Connecting your mission trip to your church...

The greatest challenge in any mission trip is applying what you learned once you return home. This can be divided into two challenges, keeping the groups excited when the week’s over and exciting the people that weren’t involved. ReConstruct is committed to helping groups meet these challenges. As over 700 students and adults prepare for our camp this summer, we have been hastily preparing for them to go home.

Here’s what I’m talking about. Throughout the summer as church groups arrive for their week with ReConstruct we will be going live with a webpage for each individual church. On this web page, which will be updated daily while your group is here, there will be photos of your group and a place for parents, friends, and others to leave messages that we will forward on to your group. We will provide the website address before you leave for ReConstruct so you can publicize it in your church. We hope that this will be a way to keep the people not on the trip involved in what’s going on and get your church excited about what’s going on throughout the week.

To keep everyone excited about serving others, we will be sharing information to help plan a fall project for your group. These projects could include working for a half day in a food pantry or soup kitchen or doing work for some widows in your church, just something to serve others and serve God. Our vision is that on one Saturday all of the workers involved with ReConstruct this summer will be involved in a day of service in their home town. We are already gathering information on several service options and we’re looking forward to sharing them with you.

How can you be involved right now? Prayer, we need people to pray for these groups as they get ready to descend on Nashville and Paris, Tenn. Pray that God will use them to do great things while they are here, and that their lives will be changed as they go back home.

How else can we help groups stay excited about serving God? Email your ideas here.