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Short-Term Trips that Educate & Empower

Maybe you’ve heard of those mission trips where you fly half-way around the world to paint a church while the locals stand around and watch—you don’t want that.


It’s true that Christian mission trips can be paternalistic and disempowering if they’re not done right.* Church partners choose ENLACE because we are committed to development principles that empower churches to transform their communities. It’s a better experience for them, and for you.

 

*For more on the topic read the classic When Helping Hurts by our colleagues Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett

Experience True Purpose

Mission trip day-labor will not solve multidimensional poverty, but we believe that God can. In fact, God is at work through the Church right now offering food to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothing the naked, visiting prisoners, healing the sick, restoring relationships, and making all things new.

Your role on an ENLACE Short-Term trip is one of encouragement, fellowship, and learning. You’ll work alongside new friends on whatever development project churches would be doing anyway, but your day labor is not the point. The point is to encourage your fellow Christians, make new friends, and learn.

You’ll come home a more fully-formed disciple of Christ with new stories to tell, and new opportunities to contribute to God’s kingdom.

The Impact Here at Home

All our Church Partners tell us that partnering with ENLACE to expand their missional reach generates energy, excitement, involvement, action, and joy here at home. That’s just what happens as we join what God’s Holy Spirit is doing. ENLACE exists to link churches with each other and with expertise and training to engage in that work more fully. That’s why our Church partners tend to stick with us for years, or even decades.

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TRIP TESTIMONIALS

Partnering with ENLACE has been a chance to engage our employees in our deeper mission and purpose as a company. By educating them on holistic and strategic programs and sending them on service trips to see the beauty firsthand, we have seen God move in the hearts and lives of our employees and their families.
Bobby ParksChief Ministry Officer, John Houston Homes Family of Companies
ENLACE are experts at facilitating experiences for our congregation. They are intentional about building into our teams and leaders while helping folks engage in meaningful work and relationships. We trust them 100% with our serving teams.
Kyle HealyCompassion and Justice Pastor, Willow Creek Community Church
When we work with ENLACE, I know that not only the local churches and families we serve will be treated with the utmost respect and care, but that our teams will learn to see communities in new ways, seeing not just their needs, but also the strengths and assets they bring to their community.
Julie DavisWillow Crystal Lake
When you come back from a trip to El Salvador you have a better understanding of mission work, made lifelong friends, and have a deeper appreciation of your life.
Riani MartinCrossway Christian Church, Nashua, NH
God is using ENLACE in powerful ways and we get to be proximate to what God is doing through them every time we send a team or vision trip to join in their ongoing work.
Kyle HealyCompassion and Justice Pastor, Willow Creek Community Church
The way ENLACE partners with communities, listens to their needs, and joins their efforts has shaped what we want to do missionally here. Once you’ve met the team that makes it happen you see it. You feel it. You know genuine heart when you find it and we’ve certainly found that with ENLACE.
Mark Briley Pastor, Broadway Christian Church
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A Participant’s Guide for ENLACE Vision Trips & Short-Term Serving Trips

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Long-Term Impact on a Short-Term Trip

A Participant’s Guide for ENLACE Vision Trips & Short-Term Serving Trips.

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