Short Term Mission Blog

Leadership

A Lesson in Leadership

A couple of years ago, I was leading a team to Haiti for Convoy of Hope (a Missouri-based ministry we often partner with). This was a youth group from Michigan, with mostly teenagers, and a few adult chaperones. As is normal in Haiti, we were to work at an orphanage for the week, doing construction work in the hot sun.…
Vicki Brawner
April 17, 2019
Andes Mountains Peru Tales From the Field

Peru – Part I

The Andes Mountains jut out of the ground straight up into the sky, making one feel small and insignificant. They are so vast it is almost more than the eyes can behold. Our bus crawled slowly along the winding, steep roads, our mouths agape at the astounding beauty. And as I looked closer, I realized those were not rocks and…
Vicki Brawner
February 22, 2019
Understanding the depths of poverty Tales From the Field

Poverty – Part II

Poverty Is a Spiritual Issue Recently, I wrote a blog about visiting our brothers and sisters who reside in a city dump in the Philippines, while serving with Convoy of Hope. This is where I began to discover that poverty is a spiritual issue. The poverty of soul is so much more prevalent than the physical poverty that my five…
Vicki Brawner
February 15, 2019
Tales From the Field

Poverty – Part I

Poverty Is a Spiritual Issue In Motion Ministries partners with Convoy of Hope, leading some of their Field Teams on the short-term mission field. I had the privilege of traveling with Convoy of Hope to an island in the Philippines to visit a community that resides in the city dump. It was there I first heard the statement: Poverty is…
Vicki Brawner
February 8, 2019
Featured Destinations

Montana

Short-term Mission Trip to Montana In Motion Ministries and You Are Worthy Ministries partnered together in the summer of 2017 to bring a women’s retreat to the ladies of Morning Star Baptist Church in Lame Deer, Montana. The Native women of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe welcomed our team with open arms and open hearts. God moved with such impact on…
Vicki Brawner
January 7, 2019