After a blistering morning shoveling garbage in Nicaragua, Passporter Madison Miller was ready to throw away her soiled gloves and take a long shower. Instead, she jumped on the back of a garbage truck with her teammates and rode to the dump, where she met people literally digging in and living amongst trash just to survive. Morning came and like usual on mission trips, things didn’t go as planned. We didn’t have anything to do around the community so we were assigned work on the compound. We were told to grab shovels and head out to the garbage pile on the project. When...

After 48 hours of running an orphanage of 30+ children in the Philippines, Passporter Michaela Finn was exhausted. Nerves fried, every muscle in her body aching from running after children, all she wanted was a moment to sit alone, still before God. Instead, she found herself surrounded by three children who reached out and touched her heart in a way she will never forget. My team and a few World Race teams were left in charge of an orphanage of 30ish children in the Philippines for two days while their staff went to a retreat. Oh and they don’t have school. These 30 children have...

For the typical college student, summer is a time to sit back and relax. Classes are over for the semester, usually concluding the end of a school year. Time to put in a few more hours at work and spend the days finding adventure, vacationing with family or friends, sleeping in, and staying up late. Cameron Shelton’s summer was very different than the typical college student’s. Instead of sleeping in, he woke early to roosters and cattle announcing the break of day. Instead of a blazing sun and endless blue skies, he lived through another winter, this one in the Southern...

When our trip participants go out on the field, they see and experience some horrifying things taking place abroad. For our summer Passport team in Guatemala, they witnessed the evils of human trafficking first hand. Sarah DeLoach shares how they still found hope in the midst of the horror. ———- Coming into the last week of our time in Guatemala, our team as a whole prayed the Lord would lead us into more than we could ever imagine and give us what we needed to finish strong. Wednesday morning rolled around and we began with the task of evangelizing to the prostitutes...