Adventures in Missions

When We Lay Down the Tools: The Heart Behind Disaster Relief Missions

More Than Just Construction: A Mission of Relationships When a team arrives in a community for disaster relief missions, the needs can feel overwhelming. Homes need to be repaired. Debris needs to be cleared. Walls need to be painted, doors hung, and floors rebuilt. There is always another project waiting. But during an Adventures Relief trip to Black Mountain, North Carolina, a team from Rio Revolution discovered that sometimes the most important thing they could do was put down their tools. In January 2025, the team was serving families whose lives and homes had been deeply impacted by...

Let’s Build a Pirate Ship!

Finding Joy in the Simple Things During our mission trips to Jamaica, one of our favorite things to watch in George’s Plain has been the local kids. When we first arrived, we watched them find so much joy in the simplest things. Sticks became toys. They made kites out of whatever they could find. Then we brought out bubbles, coloring supplies and beads, and their minds exploded! Something so simple to us was completely new and exciting to them. Before long, 30+ kids were regularly showing up at our base just to play. George’s Plain is a vibrant community of about 2,500 people, but there...

God Rebuilt Something In Her

“Before this short-term mission trip, I knew who God was, but I don’t think I fully understood what it meant to live out my faith every day.“ At the end of the week, one of our volunteers shared those words as she reflected on everything God had done in her life. Serving Beyond Borders: Missions in Jamaica She had come to Jamaica expecting to help rebuild homes and serve families. Instead, somewhere between the roofing projects, shared meals, worship, and conversations with homeowners, God began rebuilding something in her. Growing up, church wasn’t a consistent part...

God Rebuilt Something In Her

God Was Already There: One of the Most Important Lessons You’ll Learn on a Mission Trip

God Was Already There: The Most Important Lessons You’ll Learn on a Mission Trip Discovering God’s Presence on the Field One of the biggest misconceptions about short-term mission trips is the idea that we are bringing God to a place where He isn’t already present. It’s an understandable thought. We pack our bags, board a plane, and travel hundreds – or sometimes thousands – of miles to serve communities around the world. We prepare ourselves to share the Gospel, pray with people, and meet tangible needs. But somewhere along the journey, many participants...

God Was Already There: One of the Most Important Lessons You’ll Learn on a Mission Trip

A Bible Full of Names

Some Bibles are filled with notes. This one was filled with names. While serving on a disaster relief mission with Adventures Relief in Black Mountain, our team visited a homeowner named Betty whose house had been damaged by Hurricane Helene. As she welcomed us inside, she reached for a well-worn Bible and began turning the pages. Her Bible was filled with signatures from volunteers who had helped restore her home. One by one, they had signed their names. Not because anyone asked them to. Because they wanted her to remember she wasn’t alone. As one volunteer held that Bible, something...

How a Mission Trip Can Grow Your Faith and Give You the Courage to Share It

Most people don’t sign up for a short-term mission trip because they feel completely prepared or spiritually ‘qualified.’ If anything, it’s often the opposite. They wonder whether they’ll know what to say if someone asks about their faith. They worry they’ll feel awkward praying for a stranger or stepping into unfamiliar situations. They hope God can use them, but quietly wonder if someone else would do a better job. The imposter syndrome is real here. Finding Courage in the Step of Obedience One participant on a recent Adventures in Missions trip...

She Started Rebuilding Before We Arrived

When Hurricane Melissa tore through western Jamaica, Kayon watched the roof over her family’s home disappear—leaving them in urgent need of disaster relief. Like many homeowners, she couldn’t afford to replace it. So she did what she could. In the days after the storm, Kayon walked through the debris collecting damaged sheets of zinc that had been scattered across the community. She salvaged what she could find and began rebuilding her roof with her own hands. It wasn’t perfect, and it certainly wasn’t enough to fully protect her home, but it was all she had. By the...

She Started Rebuilding Before We Arrived

What Big Foot Taught us About Generosity

His name is Big Foot. Like many nicknames in Jamaica, everyone seems to know him by it. Big Foot works as a garbage collector. Day after day, he collects things other people no longer want. But where most people see trash, Big Foot sees possibility. When he invited us to visit his home, he proudly showed us around. Much of his house had once been discarded by someone else. Materials that had been thrown away, forgotten, or abandoned had been salvaged, repurposed, and given a second life. What others considered useless had become shelter. What others overlooked had become home. Then we...

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When We Lay Down the Tools: The Heart Behind Disaster Relief Missions

Let’s Build a Pirate Ship!

God Rebuilt Something In Her

God Rebuilt Something In Her

God Was Already There: One of the Most Important Lessons You’ll Learn on a Mission Trip

God Was Already There: One of the Most Important Lessons You’ll Learn on a Mission Trip

A Bible Full of Names

How a Mission Trip Can Grow Your Faith and Give You the Courage to Share It

She Started Rebuilding Before We Arrived

She Started Rebuilding Before We Arrived

What Big Foot Taught us About Generosity

What Big Foot Taught us About Generosity

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