For Parents
The Details
Specifics regarding the "Never the Same" 2012 Missions trip to Panama:
As a parent, you want your teen to grow spiritually, connect with other Christian teens and have an impact on the world around them; all in a safe, supervised environment you can trust.
Let us provide your teen with a valuable missions experience unlike any other!
Our History
Brio
Magazine founding editor, Susie Shellenberger, began taking students on
mission trips in 1996 with the first trip to Bolivia. We’ve taken
several thousand teens to Brazil, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama,
Peru & Guatemala. The 2012 trip to Panama promises to be another life-changing
experience! It’s our prayer that God will work in the lives of our
teens to produce eternal changes and even call some of them into full-time
ministry. We use Big World Ventures®, a nonprofit Christian organization
that specializes in planning short-term missions trips for teens and churches,
to custom-design our trips per our specifications.
What are those specifications?
- We take a medical staff with us.
- Every evening we have our own service; teens are not even given an option to visit the city without adult supervision. We never use public transportation but charter our own buses.
- Teens are allowed to bring cell phones and call home.
- Shower and toilet facilities are available.
- We recruit qualified Christian adults to fill the sponsor roles in addition to our staff and volunteers.
- We all stay together in one large hotel that will be a safe and comfortable environment.
- We also take a professional counseling staff with us just in case a teen needs to talk about any issues that surface during the trip.
Big World Ventures also handles the details of food and lodging, sight-seeing, international flight reservations, recruiting Christian interpreters and church representatives to follow up on new converts, reserving buses for ministry travel once in the country, scheduling ministry events for each day and arranging a shopping excursion. You can learn more about Big World Ventures.
Download a special message to parents which includes every detail and a "sample day" in the life of a teen Missionary!
All photos courtesy of Ron Nickel