Witness Trip: A New Mission Trip for Groups

Resonate Global Mission, the mission agency of the Christian Reformed Church, has a new type of mission trip that will equip churches and other groups to live missionally in their own context back home. 

It’s called a Witness Trip, a short-term mission trip that sends small groups to a country or context different from their own to visit Resonate missionaries and ministry partners, local churches, and other ministries. 

“Witness Trips are designed to help you listen, learn, and reflect on your own life in a way that will change the way you practice mission in your own setting,” said Amy Schenkel, who leads Resonate’s Congregational Gospel Witness initiative of equipping believers to share the gospel locally.

“In some mission trips,” she added, “people go to try to fix something in the place where they visit. With Witness Trips, we first and foremost are going to learn from people who are experienced with putting mission into practice and the goal is to bring change back into the participant's home setting.”

Witness Trips are perfect missions trips for youth groups, church groups, or other ministry groups who want to live into God’s call to live and share the gospel in their own community. 

Throughout the week, your team will work through the Witness Trip guide adapted from the original Witness: Equipped to Share the Good News to help you process your experiences visiting various ministries, communities, and significant cultural and historical sites. When your team returns home, you’ll lead your congregation through the original Witness curriculum to equip your congregation to share the gospel in your own neighborhood. 

Resonate’s Volunteer Ministries Team will work with groups to help customize the destination and itinerary to fit each group’s needs, interests, passions, and skills. It’s possible that groups could visit any number of Resonate’s missionaries, church planters, campus ministries, and other ministry leaders—the mission agency supports more than 140 missionaries in more than 40 countries throughout the world as well as more than 60 church plants and more than 30 campus ministries in Canada and the United States.
 

• Give your church, youth group, or ministry an opportunity to connect more deeply with a ministry in another cultural context or country.
• Learn from believers about evangelism in a context that is different from your own.
• Receive coaching that will equip members of your congregation for leadership in mission at home and around the world.
• Mobilize your church to reach out to your neighbors and make a difference in your community.

Learn more or start planning your Witness Trip today: www.resonateglobalmission.org/witnesstrip