Author: Adventures

              You’ve graduated from high school and applied to college. Maybe you’ve even spent a year in school. If you wanted to, you could start pursuing the American dream. Or you could choose something different. You could choose to take hold of an unexpected opportunity. The opportunity to see the world. The opportunity to change it. We’re here to offer you that choice. Next year, you could spend nine months diving into three diverse regions: three months in Central America, three in...

*Female Trip Only*               Behind Thailand’s beautiful beaches, booming tourism, and the country’s ever-smiling faces lies a terrible secret: modern day slavery. Thailand’s red-light districts attract an ugly side of tourism. Thousand of people, even children, are exploited as prostitutes. You can help. Join our Passport team with our partner ministry in Bangkok, Thailand. Samaritan Creations seeks to rescue, restore, and empower women ensnared by the sex trade in Thailand with the grace and love of God....

  Join our Passport team this fall in Tacloban City, Philippines!    If all you know about the Philippines is that it’s in Southeast Asia, you’re missing out! Once a Spanish colony, this island nation is filled with natural beauty – mountains and beaches line the coast.  While it remained somewhat stable economically, growth for the Philippines has been an uphill battle. When Typhoon Yolanda hit the central Philippines on November of 2013, widespread damage from landfalls, winds and heavy rains left much devastation across the...

Dramatic desert landscapes, snowy Andean hikes, beautiful blue coastline, and lush Amazon rainforest all make up the diverse South American country of Peru. Even though the fingerprint of our Creator is all over this country, its people are intertwined in a fusion of Catholicism and traditional native religions. Just under a third of the population live in poverty, with the selective prosperity based largely on the narcotic drug trade. Many of the people in the Amazon River communities where your ministry will take place do not get visitors often – especially ones that bring the hope...

              Nicaragua’s biodiversity and booming tourism mask the hurting and forgotten people of Central America’s largest country. Nicaragua’s unemployment rate is rising and most of Nicaraguans live on less than two dollars a day.    Here, you can connect with people in the slums. You’ll have the opportunity of serving and meeting the needs of those in desperate poverty. You’ll also spend time serving the children of a local orphanage. You can expect construction, gardening, teaching...

            Spend your summer in Guatemala, a land of natural beauty, excellent coffee, tumultuous history, and vanishing hope. It’s more than just pretty scenery. Guatemala is also home to families living in garbage dumps, orphanages, natural disasters like volcanic eruptions and mudslides, and overflowing prisons. You can reach the people of Guatemala by bringing the hope of Jesus to the hurting. Minister to the communities by leading VBS, visiting the sick in their homes, teaching English or community...