No don’t worry about getting killed
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It’s the disappearing thing that keeps happening
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That you got to worry about
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I am in a church youth group and we are going on a mission trip to cedar rapids Iowa this summer, we are designing t shirts and need to think of a short and catchy slogan as well as a design for the t-shirts…
any idea?

nothing too religious please

Having a hopping time at "See da Rabbits" (cedar rapids) LOL … ok its not that great

I want to go somewhere out of the US, during my Spring Break to volunteer. I am not apart of any religion so from what I understand about mission trips, it can’t be a mission trip.

I want to go into medicine (not dental), so I would like my volunteer trip to reflect my interests.

What organizations should I contact if I wanted to do this?

You will want to volunteer in a Spanish speaking country, since the language is so important among Latino patients. A Spanish translator in a typical walk-in clinic in Queens NY for example, is absolutely necesary, Not to speak of Texas, Florida, and California, the states where most of the residency spots can be found.

You don´t need to avoid religious organizations as long as it is related to medicine. For example, I heard of a Canadian group that travelled to Mexico City, to the slums to hold masses and people lined up to recieve the only medical care that they often would have had in their lifetime. In Guadalajara, Hospital Civil Viejo, the oldest hospital in the City, actually started off as a mission.

There are many volunteer organizations like this, Volunteers for Peace is one of them. http://www.ivsp.org/vfpsearch.aspx
Just google this site and they have a description of each place. Make sure it is sort of medical related, and start off by gaining a basic first aid course, and Spanish courses in University. But if I had another chance, I would look up University websites in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and find a chance to volunteer from these sites. In either case, all the best.

Dr Tomas Ungar MIP (Medico Interno Pregrado) Guadalajara Jalsico, Mexico.

My girlfriend and I, 20 and 21 years old, will be leading worship in New Orleans on a mission trip with the youth group from our church. Though we are not in youth anymore, the youth pastor asked us to come along to lead worship, something we both are really looking forward to. We leave in about a month. I am just looking for some suggestions of good songs to play. I play guitar and sing and she sings extremely well. Thanks for all your help!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBezK_v_FqY&feature=related

I’m going to mexico with my cousin in a few weeks for spring break.. all my life she’s been the one that’s always one step ahead of me. (i’m older) everyone is always saying she’s so pretty and skinny, She’s more pretty, has the better car, has a perfect boyfriend whose already on a mission, gets perfect grades and is just all around perfect. she’s beautiful… i need to figure out ways that i could be better than her. and for my trip i need to loose a few pounds just so i can look like her… any ideas?

Stop being jealous. Quit trying to be like your cousin…it’s kind of pathetic. You can only be you.

Are there any organizations where you can apply for a grant or sponsorship that is dedicated to helping people on mission trips with their costs? If there are such organizations, what are they and what is required to apply for aid?

Yes. But they are normally associated with a particular denomination or a subgroup within a denomination (like a diocese). Contact your pastor or priest or check out the website of whatever denomination you belong to (probably under missions).

Hi, I’m 17, I want to be religious, but I just can’t really feel god all the time… anyways, last year I went with my youth group on a YouthWork’s mission trip, which was really great and some of the activities were very spiritual and impacting, and the work we did was a little rewarding… but i don’t really feel it today.

Anyways, my youthgroup at my Methodist church doesn’t have a real leader, but I think the parents would organize a mission trip if we got it started for them.
i’ve been doing a ton of google searches but would like to ask some real people.

if you know of any organizations or missions around the Pacific Northwest that are fun, rewarding, and spiritually rejuvenating, please let me know!!!!!

Jennifer’s correct in that mission trips can be a "mountain top" experience. I went on my first missions trip when I was a freshman in high school and immediately I was hooked. I found myself out there in situations where the gospel of Christ became real to me. I was no longer just studying Him in a sunday school class. I was active and the cool thing was God was actively using myself and my team mates as we shared the gospel with people we normally would have never seen before. And we saw God move as He brought people to Himself through us. Lives were changed, including ours! It was wonderful! Hard, but life changing! I knew then that this was what I wanted to do with my life.

I later attended Youth With A Mission after high school and it was one of the highlights of my life. I’d highly recommend checking them out. There are bases all over the U.S. and world. Even one in Idaho and Canada. Each has it’s own focus but there is training offered in each that helps people grow closer to God and also get grounded in the Bible. But then take that experience with God and learning from the Bible out into the world both locally and internationally. And on my trips we saw God move as He brought people to Himself through us. Lives were changed, including ours! It was wonderful! Hard, but life changing! It’s great for all ages and all denominations!

http://www.ywam.com/

Washington Base -

http://www.ywamdb.org/about

Idaho Base -

http://www.ywamidaho.org/cascade/Home.html

Oregon Base -

http://www.ywamsalem.org/

British Columbia Canada Bases -

http://www.ywamcanada.org/locations/bc.html

Another top notch base is located in Colorado -

http://www.ywamcolorado.org/whoweare.html

I’m doing a project on the novel A Salty Peice of Land by Jimmy Buffett, and I need ten items for a project that describe the novel, it’s kinda hard :/

Here’s a summary of the novel.

A Salty Piece of Land brings back the character of Tully Mars from Jimmy Buffett’s previous novel, Tales from Margaritaville. Tully is a Wyoming cowboy on the lam. The ranch where he lives and works has been converted to a poodle ranch run by a universally hated woman by the name of Thelma Barston. After Tully throws a massage table through her plate glass window, she uses her political connections to trump up charges and have a warrant issued for his arrest. Tully takes his faithful steed, Mr. Twain, and decides he wants to see the ocean. With bounty hunters on his trail, this begins a series of adventures for him that will take him to the Alabama coast, Key West, Mexico, Belize, Cuba, and the Bahamas.

Tully is a kind soul, hard worker, and a quick learner. He befriends a shrimp boat captain named Captain Kirk who teaches him his first lessons about the ways of the sea and transports him and Mr. Twain to a remote part of the Yucatan peninsula called Punta Margarita. He also meets and begins a budding friendship with a musician/treasure hunter/pilot named Willie Singer. Tully lands a job as a fly-fishing guide at the Lost Boys fishing camp in Punta Margarita. It’s run by a man named Bucky Norman who leases the land from the manager of a country western singer named Tex Sex. The other fly-fishing guide is a Mayan shaman, Ix-Nay. In the remote outpost of Punta Margarita, Tully feels like he can leave his past behind and try to figure out where his new life will lead him. On a trip to the Mayan ruins at Tulum, he’s stranded when he totals a Jeep. While waking a from a ganja-induced dream on the beach there, he sees a beautiful schooner coming into the bay. Its captain is 101-year old Cleopatra Highbourne, and she’s on a mission to find a fresnel lens for a lighthouse she wants to refurbish on the Bahamian island of Cayo Loco, the salty piece of land of the book’s title. It’s an endeavor that will eventually involve Tully and his friends, but first he must make a trip to Belize to find a Land Rover to replace the Jeep. A man on the run from the law with a fake passport and bounty hunters in pursuit must be careful. Which is how Tully ended up in the middle of a wild spring break party with a couple hot college girls.

That’s a quick outline to the plot, although the plot is not that important. It serves as the vehicle to further the adventures of Tully and his new-found friends. Some of the chapters in this novel are letters from Willie Singer as he searches for a fresnel lens while island hopping his way across the south Pacific in a seaplane. Each adventure is just plain fun as Tully finds out what’s important to his life, and that answer is invariably a sense of ethics, a lot of fun, and good friends you can count on anytime. It helps that a lot of these friends are very wealthy and can come to the rescue at the drop of a hat. Tully continues to find like-minded people, often making instant connections as if they share the same karma. Karma and mysticism play a recurring role in A Salty Piece of Land, from his father’s friend and Indian medicine man, Johnny Red Dust, to Ix-Nay the Mayan shaman, to an odd religion on a forgotten South Sea island.

A Salty Piece of Land is a fun ride through Jimmy Buffett’s idea of paradise, and you get the sense it’s a place he’s visited often. Many of his own loves, flying, sailing, and fishing, are featured prominently in the novel. It’s a world where drink, ganja, and fun are pleasant additions if not done to excess. It’s also a place where the dark forces of greed, corpocracy, and pollution threaten paradise. A disdain for tourists and resorts and an affection for indigenous people who’ve learned to live off the land runs strong through the novel. Even Cuban baseball, played for pride instead of greedy contracts, plays a role.

This is not a literary novel and A Salty Piece of Land has no pretensions that it is. There will undoubtedly be those readers put off by its lack of any real drama or suspense. At times it’s predictable, but it’s a comforting predictability at that. You know the good guys will win, the friends will be there in the time of need, and all surprises will eventually be pleasant ones. That doesn’t distract from the enjoyment of the novel, but adds to it instead. Jimmy Buffett’s prose easily transports the reader to the different settings in his paradise. I don’t fish, I’ve never sailed a schooner across the Caribbean, or flown a plane. By the end of this novel, I wanted to do all three. Therein lies the charm of this book: its easy access to warmth and beauty of many types

teehee…anyways, i already have a Jimmy Buffett shirt because he wrote the novel and a poodle because Tully gets transferred to a poodle ranch, I’d LOVE some help!

Thanks:)
~Miss

How about a schooner, lighthouse, seaplane, fly-fishing rod (all miniatures like from a craft store), a miniature island (just cut out a small roundish shape from a piece of cardboard and glue sand on it with maybe a palm tree), a stick with feathers for the Indian Medicine Man, a passport (just make a small cardboard replica), and maybe cowboy boots and/or hat?

Lately, I’ve become extremely interested in participating in a mission trip, but I have no idea how to go about it. I’d be open to any location. The only problem is, I’ll need subsidy. My family is going through a rough time, and I just don’t have the money to go on a mission. If anyone knows of any mission trip organizations that offer financial aid, please let me know! It’d be a great help! Thanks in advance.

I think that most churches that offer financial assistance or who cover the cost of the trips require one to be a member of that church or at least that denomination. I’ve always gone to a small, non-denominational church, and the people going on mission trips from our always had to pay their own way.

I was looking for some information on companies/organizations that offer trips like this to university students during the summer. Length of stay doesn’t matter. I would prefer to travel to Africa.

Preferably answers from people who have traveled with the company or know someone who has. Thank You!

I’ve gone with Adventures In Missions on a few trips and loved it. Great organization if you’re looking for a Christian group.