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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Drum roll, please…

We’ve just added three new awesome colors for your phases! The new members are Earth, Sky and Desert. Now you can give some of your phases a cool earthy look.

In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, inside every phase you can click on the Do Stuff button and change the color of your phase. You can select from our current colorful library of 15 colors. So in case you don’t really care for the default colors of Launch, GearUP, GO! and Tell, you can easily change them to fit your trip better and make it that much more awesome!

Give some of these colors a try and if you have suggestions for any cool color, let us know. Have fun!

Okay, the date is firm and the place is selected.  You’re ready to begin “getting the word out” about your trip and signing people up.

Now what? How do you engage your church and impact those who may want to go on your trip?

Regardless of the size of your church, your staff or your budget, there are  4 things you can do to get your trip off the ground in a hurry.

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Launch

Are you still relying on bulletin inserts, PowerPoint®, platform announcements, video messages and small group meetings to engage people in missions?  MissionMakr’s Launch phase allows you to create custom pages and add content to promote missions, communicate your trip and sign people up.

What if you could put your mission trip opportunity online for the whole church to see in less than an hour, and it had cool features like custom pages, video, photos, PDFs for download, custom colors and branded for your church or organization?

Edit and Add Widget Mode for Launch

Widgets and “drag and drop” feature allow you to add content quickly.

If you already have a paper based mission packet in Microsoft Word®, simply add a page, let’s call it “Purpose”, add the Rich Text Editor and copy and paste from your document into the Rich Text Editor, add a graphic or photo and you’re done!

The Widget list is impressive!

Select a widget, drag it around on the page, add content and you're done!

• Text Widget
• Sign Up Widget
• Image Widget
• Video Widget
• File Widget – upload a file (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .pdf)
• Verse of the Day Widget
• Photo Gallery Widget
• Mission Supporter Invite Widget
• Devotions Widget
• Blog Widget
• Language Widget
• See Who’s Going Widget

Launch is a public phase of MisisonMakr — anyone with an internet connection can see it.

Be sure to read our other posts on how people find your trip and changing theme colors.