How Holistic Ministry and Church Planting is Impacting Senegal Mission Inter Senegal (MIS) is a Senegalese church planting agency that partners with United World Mission. MIS uses a holistic approach to plant churches in resistant communities, showing God’s love, building relationships and earning the right to present an alternative to a hopeless life. Senegal is a…
What do cutting wood and church planting have in common? Apparently, more than I even dreamed. We work with the Mapuche people in Southern Chile. Many of them live in the rural areas off muddy roads that wind through the mountainous countryside. They are a people group that has been marginalized by society. Their land…
My first short-term mission was in the summer of 2000 with my church’s youth group to serve in the inner city of Pittsburgh. I was just 14 at the time, but it was a memorable experience. The following summer my church decided to send another youth group mission trip, but this time we boarded planes and…
In the late 1990s one of United World Mission’s partner ministries came alongside a group of 12 women in rural Costa Rica to help them start a micro-business: the Association of Women in Biolley (ASOMOBI). Most of these women grew coffee on their small, family farms, and they wanted to create one central location to…
For over eighty years the NGO Roblealto has served children-at-risk in San Jose, Costa Rica. Its business segment operates a profitable business-as-mission model called La Granja (The Farm). La Granja combines creative entrepreneurial practices with a missions focus to build profitable businesses which provide resources for marginalized families. Last year they contributed $400,000 from business…
7 Advantages of High-Quality, Mid-term Missionary Service Today the face of missions has changed significantly. Most of our churches are filled with those who have participated in one to two week trips throughout the world. Not only have we seen an increase in these opportunities, but our members are also much more travelled than previous generations.…
From Summer Intern to Long-Term Missionary Even as a child, God had been stirring in me this call to leave home and serve Him among the needy. It took me years to discern this call, as well as laying down many fears and comforts I had. But once I had experienced a true joy in…
Scripture says that God is merciful and just, that he cares for the poor, orphans and widows, and for all the broken and de-valued of the world. We are humbled to come alongside people with deep needs, knowing that we ourselves are deeply needy as well. Jesus announced his ministry this way: “The Spirit of…