are plenty of ways for team members to safeguard the items they need in order to return home. Consider these suggestions to help secure money, passports, identification, and more in the field: 7 Ways to Protect Your...

15 Oct 2014

Ebola Travel Safety: Prevent the Spread

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Trip Safety

Tips from the Experts We've compiled tips from the CDC, WHO, and elsewhere on Ebola travel safety. The experts recommend you avoid nonessential travel to Liberia, Guinea, and Sierre Leon. If you MUST travel, here are some precautions you should follow. Please share this important information with your social networks. ...

10 Oct 2014

Reflecting on High School Mission Trips: Part 2

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Mission Trips

We're continuing our series on reflecting on high school mission trips. Last week we heard from Cacey, a 20-something who looked back on her youth group mission trip experience to Belize. Read about Cacey's joys, struggles, and hindsight reactions here. This week, we pick the brain of...

03 Oct 2014

Reflecting on High School Mission Trips: Part 1

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Mission Trips

If you or your child is involved in youth ministry, going on a mission trip will probably be one of the hallmark experiences of the high school youth group experience. We're taking some time to think through high school mission trips in the next couple of weeks...

25 Sep 2014

How to Survive a Missions Conference

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Leadership & Team Building, Mission Trips

Our team has the privilege of attending many missions conferences over the course of the year. Conferences are great - chock-full of amazing information, opportunities to learn, and many new connections and friends. All that means a ton of inspiration, not to mention exhaustion. How do you cope? 1....

18 Sep 2014

Fall Reading List: Books on Missions

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Mission Trips

Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions by John Piper Let the Nations Be Glad! has become a modern missions classic. A trusted resource for thousands of missionaries, pastors, church leaders, and laypeople, it provides a biblical basis for missions and worship....

16 Sep 2014

Humans vs. Robots

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10 Sep 2014

25 Ways to Process Your Summer Mission Trip

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Mission Trips

Send detailed thank you letters to your supporters. Talk honestly about your experience to trusted friends. Pray for clarity about how to serve at home. Pray for the people you met on the field. Write in your journal. Make a Pressie to share with...

20 Aug 2014

DIY Luggage Markers: Make Your Bag Stand Out

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Trip Planning

If you've got a black or other popular colored suitcase like most of the population, you may have found yourself standing in front of the luggage return wondering which one is yours. Marking your bag is easy can save you a lot of time and the...

14 Aug 2014

9 Simple Ways to Cope with the Stress of Serving Abroad

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Mission Trips

The following is a guest post written by Kayleen Mickelson, a missionary who served in Bolivia. Read on to learn some simple and practical ways to cope with the common stresses of serving abroad. ~~~ Teaching fifth grade for a year in Bolivia with new pressures on me...