Personal Experience:
Rob Erickson-Conover-Conover Church - conoverchurchrob@nnex.net
Todd Groat-Clear Lake-Reeve EFC-refc@cltcomm.net
Rick Goff-Woodruff-Faith EFC-r.goff@verizon.net

AIM (Adventures In Missions)
6000 Wellspring Trail
Gainesville, GA 30506
1-770-983-1060
www.adventures.org
More than a short-term trip, AIM is a leader in Mission training and the experiences in the field; participants receive exposure to evangelism, church planting/growth, and community development. AIM seeks to have every participant achieve five objectives (Listen in Prayer, Share Your Faith, Build a Meaningful Relationship, Meet Felt Needs, Debrief and Respond). Teams experience the power of God and come away excited about Christ eager to serve him more at home. AIM is a Christian, interdenominational mission organization offering custom and pre-planned trips for junior high, high school, college age, and adults.

Personal Experience:
Jesse Thompson-Beloit-Rock Valley Chapel - jthompson@rockvalleychapel.org
Comments:
I went with a group of Youth Pastors to Matamoros in January of this year, as a "test run" for our trip this summer. AIM does a great job, and I am very excited about our trip this summer. They take a lot of work and time, but the benefits to students and adults can last a lifetime!

Personal Experience:
Dan DeRoche-Plover-Woodlands Church-Sr. High - dan@woodlandschurch.org
Comments:
The past 6 years I have only gone with AIM. They do such a great job and make things very easy. After four trips with them in 6 years I probably will not use anyone else.

Personal Experience:
Dan Houtsinger-Oregon-Hillcrest Bible Church - dan@oregonstudent.org
Comments:
I just checked out Adventures in Missions and I thought they were a great organization and the trip was good (trip for pastors).

Personal Experience:
Gary Anderson-Milwaukee Redeemer - theyouthpastor@juno.com
Comments:
I would highly recommend Adventures in Missions. They are great at organizing trip details, providing training materials, have clear objectives, have passionate staff, and help your team follow God more closely through each step. It would be a blessing to have another FLD group of about 15-20 to go along with our group of 15-20.

Personal Experience:
Jordan Huffman-Plover-Woodlands Jr. High - jordan@woodlandschurch.org
Comments:
I have taken two trips to Tijuana and Matamoros, Mexico. They have both been very successful. AIM has it together, gives a good, broad range of missions experiences, is priced equitably and the trips are about the right length.

Personal Experience:
Jeff Bergbrader-Fall Creek-Faith EFC - faithyouth@execpc.com
Comments:
I have been a participant and helped to staff trips for AIM since 2001. AIM has great training material and provides a wide variety of opportunities for any level of group. Their set-up and preparation allow you freedom to minister and stretch your group. Their focus is helping participants to develop ability to hear and discern God's voice.

AMOR Ministries
1664 Precision Park Lane
San Diego, CA 92173
1-619-662-1295
www.comebuildhope.com
www.amor.org/MissionTrips.html
Don't talk Jesus, live it. Better witness: a tract or a home? Strengthen the local church in Mexico by building hope within a family's life. More than 18,000 participants in 2001 built homes, churches, schools, and medical clinics with little or no building experience in Baja California, Ciudad Juarez, and Puerto Peiiasco, Mexico. A house means one more child will live and a family will stay together. W.W.J.D? He was a carpenter.

Personal Experience:
Paul Stevens-Waupaca-Faith Community Church - pstevens@fccwaupaca.org
Comments:
I've gone to Tijuana, Mexico through AMOR ministries and Young Life to build homes - I highly recommend AMOR. They have a great website that explains their ministry. You send them the money and they select a site, have the supplies delivered and provide blueprints, etc.

ARM Ministries
P O Box 141324
Dallas, TX 75214
214-577-5897
www.armmin.org
information@armmin.org
We are a denominationally unrelated faith based Christian organization helping individual churches and Christian organizations reproduce their ministries internationally.

Personal Experience:
Ryan Jingst-Markasan-Terrace Shores EFC - ryandjingst@hotmail.com
Comments:
In the past we went to Mexico with ARM Ministries from Dallas Texas. They are great people to work with! We worked and stayed in Hermosillo for one week. I would recommend ARM because they keep a good balance of ministry, to service projects, to fun time. It exposes students to the all- around mission experience!

BUMP (Bridging Urban Mission Project)
Dan Reeve
DReeve@efca.org
www.efca.org/urban/bump/index.html (to link to BUMP INFO Site.)
From the opening street carnival to the closing ceremony, making a difference in a multi-cultural, inner-city neighborhood is what BUMP is all about? Through four tracks: Kid's Track - game leading, story telling, teaching verses, crafts and befriending children: Sports ministry - three-on three basketball competition, skills clinic, and sharing devotionals: Prayer Walks - walking and praying: Service Projects - cleaning, sweeping, painting, or visiting: students will impact and be impacted.

Personal experiences:
Hans Gochenaur-Beaver Dam-Harvest EFC - pastorhans@harvestefc.com
Comments:
Through the process of trial and error I am still trying to find a good program and organization. We have done BUMP before and that was pretty good. Good enough that we can fall back on it in the future.

Personal Experience:
Steve Worsham-Kenosha Bible Church- pastorsteve@kenoshabible.org
Comments:
In the past we did BUMP through the Free Church (to Miami) and that worked well.

Personal Experience:
Darin & Deb Johnston-Richland Center-Grace CC - debjohnson@centurytel.net

Caribbean Lifetime Missions
1108 Airport Blvd., St. C
Pensacola, FL 32504
1-877-929-5818
www.clmissions.org
Caribbean Lifetime Missions is an indigenous mission hosting short-term mission teams to Jamaica, Barbados, and Cuba. Opportunities are available to do a VBS at orphanages, assist with the construction of the first Caribbean youth camp, minister in churches, and lead devotions in a public school. Call and find out why several pastors chose CLM as their host missions agency to the Caribbean. Trip is as low as $350 per person.

Personal experiences:
Don & Robin Williams-Montello-Marquette Comm. Church-dondew@maqs.net
Comments:
It was a big job choosing one for this year. I used the Ministry suggestions sent by the EFCA church student ministries department and looked through each one. That was a great source.

GMF (Global Missions Fellowship)
West office
16787 Bernardo Center Dr. Ste 7
San Diego, CA 92128-2506
www.gmf.org
1-866-Go2Grow (1-866-462-4769)
Global Missions Fellowship (GMF) strives to put a church within walking distance of every person in the world. Today, we serve churches in over 40 countries around the globe. To date, nearly 500,000 men and women have received Christ and over 3,500 new churches have been planted. One of GMF's single greatest strengths is our ability to provide laypeople with the opportunity to have fruitful ministry without spending years in seminary -- or in some cases -- even leaving their present occupations. As the global community gets smaller, a new breed of international missions has emerged: the Short-term Mission Trip. GMF's missionaries spend a majority of their time in the United States preparing for highly defined short-term mission trips. Domestically, they work with churches; individuals and families, helping them discover God's vision for the world and getting them ready for involvement in fulfilling His plan. Internationally, they work with church leaders to prepare them to receive a team. The main offices of Global Missions Fellowship are in Dallas, TX, and San Diego, CA. We also have small, satellite offices in Seattle and Atlanta.

Personal Experience:
Don Buege-Fond du Lac-South Shore EFC-dbuege@charter.net
Comments:
I'm transitioning right now to missions, to a ministry called Global Missions Fellowship. My hope is to be a resource...to encourage, cast vision, recruit, train, and take teams on short-term missions trips primarily focused on evangelism, discipleship, and church planting. One thing you could do is visit our website. Once you've worked your way around the site, feel free to give me a call; I'd love to come meet with you are show you how we can help mobilize the youth in our district for missions.

ReCreation Experiences
P.O. Box 6385
Ashville, NC 28816
828-253-414
880-254-1710
www.recreationexperience.com
ReCreation Experience is a 501 (c) (3) faith based not for profit program. Founded in 1990, the ministry grew out of a desire to provide quality mission experiences where both the people receiving the work as well as the people doing the work grow through the experience. The mission statement "Sharing Our Faith Through Home Repair Mission" reflects the commitment on the part of ReCreation Experiences and the teams who work with us to provide quality work and service.

Personal Experience:
Mike Collison-Appleton-Appleton Comm. Church-mcollison@applefreechurch.org
Comments:
For 13 years in a row (three churches) I have been taking students to ReCreation Experiences - Ashville, NC and having rich and rewarding times of serving the poor. We are going June 17-16 and while they do offer projects year round, their fully staffed focus time is summer.

UIM International (Urban Impact Ministries)
PO Box 336010
Greely, CO 80633-0601
1-970-330-7788
www.uim.org
Work in a variety of ways and venues but always along side EFCA urban pastors facilitating their mission in urban, poverty-stricken communities. These sites usually afford the opportunity to design your own experience. DReeve@efca.org

Personal Experience:
Daryl Brezee-Mount Horeb-New Hope - dbreeze@newhopeefc.org
Comments:
I have gone to New Orleans several times. It is a great cross-peaking, multi-faceted ministry in a great location.

World Servants
7130 Portland Ave.
Richfield, MN 55423
1-612-866-0010
1-800-881-2170
www.worldservants.org
Email: info@worldservants.org
Since 1986 we have facilitated short-term mission trips for over 30,000 participants and trained thousands of teams for cross-cultural ministry. World Servants is a worldwide, multi-cultural organization serving as an agent of change by developing people as servants and leaders. People are being challenged and developed through dynamic mission trips that have long-term impact both on the volunteer participants and the local communities, while assisting these communities to become self-sustaining and interdependent. A mission experience with World Servants is all about training, service, transformation and ultimately, living differently when you return home!

Personal Experience:
Pat Hanson-Manitowoc-Faith EFC - fefcyouthpastor@lakefield.net
Comments:
I have worked with World Servants and I recommend them highly because of their preparation for cross-cultural ministry and the fact that they work at the local level throughout the year so there is continuity in the ministry--it's not just a hit and run.

YWAM (Youth With A Mission)
PO Box 268
Rockford, MN 55373
1-763-477-6777
www.ywam.com
Looking for a life-changing, cutting-edge mission experience? We are passionate about knowing God and making Him known. Our experienced staff will serve you by providing an easy way to participate in short-term outreaches. We provide food, housing, on-site transportation, training, host staff, sound systems, outreach supplies, and much more. All you need to do is join us!

Personal Experience:
Dan Houtsinger-Oregon-Hillcrest Bible Church - dan@oregonstudent.org
Comments:
I will say that my preference is still Youth With a Mission (YWAM) for a couple of reasons. 1. Economics. They provide a great service to the church for not a lot of money. We live in a wealthy area of the state, but people are still conscious of spending a ton of cash. 2. Training. YWAM does their training on site for their 10-day summer trips. I thought this was an invaluable time to bond with students and meet new friends in preparation for the trip. 3. Worship. The base we were at in Ensenada placed a high priority on worship and Preparing kids hearts to serve. I thought this was a good way to help them get over the culture shock and get ready to serve.

YouthWorks! Inc.
3530 E. 28th St.
Minneapolis, MN 55406
1-800-968-8504
www.youthworks.com
Get your youth excited about following Jesus! Cross boundaries or race and culture to show them the gospel in action! Since 1994, over 62,000 youth and leaders have encountered Jesus through affordable YouthWorks! Mission trips. In the summer of 2005, we will feature 82 sites across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, with costs starting less than $200 per person. YouthWorks! Will take care of details, freeing you to walk alongside your teens. YouthWorks! Has been known to provide excellent trips for junior high students as well as for high school. Call us to find out how we can serve together.

Personal Experience:
Greg Lund-Frederic-Frederic EFC - greg@fredericefc.org
Comments:
I think there are many good options for mission's trips. I was especially impressed with the wide range of trips put on by YOUTHWORKS. Their prices were very reasonable, too.