Mission Trips Archives - CULTURELink, Inc.

Expect the Unexpected: | Emergencies and Short-Term Trips

These are all true stories experienced by CULTURELink-trained teams: A team member ministering in Eastern Europe falls two floors from scaffolding at their work site, breaking an ankle. Several members of a team in Southeast Asia experience severe food poisoning the night before the team is to commence in-country service to more than one hundred nationals. A salmonella infection manifests…

CULTURELink, Inc.May 10, 2024

Mission Trips Team Building Training

Cultural Research Ideas

Cultural research is a vital part of your pre-field training. Even if your team plans detailed and meaningful activities, a lack of cultural understanding and sensitivity can severely diminish your team’s impact. In our training seminars, we explain what it means to be cross-cultural and detail how to incorporate cultural research into your team training. If you feel intimidated by…

CULTURELink, Inc.January 12, 2018

Mission Trips Partnerships & Projects Planning

The Value of a Vision Trip

Different organizations may use different terms—vision trip, scout team, preview, or exploratory trip—but all are essentially the same thing. A vision trip is commissioned or scout team sent for a threefold purpose, to: Make observations about the people (both ministry partners and nationals) and place of the potential trip. Participate in practical activities to better understand how and why things…

CULTURELink, Inc.November 2, 2015