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.

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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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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From Modesto to Kisumu, Kenya — 18 young people from Shelter Cove Community Church in Modesto left June 6, 2011 for what would no doubt be the trip of a lifetime.  And MissionMakr.com is there helping them tell their stories, show their video and photos and share the heart of the ministry they went to serve — Agape Children’s Ministry.

Here’s a look at their trip in real time …

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In their words – Shelter Cove Community Church from Robert Carpenter on Vimeo.

This past weekend, a team of 16 was commissioned in three services as they leave for Africa, October 2-16,2010.  They are headed to Kisumu, Kenya and the Agape Children’s Ministry.  While some team members put on a new roof, perform electrical repairs and do some painting, others will conduct a Vacation Bible School.  Together, they will visit the “street boys” — those living in unimaginable circumstances … many simply abandoned to the streets.  Their only peace? Huffing glue.  It numbs the pain and takes away their hunger.

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