This site exists to help people quickly connect with short-term mission trips and opportunities that fit their gifts and calling.
Our Goals:
- To become a central place for people to discover, learn about, and engage with short-term mission trips and other Christ-centered service opportunities.
- To provide an effective way for mission organizations to get the word out about their mission opportunities.
Our hope and prayer has always been that the Lord would use MissionGuide.global to mobilize thousands of workers to the harvest, fulfilling the Great Commission.
- Start your mission trip search here today (Opportunities available from 1 week to 3 years)
- Learn how to begin a relationship with Christ (The most important choice)
- Sign up your organization to post trips on MissionGuide (Spread the Word)
Our Story:
DELTA Ministries sent out its first mission team in 1979 and was the short-term mission vehicle for the Conservative Baptist Association of Oregon. Over the next 16 years, DELTA would send out hundreds of teams and eventually come under the sponsorship of WorldVenture, the national missions organization associated with Conservative Baptist Churches.
In 1996, DELTA became an independent, interdenominational ministry mobilizing over 100 teams and 1000 team members per year at its peak. At the same time, DELTA’s CEO, Brian Heerwagen, joined the national steering committee for the writing of The Seven Standards and the establishment of The MissionExcellence, formerly Standards of Excellence.
In October 2003, the US MissionExcellence, formerly Standards of Excellence was formally launched. In time, the “US” was removed, and the organization was known just as MissionExcellence, formerly Standards of Excellence or “SOE” for short.
From the beginning, MissionExcellence was the authoritative voice for all things short-term mission and was effective at exposing weakness by presenting excellence. In 2017, DELTA and MissionExcellence merged — MissionExcellence defined excellence and DELTA had the staff and resources to help members become excellent.
Through these years, the staff and leadership have worked hand-in-hand with other partners who were also called to promoting excellence in missions. This natural progression has now collectively created a family of ministries that provide the comprehensive programs and services needed by mission-focused people and organizations…
MissionConnexion was established in 2001 by missions pastor Bill MacLeod in Portland and has become a premier mission mobilizing conference and focus event organizer. Reaching over 5,000 individuals and hundreds of churches and organizations through numerous annual events, MissionConnexion has now become the primary outreach and equipping ministry of MissionWorks.
MissionGuide was formerly ShortTermMissions.com and was launched by Mission Data International in December of 2000 as a quality collaborative resource for people to discover, learn about and engage with short-term mission trips and other Christ-centered service opportunities. It was also an effective way for mission organizations to get the word out about their mission opportunities. In 2020, it joined with MissionExcellence and is now the MissionWorks website tool that helps people enlist in mission trips that fit their gifts and calling.
MissionLinked is the newest member of the MissionWorks family of ministries and is currently under development. By offering a comprehensive suite of tools, it allows the mission or project organizer, participant, sender and host to stay informed as well as interact and engage with supporters. Launching in early 2023, MissionLinked will be the ultimate missions fundraising tool in the MissionWorks suite of ministries.
MissionArmor is the new name for MissionExcellence’s MissionIQ, issued through MissionSafe, and providing travel medical insurance that protects and covers individuals and mission teams in the event of an illness or injury when traveling outside of your country of residence by providing key medical benefits in case of an emergency. MissionArmor ensures MissionWorks mission participants, so they are safe and sound while on mission.
MissionExcellence rounds out our family of ministries and is the new name for Standards o Excellence. Coming full circle, MissionWorks is the collaborative expression of MissionExcellence and now continues to be the leader in helping churches, organizations and schools to excel in missions.
So, if you’re just starting out to expand your mission, looking for a short-term trip or finetuning your organization’s mission, you’re in the right place.
That’s because at MissionWorks, our goal is to see more people like you doing more in mission and doing it better. Contact us to find out more.
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