Planned 2019 Short-Term Mission Trips:
- January 21 – February 5: Women’s Ministry and Children’s Ministry at our Children’s Home
- August 11 – 18: Various Ministry Activities (more customizable to your group)
- November 3 – 10: Medical Clinics and Pastor’s Conference with Teaching Truth Int’l
By joining one of these pre-set trips you will be able to partner with John and other Life Light Board Members as they take you behind the scenes to our various ministries in India. These are the only scheduled dates that John and other Board Members will be traveling to India in 2019, so don’t miss out on the opportunity to accompany them on a life-changing trip. If these dates do not work in your schedule, no problem! Life Light will still assist on any short-term trips you desire to take. We want you to go, even if you cannot accompany Life Light staff! Whether you want to go on these dates or different ones, let us know by filling out the form below.
What To Expect
Read MoreOn our short-term mission trips you will work closely with our staff and volunteers in India! Here, you will be able to meet the physical and spiritual needs of many unreached people. At Life Light, we believe in short-term missions for long-term impact. Our philosophy is based on books such as When Helping Hurts and Toxic Charity, which both outline some ways to help poor communities without negatively impacting them. In essence, we want to give the poor a hand up and not a hand out. We know that our resources will one day run out and we do not want the people we serve to be so dependent upon our aid that we are hurting them in the long run by only giving them hand outs. By giving them a hand up in society and helping them to use their God-given abilities to one day take care of themselves they will eventually see how precious and valuable they are as creations of God.
Our typical trip consists of seven ministry days and three sight-seeing days. The first seven days of the trip consist of things like working with lepers and orphans, training indigenous pastors, spending time with the children at our school, teaching English and computer skills, performing maintenance work, and being involved in medical missions and business as mission. The last three days of the trip are where you will have the opportunity to learn about various aspects of Indian culture and religion. We will be traveling to Delhi, Agraha, and Jaipur where we will visit the Taj Mahal, Jama Mosque, Akshardham Temple, Ajanta and Ellora (Buddhist and Jain caves), and various forts in order to better understand the Indian worldview.
There are also upcoming opportunities to travel to India to participate or help teach our three-day pastor seminars or women’s empowerment seminars.
The durations of our short-term mission trips are flexible and can be catered to your individual or group’s desires. These trips can last anywhere from one week to months or more. Want to work with the orphans, but only want to stay for five days? We can arrange that! You tell us your schedule and your interests and we will plan your visit to fit your needs and use your talents.
All groups/individuals who plan to go on one of these trips will be provided a handbook to adequately prepare them before they leave. For more information, please contact us.