Southeast Asia

Join us this spring as we serve alongside long-term workers in Southeast Asia! This trip will be strategically focused on prayer, demonstrating the gospel through service, and personal evangelism. On this trip, you can expect to engage with locals, learn about their culture, serve them, offer to pray with them, and seek to share the gospel with them! 

• The team will start the trip at the partner's hub and receive orientation on the unreached people groups. 
• Practice training in Disciple-Making Movement principles and practice to prepare you for community trips. 
• Overnight stays in authentic village homes, experiencing their lifestyle, work, and play. 
• Grow in your ability to live and communicate cross-culturally. 
• Experience a frontier mission field where you can interact directly with unreached people groups. 
• Live in a dynamic mission community for accountability, and fellowship, expand your global vision, and increase your witness. 
• Use your unique gifts and talents to bless others. 
• Enjoy God’s amazing creation on the sea and land.

Why

The remoteness of the villages they serve makes gaining access to their target people groups difficult. However, the cultural tourism model allows them to enter into these remote villages, stay in their homes, and live life on life with them. Our teams can love their host families by sharing testimonies, praying for sick family members, and exchanging gifts.

How

The partner will conduct a survey trip 2-3 weeks before the team's arrival to meet with the village chief and request permission to bring a team. They ask the chief to coordinate 2-3 host homes and any activities he believes are unique to their village. Once the team arrives, they ask the team to be compassionate learners of the new culture by engaging with people, sharing their testimonies, and praying for those who are sick. If we find anyone who has a spiritual hunger to study God's word, the long-term team will follow up with them once our short-term team leaves.

What to expect

As team members are learning from and engaging with others, team members should have a heart posture of humility and remember that culture does not make people, people make the culture. You are expected to participate in all their team activities, events, fasts, meals, prayer meetings, work meetings, etc. Be ready to be flexible, as activities are often subject to change due to various factors (e.g. last-minute schedule changes). While in the village you will be expected to live as a villager.
This could include:

• Cooking meals with your host family and eating their food
• Spending the day living like a villager
• Sleeping on the floor
• Walking many miles and going on hikes to see waterfalls or different locations
• Showers and restrooms will look different from what you are used to

Other expectations include: 

• We expect all team members to spend individual time in the Word and prayer outside of the group prayer meetings. This can be a hard discipline to carry out, especially when on a village trip. We can’t emphasize enough the need to abide in the Lord daily!
• Come ready and eager to learn, as life and ministry here most likely differ from what you’re accustomed to.
• Be aware of your needs to maintain spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical health. If you need something, ask. 

Trip Trainings

Our goal is to send teams that are a blessing to our partners which means sending a team that is fully prepared when they reach their destination. To ensure our teams are ready, we have teams go through four mandatory trainings. Trainings are designed to help each participant grow as a disciple of Jesus, be fully prepared for your time on the field, get to know your team before travel, and identify your role in fulfilling the Great Commission even after the trip is over. There will be 4 mandatory trainings before the trip. The dates will be listed in your Service Reef profile under meetings once your application is approved. Trainings are normally held on Sunday afternoons. If you have to miss a training because of a prior commitment or illness, you will need to connect with your Team Leader to review all the material you missed. Missing more than one training is grounds for removal from the team. 

Support Raising

All trip participants are encouraged to support raise for their trip. It is an opportunity to see how God provides. Global Outreach will be doing an in-person support-raising training at your 1st training. We will also provide you with a support-raising packet to help walk you through the process.

Financial Information

• The cost of the trip includes travel, trip insurance, transportation, supplies, lodging, and meals for the duration of the trip. The only thing it doesn't include is souvenirs and recreational excursions. 
• IRS Guidelines - For contributions to be tax deductible, the church must have ultimate control/discretion as to how the money is spent. This means that any financial gift received for a trip is non-refundable. 
• Any trip participant who has to drop out of the trip for any reason is required to cover all trip expenses incurred by the church on their behalf.