The following Mission Trips are being offered in 2012 through several of our partnering ministires:
Belize (The Belize Project)
January 21-28: Starting several micro enterprises, pizza and crafts, teaching craft-making, story writing, and deciding on a computer lab
February 27-March 14: Restore Ministries starting several Journey to Freedom groups, Vandy students putting in an irrigation system, meeting with officials on establishing a national drug court system
June 1-10: Fishing, teachers working in schools, women’s conference, repairing church, teaching a church Sunday School curriculum
October 27-November 10: Repairing a safe house
These trips are for anyone who wants to contribute their gifts and talents. Costs include an airline ticket and $100 per night.
Uganda (HEAL Ministries)
Team #1 - June 6 - June 22
Team #2 - June 23 - July 7
Team #3 - July 17 - July 31
All three teams will be working with abandoned women and children in the villages and in orphanages. The cost of each trip is $3,500 and includes the $2,000 airfare, food, hotel, visa, travel, driver and translator, team leader and safari. For an application and to get more information, visit HEAL Ministries online and click on the calendar page.
Ukraine
February 2012: Business conference with New Life Church and the SOBOR Association of Evangelical Churches in Ukraine. To be held in Kiev, Ukraine. Purpose is to show how a successful organization can have a strong business plan and heart for missions working together
March 15-25: Christian Morals and Ethics conferences in two cities in Ukraine. The purpose is to motivate and encourage public school teachers to teach Christian Morals and Ethics in their classrooms. Teachers from the USA lecture from a research paper that they prepare on this subject and lead master classes in practical applications.
April 25-May 6: Journey to Freedom Conferences in two cities in Ukraine. The purpose of this trip is to train and motivate facilitators and pastors in the ministry of Journey to Freedom Ukraine. And also to encourage the staff and volunteers who serve this ministry. MDI needs people who have gone through Restore Ministries Journey to Freedom small groups to serve on this team.
Sept 2012: Tatarstan along with a team from New Life Church in Kiev, Ukraine to encourage and strengthen pastors in the underground and house churches. We will also serve alongside a national led evangelism outreach in the towns. We are taking this team to support a vision of supporting the underground and house churches in Muslim countries.
All trips cost between $3,500-4,000 depending on airfare.
Youth Trips
Pleasant Grove, Alabama
Led by Josh Floyd and Alice Fleet
Estimated Cost: $300 Dates: June 24-30
Student Openings: 20 Students (rising 7th through 10th)
In April 2011, dozens of tornadoes ripped through the homes and lives of our neighbors in the State of Alabama. The devastation was drastic and the rebuilding effort and clean-up effort continues long after the media coverage has ended. For the second year in a row, our youth will be teaming up with Pleasant Grove Presbyterian Church in Pleasant Grove, AL, to aid in various clean-up and restoration efforts and run a VBS for children during the mornings.
This trip offers students an opportunity to interact with believers in a different context, connect with everyone on the team after serving alongside one another for a week, and experience God in a new and refreshing way.
Contact Alice Fleet at or 301-3668 for more information regarding this trip.
Jackson, Mississippi
Led by Wade Holmes and Kelly Davis
Estimated Cost: $600 Dates: June 24-30
Student Openings: 20 Students (rising 11th through 12th)
This will be our youth department's eleventh straight summer to serve the Neighborhood Christian Center in Jackson, MS. This ministry is an after-school program in the inner-city and offers students tutoring, games and the opportunity to hear the Gospel. They lead worship for a Salama-type ministry in the morning and spend afternoons serving the Neighborhood Christian Cetner and the surrounding community through work projects. They also make relationships where they can share their faith and meet many needs of the students and families. Contact Kelly Davis at for more information.
Uganda
Led by Ryan Doyle and Janie Omer
Estiamted Cost: $3,500 - $4,000 Estimated Dates: June 20 - July 1
For rising high school juniors through college seniors
Join us as we journey to the cradle of civilization and seek to be the hands and feet of Jesus to our brothers and sisters in Uganda. Students will go to Masindi, Uganda where they will work with the children at Family Spirit Children's Home, an orphanage and school in a very poor part of the town of Masindi. The kids' ages range from 5-15 (but mostly younger kids) and they have very little, except the joy of the Lord. CPC youth will go to love on and play with the children, make and build relationships, take food and clothing, and offer hope in the name of Jesus. If you are looking to be stretched in your comfort, transformed in your world view, and used mightily in the Kingdom of God, then join this team in Uganda. Contact Jamie Omer at for more information regarding this trip.