CLOSED South Asia 2025

Harris Creek, join us as we work alongside a long-term missionary team for a week in a city in South Asia home to millions and millions of people to take the gospel to the ends of the earth and be a part of evangelizing among the unreached!

ABOUT THE TRIP
This trip is for anyone wanting to apply their faith, share the gospel, and learn how to make disciples in another culture. On this trip, our team will partner alongside a long term missionary team for one week to join them in evangelizing to unreached people groups. Unreached people groups are entire groups of people who have likely never heard about Jesus before. They have no churches to visit, no Bibles to purchase, and no believers to learn from. It is normal for someone of an unreached people group to live their entire life and never hear the good news of the gospel. We want to change that.

Come be a part of the work God is doing among the greatest concentration of lostness in the world. This trip includes hands-on experience working alongside local ministry partners and utilizing Biblical missionary methods to engage the lost in hard to reach places. Join us as we strive to see the Great Commission fulfilled in South Asia.

There are three main focusses on this trip: perceive, pray, and participate.

Perceive: The first objective of our team is to perceive the surrounding culture we will be entering into. We will take time to learn about the primary religion of the region, observe cultural tendencies and norms of the various people groups in the region, and be equipped on the strategy that the long-term missionary team deploys to reach the unreached for the region they are planted in.

Pray: The second objective of our team is to pray. We will do lot's of praying as we walk through the city and/or villages, referred to as "prayer-walking," praying for God's Kingdom to come and will be done throughout the region and for Jesus to rule and reign in the hearts of all the people. The phrase "prayer is the greater work" is often the mantra for missionary teams across the world working to reach the unreached, so we will join the prayers of the saints because salvation is the work of God alone.

Participate: The third objective of our team is to participate in the work of making disciples and planting churches. We will effort to get into conversations with locals to get to know them and their culture, and have the opportunity to share with them the hope of the world - the gospel! We will either find english-speakers in the area, or utilize indigenous believers that work with the missionary team who can translate conversations for us. We will also have the chance to meet with local believers and churches to encourage and equip them for the work of ministry.

ABOUT SOUTH ASIA
South Asia consists of the countries, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. From the heights of the mighty Himalayas of Nepal to the crystal-clear waters of the Maldives, South Asia is both awe-inspiring and heart-wrenching. It is home to some of the most beautiful places you will ever see, but is the largest concentration of lostness on the planet. South Asia is the birthplace of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism, and is home to more Muslims than any other part of the world just by sheer concentration of people alone.

South Asia's population is just under 2 billion people -- that is about 25% of the entire world's population! The sad reality about South Asia though, is that there are only an estimated 22 million evangelical believers -- 1.54% of the entire population. South Asia is home to 2,000 unreached people groups (ethnolinguistic populations that are less than 2% Christian). To put this in perspective, every week about 230,000 people in South Asia die without ever hearing about Jesus (all statistics above from 2020 report from the IMB).

There is great need for gospel-workers to come alongside indigenous believers and churches for the spread of the gospel across South Asia. Our team plans to do just that. Please note, we do not list the exact country we will be traveling to in order to protect the foreign and local gospel-workers we will be partnering alongside. If you would like to know the exact country we will be traveling to, please reach out to the trip leader.
 
TRIP COST (PER PERSON)
Total Projected Cost: $3,000 (+/- $200)

TRIP GRIT LEVEL
4/5 - due to the intensity of South Asian culture and the culture shock that can result from it, this trip requires a decent amount of personal grit to thrive as an individual.

DEADLINE TO APPLY
December 31st, 2024