Overseas Experience
Vision Trips and Short-term Mission Trips offer an opportunity for our donors to see firsthand the difference your partnership with Visionledd is having in the lives of orphans and widows in the communities we serve in sub-Saharan Africa.
Vision Trips
Vision Trips give pastors, churches and business leaders the opportunity to see what God is doing in Africa in the midst of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. These trips enable participants to meet pastors and community and ministry leaders on the front-lines of the battle against HIV/AIDS. Participants will also have the opportunity to learn about projects that are changing the lives of entire communities and discover the ways in which you, your church or your business can impact the lives of thousands of people.
The focus of these trips is learning rather than serving. Given the cultural, historical and religious complexities of Africa, this approach will lay a strong foundation with our African colleagues while preparing us to discern God's will about the possibility of engagement.
See if God would lead you, your church or your business to walk alongside African churches as they build faith, generate hope and minister in communities devastated by HIV/AIDS.
Trip Dates
- Malawi - October 28 - November 6, 2010
For more information and an application form contact the Visionledd office in Canada or the United States
Short-term Mission Trips
Short-Term Mission Trips provide the opportunity for groups and individuals to work on the front-lines of care - experiencing the work of HIV/AIDS relief, community support and spiritual counseling. In offering hands-on training and support to communities across sub-Saharan Africa you are helping to transform entire communities, teaching sustainability and caring for the most basic needs. Whether you are helping to build a community school or offering home-based care to families in need, you are acting as the hands and feet of Jesus in a nation desperate for love, compassion and a healing touch.
Each trip and team is somewhat different depending on the needs in Africa and the skills, abilities and interests of team members.
Trip Dates Departing from Canada:
- Zambia - October 14 - November 01, 2010
Cost:
- Approximately $4,500.00CAD(departing from Toronto, Canada)
Trip Dates Departing from USA:
- Malawi - July 13-27, 2010
- Burkina Faso - November 20-30, 2010
Cost:
- Approximately $3,500.00 USD(departing from major cities in USA)
Trip fees include airfare, medical insurance, food, housing, transportation and ministry supplies in destination countries. The cost of passports, immunization, over-weight baggage and all personal expenses are extra. The final cost of the trip will be determined when plane tickets are purchased (usually 45-60 days before the trip). The cost of each trip is tax-deductible.
Each trip may include:
- Assisting Home-Based Care Workers visiting the sick, orphans or widows
- Packing and delivering food and medicine
- Sharing bible stories with widows
- Helping feed children in villages
- Working on construction projects
- Creating memory books for families affected by HIV/AIDS
- Training widows and Home-Based Care Workers in HIV/AIDS prevention and basic health education
- Some trips include a 3 day / 2 night Safari at an additional cost
For more information please email info@wowmission.com (Canada) or Karl@visionledd.com (USA).
To download an application form, click here.
"You can't put a value on short term missions. Going and seeing these children running around in ripped clothing - they have nothing. They don't know when they'll eat. As a woman you look at your children and grandchildren. You are motivated, you have to do something. I'm trying to get women together to go on these trips. If we all did our part this wouldn't be happening in Africa or anywhere in the world."Sharon Roberts, WOW Mission Trip Participant
