With 80 students and adults serving in Mexico over spring break, communicating what God is doing each day with our church is part of our call to missions.

In the post picture, one group of students ends the first day of their house build by circling up with the couple who will occupy the house.  It’s our chance to pray for them and demonstrate Christ’s love for them through our service.

More than 190 people signed up to follow this trip as MissionSupportrs.  These are family and friends from all over the world.  Each day, we post news — a short blog — along with photos from the day, video and more.

Each time we post, MissionMakr.com notifies the 190+ by email and/or SMS Text Message that news has been posted and they should log in to check it out.

We also allow those who are reading what we’re posting to comment.  Here’s a what that looks like:

It’s a great way for people to join us on our trip each and every day.  People are kept up-to-date with what’s happening on the mission field and become part of what we’re doing.

One parent commented, “I love this site … seeing the pictures that are posted each day brings me to tears.”  Wow, that’s incredible … and there’s not distractions.  People who follow trips are notified when there’s something to read, watch, or listen to.  They log in securely and can focus solely on your mission trip.

For us, we’re building 3 homes, serving in Soup Kitchens, orphanages, doing outreach and evangelism and more!

If your church does mission trips, and you want to involve your whole church in what God is doing, MissionMakr.com is a great communication and impact tool to unite and engage the body of Christ for what He is doing all over the world.

Your first mission trip is 100% FREE!  Check it out and sign up today at missionmakr.com.

If you’re looking to take missions to a whole new level in your church, read on!

One of our newest customers, Wendy, from Hunsinger Lane Baptist Church (HLBC) in Louisville, Kentucky, is doing just that!

As she put it, “I stepped into some big shoes when there was a change in our missions leadership.”

Wendy said, “I wanted to take missions to a whole new level in our church and it included strategies to communicate more effectively with our people about what God was doing … and MissionMakr was exactly what I envisioned for our communication strategy.”

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Our newest piece of propaganda is a classic!  It communicates what we do, gives links to customer trips in MissionMakr so you can see a few examples of “live” trips, and it gives you a chance to hear what our customers say about us.

Download it … check it out and pass it on!

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It’s been almost two years since I officially launched MissionMakr — and another two years before that of research, development and programming, so anytime I get the opportunity to present how MissionMakr.com can help churches communicate and engage their people with short-term missions, I’m pretty excited.

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Check out what John, Missions Coordinator had to say about MissionMakr.com.

“Here’s a praise for the value of MissionMakr.com …

I had a missionary coming to the US from Cambodia and needing a car for 6 weeks.  I sent an message to all MissionSupportrs that had followed our trip to Cambodia last year (160 people).

Within 24hrs I had a car donated for the entire 6 weeks.

How effortless and what a great way to reach people who are interested in the ministry … giving them an opportunity once again to support missions.

Thanks again for a GREAT PRODUCT!!!”

So, how did John get a car donated for 6-weeks for a missionary from Cambodia in 24 hours?

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Getting the word out about your next short-term mission trip can be a challenge … unless you’re using MissionMakr.com.

If you use a combination of flyers, emails, bulletin announcements, Facebook and blog posts or text blurbs with “call so and so for more information” on your church’s website, you quickly discover how long all this takes and how ineffective, in many cases, this kind of promotion really is.

MissionMakr.com changes all that …

Using drag-and-drop widgets created just for communicating mission trips, we make getting the word out about your next short-term trip fast, easy and fun!

Shelter Cove Community Church in Modesto, California just launched their annual High School Mission Trip to YWAM’s  Ensenada, Mexico base, and they’re ready to involve their entire 2,000+ member church with the message of missions!

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This post was written by Rhonda whose two girls went on a mission trip to Africa during the summer of 2011.  She talks about being a MissionSupportr and being able to follow the trip to Africa via MissionMakr.com.  

“Lord equip my children, teach them to serve You and may they love You with all of their hearts, minds and souls. Amen.”

This is one of the prayers I have prayed for my children since before they were born. This past year two of my daughters felt led to join our youth group on a missions trip to Kisumu, Kenya.

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With MissionMakr.com, it’s easy to shoot, edit, and post video from the field using the Video Widget!

Here’s a video posted to Shelter Cove Community Church’s trip to Mexico 2011 on MissionMakr.com. They had over 250 people following this trip everyday! As soon as it was posted, 250 received an email/SMS inviting them to log into GO! for this trip and watch the video!

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The best way to communicate short-term missions in the local church combined with the ability to donate to a mission trip right from within MissionMakr … what do you think of that?

We think that’s pretty cool … a Donation Widget, and it’s right around the corner.

Communication and Donation?  All in one place?  Yep …

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Traditionally, short term missions is just that … short.  For all the work you do to plan, prepare, to get people involved and engaged and to raise the prayer and financial support necessary, your mission to (insert your location here), is often here and gone before you know it.

Yet there are so many opportunities along the way to engage people — the very people who ultimately catch a vision for and support missions within your church all year long.

Sitting in a Missions Network meeting recently in Central California, one man (with white hair and some wrinkles which equals wisdom) said, “Short term missions is for the whole church … the whole church benefits when a team heads for the field … but we’ve got to find ways to engage them.”

After a short term mission is over, rare is the church that’s still actively talking about and finding ways to connect people to the summer mission to (where ever you went) 2 weeks — let alone 2 months — after you return.

Everyone is looking for a return on their investment these days, and the church is no exception.  When it comes ROI (Return on Investment) — the kind that matters to God — for short term missions, MissionMakr is the communication and impact tool you need to pull it all together from beginning to end (and then some).

When do short term missions have long term impact? When …
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