TEAM OPENINGS & MISSION OPPORTUNITIES

Below is the most up-to-date information our office has regarding current team openings and various mission opportunities, however we cannot guarantee that all opportunities are still available. Please contact the team leader for the latest information. 

These opportunities are listed in alphabetical order by country.

To list your own team for a mission opportunity, send an email with details to gray_miller@umvim.org.

Be sure to visit Discover…Mission to learn more about mission journeys for young adults!

Alabama

Summer 2025, Alabama Rural Ministry [ARM]

ARM is seeking teams for the Summer of 2025! This is a great project for youth and young adult teams, and those who have limited mission experience. Visit arm-al.org for more info!

cuba

October 3-13th, 2025, led by Mike Burgamy, experienced Cuba team leader

Join Mike Burgamy, experienced team leader to Cuba for this eye-opening mission journey. Travelling Oct 3-13th, 2025, with a $350 deposit, total cost approximately $2200. More information found on the application, which you can download by clicking here.

Nov 14-22, 2025 led by Jim Smith, UMVIM SC Conference Coordinator

The cost will be $2400.00 per person all inclusive.  Please reply to smithjames@comporium.net or call 864 979 3612. A $300.00 dollar non returnable deposit is due by May 15, 2025. A passport good through May 2026 is required.

Honduras

Friends of Barnabus, Sept 20-27th 2025

Friends of Barnabus, a longtime UMVIM project and partner, have openings for medical and non-medical volunteers for several of our July 12th – 19th and September 20th-27th teams. The cost to join the team is $2250, which includes airfare, accommodations, meals, and security.  Many of our team members fundraise to cover this travel cost and to support the team’s medicine and supplies fundraising goal.
Friends of Barnabas has been serving remote mountain communities in central Honduras since 2000.  Each month ‘FoB’ sends a team of medical and non-medical volunteers to provide medical, dental and vision clinics.  In addition, the teams provide education, vitamins, anti-parasite medications and development screenings for children.

Each mission journey will be held from Saturday to Saturday.  The teams fly to Honduras early Saturday morning and take a 1.5-hour drive to our facilities in Peña Blanca.  On Sunday, the team will have a chance to visit either a waterfall or botanical gardens in the morning, and the afternoon will be spent preparing for the week ahead.  Monday through Friday are clinic days where teams will travel to remote communities (typically a 1–2-hour drive) and hold medical, dental and vision clinics.  On a typical day, teams will see 150-200 patients. The following Saturday the team will return home. 

For more information, please visit www.fobf.org/MMT,  call 804-744-5624 or email Katie@fobf.org

Kenya

July 14-29, 2025

The Indiana Conference of the United Methodist Church is planning an Education, Pastors training VIM journey to Kisii/Nyamira UMC District in the Western part of Kenya. This will be a team of 12-15 members with education, pastors training, healthcare background with a passion of serving with humility and experiential learning that will enrich the spiritual formation of our churches in Indiana.

The envisioned team’s itinerary includes visiting the Capital city of Nairobi (3 days), experiencing a scenic 5 hours drive down into the Scenic Great Rift Valley, to Masai Mara which is Kenya’s premier game reserve. We depart from Maasai Mara for the Mission destination called Kisii and Nyamira counties for 5 days. Here we will be training and learning with 60 United Methodist pastors and lay preachers while fellowshipping, learning from parents and teachers at the Greenhill Amani School.

We depart Western Kenya for Nairobi to Mombasa in the Coast of Kenya (Indian Ocean) to relax before we start a long journey back to United States.

Cost: $5300 per person and is all-inclusive (roundtrip airfare from Indiana, lodging, meals, local air and ground, transportation in country, and 12 days inclusive of 3 days/2nights at the Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya).

Team Leader: Saneta Maiko

Liberia

July 15-28, 2025

You are invited to build relationships with the Harrisburg, Liberia community, including the Farmer to Farmer team in Harrisburg. Be immersed in the tropical climate and the Independence Day celebrations, visit the capital, and work on furthering development of ideas for the farm and school. Attend Sunday service at Saint John UMC and meet with The Girls of Promise.

Helpful skills: education, farming, basic first aid, devotions leader/musician

Cost: $3000, plus Passport, Visa, Travel Clinic and immunizations
Team Leader: Sally Ruth

Nicaragua

El Ayudante, November 1-8, 2025

El Ayudante, a project serving alongside Nicaraguan communities, is seeking 4 more persons for a journey scheduled Nov 1 – 8, 2025, with a deadline of July 1. Cost is $1700 per person, including airfare. This journey to Leon, Nicaragua will work alongside with the Nicaraguan people to make an impact on the lives of children. Check out the eanicaragua.com to learn more about this amazing ministry.   You can also contact Kim at kim@eanicaragua.com for additional information.

Sager Brown Depot, baldwin, Louisiana

Sept 7-12, 2025

Mission: BUILD at Sager Brown! Join us for a week of construction focused ministry! Community & campus-based construction
projects and depot work available.

Visit at facebook.com/UmcorSagerBrown to sign up!

Cost is $290 meals & housing included $50 nonrefundable deposit required. Contact Sager Brown at 337-923-6238 with questions.

Wisconsin - lake lucerne CAMP

September 21-26, 2025

Join us for a week of fellowship, fun and hard work!  Plan to arrive and settle into your room in one of the cabins, then join us for dessert and our first evening together in Ridgewood, where we will share morning and evening devotions each day.  Meals will be eaten in the Lodge starting with Monday breakfast and concluding with breakfast on Friday.  Tasks may range from cleaning out cabins (washing windows, sweeping floors) to bringing in work at the waterfront to cutting down trees and brush to roof repairs and laying new sidewalk! We will do what the staff asks us to do -- and more!  Fall or spring, Lucerne is a place to appreciate God’s creation.
Note – Be sure to pack sleeping gear and towels.
Cost: $200.00 – includes lodging, meals, work supplies and donation to camp.
Deadline: September 1
Deposit: $40.00 with the registration form.  
Registrar: Gail Burgess