Register Now for 2022! Find Your Mission Trip
1 Week to 9 months — The simplest way to serve and grow together.
1 Week to 9 months — The simplest way to serve and grow together.
Live into your calling as a follower of Jesus.
Love your neighbors across the country or around the world by meeting tangible needs and serving others.
See the image of God in every person.
Build meaningful relationships across cultural boundaries that honor each person created in God’s image.
Mature and grow in your faith together.
Serve with open ears and open hands, to give and also receive the gifts others have to offer.
Live your mission.
Mission trips are intentional service and learning experiences that help youth and adults serve others and become more like Jesus together. Since 2003, Experience Mission has partnered with churches around the world with a vision to do missions in a healthier way. Join us!
Mission trips are intentional service and learning experiences that help youth and adults from different backgrounds to serve and love others like Jesus. Since 2003, Experience Mission has partnered with churches around the world with a vision to do missions in a healthy way. Join us!
These 6-10 day volunteer mission trips are ideal for youth groups, college teams, and more. Find your fit here!
EM has ministry partners in over 25 communities, so whether you're looking for an international or domestic mission trip, we'd love to help you get there.
U.S. Mission Trips
Urban, rural, and relief trips
Central America Mission Trips
Serve in Belize & Costa Rica
Caribbean Mission Trips
Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba & more
Africa Mission Trips
From 10 days to 9 months
Holy Land Mission Trips
10-day trips to Israel & Palestine
Discover life and faith on unique Christian mission trips for college students.
Africa
Namibia, South Africa & more
Latin America / Caribbean
Costa Rica, Haiti, Cuba & more
Holy Land
Israel & Palestine
EM’s approach to missions
EM’s approach to missions
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Find your trip and fill out an interest form today!
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Our staff will connect with you and help find and prepare the best trip for you.
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Serve and grow together on a life-changing mission trip.
Experience Mission strives to be a mission trip organization that helps people of all ages (on youth mission trips and mission trips for adults) love and serve others like Jesus—sacrificially, holistically, and whole-heartedly—with all aspects of each person in mind. Learn More
Mission Trip organizations like EM should be about DOING JUSTICE, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God. We feel compelled to continue this work until there is an end to racism, inequality, and unjust systems that are the opposite of the heart of Jesus.
Since 2003, Experience Mission has set out to help people love and serve others like Jesus—sacrificially, holistically, and whole-heartedly—with all aspects of each person in mind. Learn More
After thousands of local and international mission trips, we have encouraging stories to share and advice for future volunteers. We hope these resources make your experience serving less stressful and more meaningful.
3 Ways to Use EM's Cross Cultural Training Sessions How to use EM's 5 free 90-minute cross-cultural training sessions (with a group or by yourself) this summer.
If One Part Suffers: Our Commitment to Fighting Racism and Injustice In seeking to DO JUSTICE, love mercy, and walk humbly with God, we feel compelled to continue this work until there is an end to racism, inequality, and unjust systems that are the opposite of the heart of Jesus.
The Best Mission Work You Can Do This Year Mission work centers around following the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and intentionally loving and serving others. Your mission could take you across the globe, but it's also just as likely to call you to serve others across the street.
How to Go on a Mission Trip You are well on your way to serving on a mission trip! Check out our the simple 3-step process to serving on a mission trip with Experience Mission.
Why Serve with a Missionary Organization? Selecting the right partner missionary organization can be a great first step in making sure you serve in a way that brings life to all involved.
How to Know If a Mission Trip is Right for You There are only 3 things you need in order to serve on a mission trip, and they are accessible to everyone.
What Mission Trips Mean to Us The members of our staff are all passionate about missions, but many do not have the opportunity to talk about it with those considering trips. Hear from some of the EM family what mission trips mean to them.
What I'm Grateful For This Thanksgiving Missions can't happen in the conventional way we think of it, but it can still happen right where we are.
Best Domestic Mission Trips for 2021 The best thing we can do is make plans to love and serve others, trusting that God will work in whatever situations this year has to throw at us. But it still may make sense for many groups to plan for mission trips a little closer to home in 2021.
13 Books to Help You Love Your Neighbor (and grow in your faith!) If you are looking for ways to grow in your faith and understanding of God and serving others, check out these recommendations.
Best Christian Gap Year Programs of 2021 & 2022 After the year we've all been through, there's no denying that we could all use a break. But a Gap Year is way more than just a break from normal life.
What to Know about Christian Travel 3 big ideas to consider as you decide whether or not to embark on a mission trip or a different Christian travel experience.
Best Mission Trips: 15 Short Term Mission Opportunities Join Experience Mission in 2021 & 2022 on an adult or youth mission trip! Serve and grow together on one of these 15 short-term mission opportunities.
Why Go on a Mission Trip? It may be surprising that we think everyone should ask this question, but the honest truth is serving others on missionary trips in an unhealthy way can do more harm than good.
Is Missions about Social Justice or Evangelism? When I look at the life of Jesus, his example seems clear. He didn't just care about people's spiritual condition, but he cared about their social and physical needs as well.
How to Select a Partner Organization for Church Mission Trips Selecting the right partner missions organization can be a great first step in making sure you serve in a way that brings life to all involved, while also removing the burden of putting it all together yourself.
How to Take a Christian Gap Year While gap years can take many forms, this "Year on Pause" is a chance to pursue your passions, discover your unique gifts, and hopefully, mature and grow in your faith.
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Best Mission Trips in Latin America Latin America is full of beauty, culture, and people who are bursting with love for others. Where should you start?
5 Virtual Mission Trip Fundraising Ideas We want to be a resource for all mission trip teams and individual participants as we all navigate this unknown situation together.
20 Ways to Fundraise for Your Mission Trip During a Pandemic 20 great fundraising ideas that help mission trip volunteers be creative and fundraise effectively within the limitations of stay at home orders or bans on large gatherings.
Resources for Fighting Racism and Injustice Books and films that introduce topics of racism and injustice, tell important stories and invite you to engage in the work of sacrificially loving your neighbors. Every single one.
10 Best High School Mission Trips During this time of life, mission trips can be an incredibly impactful way to challenge students and help them engage deeply with service at a local and global level — and that’s worth pursuing.
Top Mission Trips to Take Post Grad If you are post-grad and think it’s too late to travel, it’s not! Take three months to explore the world, and see the heart of God in new and exciting places. It may be scary to take the leap of faith, but I guarantee you will never regret it.
5 Steps to Serving Others Well As followers of Christ, we know that we are called to serve others, but how does this translate in our complicated cultural context?
‘These People’ Have Names Most of the time I view my life with me at the center. And if we’re not careful, we can take this perspective with us into missions, accidentally overlooking the very people we desire to know and serve.
5 Myths About Taking a Gap Year More and more young adults are committing to spend a year abroad, but there are still a lot of unhelpful myths surrounding the choice to do a Gap Year.
EM's RISING program is empowering youth in Haiti to build a better future through education, mentoring, and resources. Help us inspire hope by investing in the physical, mental, and spiritual development of young people in often-overlooked communities.
EM's RISING program is empowering youth in Haiti to build a better future through education, mentoring, and resources. Help us inspire hope by investing in the physical, mental, and spiritual development of young people in often-overlooked communities. Learn More
You must have a group size of at least 6 members to join this trip. Please view the Small Team trips or call our Servicing Department for more options at 888-475-6414.
For most trips, you must have a group size of at least 6 members. Please view the Small Teams tab on each Community page or call our Servicing Department for more options at 888-475-6414.
