Author: Adventures

Beauty for Ashes is the women’s ministry of Adventures in Missions. We exist to share God’s restoration, hope, and healing with suffering and victimized women through ministry and training.  On this trip, Beauty for Ashes is excited to partner with an anti-trafficking ministry out of Atlanta, GA. As a participant on this missions trip, you will join your team at a cozy cottage in North Georgia, enjoying the warmth of new friends and the expectancy of how God will move. Here, you will be trained in how to facilitate Beauty for Ashes ministry. This will be a time of...

Join a Beauty for Ashes trip to South Asia! (Women Only) South Asia has one of the fastest growing economies in the world, but this growth comes at a cost.  Despite a growing middle class, a terrible rift exists between the rich and poor of this mainly Hindu country. More than just dollars and lifestyles, this gap began generations ago in the caste system, and it has left the lower-caste people of South Asia without hope. In the South Asian culture, daughters are viewed as costly. Not only is a girl’s family expected to pay the expense associated with raising her but a...

Join a Beauty for Ashes trip to the Philippines! (Women Only) Beauty for Ashes exists to share God’s restoration, hope, and healing with suffering and victimized women through ministry and training. Through Beauty for Ashes Retreats, women support and encourage each other by sharing their own stories and experiencing the healing, redeeming power of Jesus. On this missions trip, Beauty for Ashes will serve the women of Wipe Every Tear (WET) in Manila, Philippines. Wipe Every Tear rescues precious girls trafficked in the sex trade. WET is committed to bringing hope and healing in the...

Join a Beauty for Ashes trip to Zambia! (Women Only) Zambia boasts one of the seven wonders of the world: the rushing heights of Victoria Falls, known as “the smoke that thunders”. It’s an entirely landlocked nation, touching eight sister countries and home to seventy-three tribes who speak twenty different languages.  Zambia became an independent nation in 1964 after years of British colonial rule. Since then, the economy has grown, but the Zambian people still suffer from poverty, short life expectancy, malnourishment, lack of clean water, and the AIDS crisis....