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!

Belize

Jan 31-Feb 8, 2025

Join Pastor Pat and Kim from Billings First UMC for a UMVIM—United Methodist Volunteers in Mission trip to Belize in February.

We will be working in Corozal, the most northern area of Belize (close to the Mexico border). It is our prayer that the Belize mission trip gives you the opportunity to interact with immigrants from neighboring countries—providing a truly unique experience as you serve alongside an eclectic mix of people from Latin American, Afro-Caribbean, and Mayan cultures.

Our projects will be construction-oriented with a focus on churches and schools, as well as serving the community, sharing children’s ministry and teaching valuable life skills.  We will have the opportunity to work alongside community members and show God's love through serving with them.

The dates of the trip are January 31- February-8.  The cost of the trip is approximately $3,000 per person.  This includes airfare, lodging, most meals, project costs, ground transportation and other in-country expenses.

Please start praying now to discern if God is calling you to be a part of this mission team.  This is a multi-generational, church-wide mission trip.  Applicants must be at least junior high age (completed 6th grade).  A parent must accompany junior high students.

We hope you will join us to learn how we can support our brothers and sisters in Christ in Belize!  Questions:  contact Kim at 406-927-2487 or kimberlylewis1968@gmail.com

Is there any additional information you need from me?  Thanks for your help!

Honduras

Carolina Honduras Health Foundation, Feb 7-15 2025

Medical mission team of 14 to Carolina Honduras Health Foundation’s well established clinic in Limon, Honduras is seeking two pharmacists OR pharmacist + pharmacy tech to assist with prescriptions and treatment therapies for a week of clinic. This beautiful and remote location serves an extended region of nearby villages. Approximate cost is $1800, includes travel and all living expenses for the week. Dates, including travel, are  February 7-15, 2025. We hope to firm up the team by mid-September.

Contact Team Leader Terri Morgan: tlynmorgan@icloud.com (757) 902-2967
OR
Co-Team Leader/Pharmacist Mark Painter: Mark.Painter@VandaliaHealth.org (304) 533-5121) for more information.

Alabama Honduras Medical Education Network [AHMEN], May 31-June 7, 2025

The Alabama Honduras Medical Education Network’s Río de Agua Viva team invites you to join our May 31-June 7 teaching and learning team to the Honduran coastal communities of Roatan and Nueva Armenia.  We will be teaching first aid, clean water, lifeguarding, and community advocacy.  Team members will also receive team leadership training to lead their own educational brigades in the future.  The cost of the team is $1,200 + airfare.  Anyone who reserves their spot by Dec 16 by donating $100 receives an automatic $100 off team tuition.  (College students receive $200 off!)  To learn more, visit ahmen.org or @AHMENinHonduras on social media.  You may also check out my blog at michaelsmissionsmusings.blogspot.com.

Friends of Barnabas Foundation, Feb 15-22, 2025

Medical Mission Team has openings for one medical person, one non-medical person, and one translator.  Team members must be at 17 years old.  The team will be providing medical/dental/eye care in the mountains of central Honduras.  The cost is $2,250 per person which includes, lodging, meals, and insurance.  God may be calling you to this very mission.  The experience is both rewarding and life changing.

For more information or to volunteer, please contact co-leader Dr. Carlos Liceaga, P.E. at 757-768-2223 or Carlos.Liceaga@gmail.com.

Illinois - Midwest Mission

March 2-7, 2025

March 16-21, 2025

Participants in this mission journey will have the opportunity to pack the various kits (Personal Dignity, Home Care, etc) that Midwest Mission sends around the world.  Other tasks include repairing bicycles and sewing machines, helping with the mailings, building school desks, unloading supplies and various other tasks. Midwest Mission will accommodate a wide variety of ability levels and provides information about the work they do during the mandatory breaks!    
 
We will stay in the dorm on the Midwest Mission grounds with a team cook. You will need to provide your transportation to and from the facility; plan to arrive no earlier than 4 pm on Sunday afternoon.
         
Cost: $270 per person. Make checks payable to WAC/VIM.

Registration for March 2-7: Gail Burgess

Registration for March 16-21: Mike & Bobbi Couillard

Deadline: January 15

Kenya

July 16-31, 2025

This team is helping build a school in Nyamira & Kisii and training pastors and lay preachers.

Team Leader: Saneta Maiko

Mozambique

May 16-June 1, 2025

The Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church is planning a medical VIM trip to Chicuque Rural Hospital in the Inhambane Province of Mozambique May 16-June 1, 2025. The ideal 12 member team will include several medical professionals prepared to present current evidence-based practice on at least one of the following topics:

> 1. Complications of Arterial Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus;
> 2. High blood pressure during pregnancy and its complications
> 3. Complications of acute and chronic renal failure;
> 4. Respiratory failure and liver diseases;
> 5. Resuscitation of newborns and adults;
> 6. Obstetric hemorrhage;
> 7. Cervical cancer.

The envisioned team’s itinerary includes sponsorship of a 2-day regional medical symposium followed by several days of ‘hands-on’ inpatient instruction at Chicuque Rural Hospital. Non-medical volunteers are also sought to handle symposium logistics as well as involvement in local church ongoing ministries.

Cost for the trip: $4000 per person and is all-inclusive (roundtrip airfare from Washington DC, lodging, meals, medical supplies, symposium costs, transportation in country, and 3 day/2 night stop at Kruger National Park in South Africa).

Interested persons should contact Nancy Forrest, BSN, MPH, IBCLC , team leader, for more information:

 Nancy Forrest mrpk15@aol.com ,540-409-6555

Tennessee

April 6-12, 2025

In December 2023 a tornado touched down in Clarksville, Tennessee and the surrounding area.
The Tennessee-Western Kentucky (TWK) United Methodist Conference is currently working with survivors to get a list of projects ready. Repairs will vary from minor to skilled labor. We will know more after the first of the year.
A VIM group from Wisconsin visited the area in October and completed a variety of projects. They stayed at a church that will welcome us again in April. The church has sufficient space and cots, and has showers. TWK Disaster Response will supply all building materials.
This will be a drive to work camp. You are responsible for your own transportation.

Cost: $300 includes lodging and meals. Checks should be made payable to St. Luke UMC/VIM.

Registration deadline: March 15, 2025

Registrar/Co-leaders – Terri & Mike DeMaster, W5194 Garton Road, Plymouth, WI 53073;

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

Wisconsin - pine lake CAMP

May 11-16, 2025

Join our annual pilgrimage to Pine Lake as we get the camp cleaned up and open for the busy summer season. We stay in the Rader Retreat Center where each room has a double and a single bed with private bathroom. Bedding and towels are provided.
Projects will include installing docks and piers, getting water craft ready, cleaning cabins and washing windows. There will probably be wood cutting, splitting, stacking, chipping and general grounds clean-up. Remember, always be flexible about whatever projects the staff has on the priority list.
This is a drive-to camp. You are repsonsible for your own transporatation.

Cost: $250.00 for the week or $50.00 per day. You are encouraged to come for a day or two even if you can't stay for the whole week.
Registration deadline: April 25, 2025 with a deposit of $50.00. Checks should be made payable to WAC/VIM Camp.
Registrar: Wes Hurlburt, 430 Third Ave. N., Onalaska, WI 54650