Jesus is changing lives every day through people just like you on Group Mission Trips.
Volunteers
This week in Grand Rapids, God began to work almost immediately. Each member of the crew has to choose different roles and usually this is or can be a somewhat difficult task - teens either being anxious or complaining about certain things.
Volunteers
I've always heard that international mission trips like this are life-changing, and I found that to be true in El Salvador. In addition to showing God's love to the people of this country through our service time each day, we learned so much.
Volunteers
We served in Big Lake, Alaska during the week of July 17-21, 2017. The crew I was working with built a recovery building for the Alaska Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center. There were three of us from Ohio and four from Colorado, four adults and three teen boys.
Volunteers
Group Mission Trips work has spread through the community of Norristown, PA, even after the Workcamp that took place here, empowering my church and me to continue to serve.
Volunteers
This was my sixth year volunteering as a Red Shirt and also my first official year as a site host. It's amazing to see what a difference the Week of Hope is making in San Diego.
Volunteers
Joe H. recently served in Puerto Rico. Here's what he had to say about his time helping hurricane victims:
Volunteers
I have had the opportunity to serve on many Group Workcamps as a student and as a chaperone. This year, I was a chaperone with my church in Greeley, Colorado.
Students
This was Worden UMC Youth Group's first Group Missions Trips that we chose to attend following the devastating tornado in Joplin, Missouri of 2011. Looking back, of the 4 GMT's that I was a part of this was so special and my favorite for many reasons:
Parents
I just wanted to write about what an impact Group Workcamps and Week of Hope have had on my daughter's life. She attended multiple Workcamps and a Week of Hope, which fueled her passion for missions.
Students
My name is Samantha, and my group and I served in Grand Rapids, Michigan, from June 19-24, 2016. When we were assigned jobs for our crew, I immediately wanted to be devotional leader. I don't know why, but it popped out of the page at me.
Students
This week has been one of the most life changing weeks. My youth group went on a Week of Hope mission trip to Grand Rapids, Michigan. We got to help out at a camp called Camp Zion in Grandville. It's a free camp for kids from 2nd grade through 6th grade.
Students
This past week has really been such an amazing experience. I got to serve at a Workcamp in Valdosta, GA. I've really grown as a person this past week. I've gotten so close with God. I've worked hard on being bold this week, and I will continue to try to be bold.
Students
This week I had the pleasure of traveling to the Workcamp in Herman, Minnesota to with the greatest group of people I've ever known to work on and repair people's houses.
Students
The following life-change story comes from a Language Arts class paper submitted May 2016 by a high school freshman. We give this paper an A+!
Students
This was my first mission trip EVER. It was also my first time with Group Mission Trips, and basically my first time being with a bunch of people that I have never met prior to this trip. The mission trip I attended was in New Bern, North Carolina.
Students
I am from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and this was my very first mission trip. I went to Nashville, Tennessee with my youth group. I was then put into crew four, which ended up being a crew of all girls who I've become very close with.
Students
What can I say about Group Mission Trips? This trip changed my life. I loved meeting people and working with them to help put their lives together after a devastating tornado ripped through Joplin, MO. This was my first mission trip but thankfully not my last!
Students
My name is Dylan, and I served on my first mission trip from mid-June, 2017, in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. Two major changes happened to me on this Workcamps trip. One is that during worship, I sang so much louder than I ever have before.
Students
This past year, I have been sucked into the pressures of society more and more. But while I was on my mission trip, I was happy the entire time—happy to serve people I didn't even know. During the week, I made a promise to God to try my best to uphold and worship him, and stay on track.
Students
"Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things, because I am going to the Father." John 14:12
Students
On Wednesday night of my mission trip, there was a time when we could pray and talk to God alone. After this whole session, I was able to get my courage up and go talk to one of the Red Shirt Staff.
Students
A few years ago, my dad passed away due to a heart attack. A month afterwards, my mom decided to fight for custody of me as I was living with my stepmom. Eventually, she gave up, but that event put a hole in the relationship between my mom and me.
Students
I've always had a hard time with accepting someone else's love and forgiveness because I've felt that I was so undeserving, even when it came to God's love and forgiveness. I knew that His love is unconditional and His forgiveness is never ending.
Students
The 2017 Group Mission Trips theme is "The Road." This year was my 4th Workcamp and the closest one we lived to. We traveled a whole 3 hours and 40 minutes down "The Road" from Greenbay, WI to the big town of Racine, WI.
