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Water is required and you need to drink plenty. Plan to consume 2-3 liters a day. Generally refrain from drinking directly from faucets, or puddles on the ground. If you are planning on being away from a clean water source for any amount of time, it's always best to refill your personal bottle with purified, clean water.
“A mission trip is just a vacation that someone else pays for.” Lots of mission trip critics say this, and they’re right. Sometimes. At first glance mission trips and vacations do look pretty similar. They both involve taking time off from school or work, traveling to a new place, and taking lots of pictures.
However, if you’re really going on a mission trip, there will always be one huge difference. The difference is your purpose.
However, if you're really going on a mission trip, there will always be one huge difference.
The difference is your purpose.
The purpose of a vacation is to maximize your own personal enjoyment, relaxation, and pleasure. It's a trip that's all about you. It's self-centered.
On the other hand, the purpose of a mission trip is to maximize the name of Jesus by serving others. It's a trip that's all about others. It's selfless.
Can a mission trip turn into a vacation? Yes, if you're not being intentional.
What are your motives and reasons for going? To snap some cool pictures, get to know a cute guy or girl, or travel to an exotic place? If this is where your motives start and end, you're not honestly on a mission trip; you're more on a vacation because you're only focusing on yourself (self-centered).
Since we're all naturally self-centered, we need to be intentional about having selfless motives. It's not bad or wrong to take pictures, have fun with your teammates, or enjoy traveling. However, you don't want one of those to be your primary motivations during your trip. Motives turn into actions. So, if taking pictures is your primary motive, it'll be your primary action all throughout your mission trip.
On the other hand, if you're intentional about having motives like serving others, digging wells, or sharing God's love with children, then these will be the motives that turn into actions on your mission trip.
Which way is your trip leaning? The mission trip side or the vacation side? The selfless side or the self-centered side?
No trip is perfect, and we all struggle with self-centered motives. However, if we're striving to be better reflections of Jesus, we need to be moving in a selfless direction. Jesus was rarely focused on getting great selfies during His trips.
Keep Reading: The difference between a mission trip and a vacation
We have released the schedule of this year’s Mission Trips and we want you to join us!
If this is your first time to join Connect Global on a mission trip, we welcome you. You will enjoy your time serving alongside some very dedicated and hardworking individuals.
You can Find our Trip Schedule and Mission Trip Application below.
Please invite your friends as well.
Connect Global will be hosting a Missions Conference on AUGUST 20 AND 21 in San Juan Pueblo Honduras
We are very excited to be putting together a special time of practical training and spiritual encouragement for the Church leaders of Honduras.
Join in on this very important conversation about Racialized Crisis and what our Response should be as leaders in the church. We invited highly esteemed Author and Pastor, Dr Dorrell Briscoe to help us navigate this topic for our latest episode of Global Neighborhood on The Connection Podcast.
Thousands of Hondurans have been drastically affected by the Coronavirus pandemic, economic downturn, violence, and a devastating Hurricane Season.
Many people have lost their jobs, many homes were swept away in the flooding along with their sense of security.
Our aim at Connect Global is to restore hope those who have lost so much. To provide not only immediate assistance but also long term support in the way of sustainable food, and resources.
In February 2021 the Connect Global team was able to start the school year off by assuming the financial and logistical responsibilities of a school, Las Huellas Del Maestro, which as of March 1st, 2021 has 172 students as a part of expanding our ongoing commitment to education and care for children.
El equipo de Connect Global ha estado conectado y asociado con el pastor Nahun Flores desde 2004. Él y su familia han servido muy bien a su comunidad de Honduras y al pueblo garífuna a lo largo de los años. Lo apoyamos mientras continúa su ministerio desde Cusuna hasta Trujillo y todos los puntos intermedios.
Hurricane Eta and Iota brought devastating rains, mudslides to Honduras. Thousands of people across Honduras were in the direct path of the Hurricanes and have lost everything. Connect Global is committed to help families rebuild their lives.
Hurricane Eta and Iota brought devastating rains, mudslides to Honduras. Thousands of people across Honduras were in the direct path of the Hurricanes and have lost everything.
Hurricane Eta brought devastating rains, mudslides to Honduras. Thousands of people across Honduras were in the direct path of Hurricane Eta and have lost everything. Now the country prepares for Hurricane Iota
Hurricane Eta brought devastating rains, mudslides to Honduras. Thousands of people across Honduras were in the direct path of Hurricane Eta and have lost everything. Many more have been affected by its lasting impacts such as damaged roads, flooding, and fallen bridges.
They are without food, water, & shelter.
We love serving the people God has called us to as a family and we count it a great honor.
Thank You to Travis, Gina, and Noah for making the World Race Team feel at Home in La Ceiba. We are looking forward to getting the team fully immersed, for the next 4 weeks, in the Projects Connect Global has been working on!
One of the places this World Race Team will visit is the Regional Hospital where we have plans to build a new Maternity Home for new and expectant Mothers.
Please stay tuned for more updates from these fun and selfless young missionaries and updates on the projects they are helping us advance this month.
Cardiac Transplantation: The replacement of a patient's diseased or injured heart with a healthy donor heart.
Think for a moment about the monumental process of removing a person's heart. Taking what may be the single most important organ in a person's body out because it is not functioning properly. Assessing the current level of damage as being so great that there is no other course of action but full removal.
Then think for a moment about the cost of the donor. One must die so that another person may live. The donor does not receive a new heart. Their heart is, however, healthy enough for the new recipient. The donor's gift in death becomes life for someone else.
I think this physical example is not unlike the emotional and spiritual journey of a mission trip. Someone gives of their life so that another may receive life or hope or food or clothes or comfort or ...
A few weeks ago Gina, Noah and I stood at the Hedman Alas bus station in La Ceiba, Honduras waiting for our heart recipients to arrive. A group of 6 young ladies whom we had never met, but already loved. Little did we know that our hearts would be extracted over the next month and placed in each one of them.
It was already dark, and still 85 degrees, by the time they arrived. Gretchen, Hannah, Ryan, Kate, Brittany and Amber came pouring out of the bus with another half dozen Americans. They were tired from a long day of travel and weighed down with their huge backpacks. We were their 11th country on their WorldRace. Their 11th host. Their 11th ministry stop. Just one more location on their journey home? Maybe we could be more.
A few greetings with our new family of strangers and we were off to get them settled into their sleeping quarters and then dinner. Over the next month we visited orphanages, hospitals, police stations, churches, schools and feeding centers. We laughed together. We cried together. We prayed for the sick and fed the hungry together. And in all of these activities and meals and conversations, our hearts were slowly excised. Piece by piece this cardiac transplantation took place.
We heard the stories of their visits to other countries. We heard their family histories back in the US. We got to know their brothers and sisters through pictures and tales of family Christmas and sorrow and joy. They hugged my wife. They played Uno with my son. They have our hearts.
And I'm forever grateful for it.
Cardiac Transplantation occurs when the patient's heart is too sick or injured to continue pumping. It's often times the last chance for the heart recipient. And the final gift of the heart donor. Each of us on this earth experience the impact of life. Our hearts grow. We receive love and betrayal. We experience joy and sorrow. Our hearts gain strength and sometimes, often times, our hearts get sick. Our hearts become bitter by betrayal. Our hearts become sour by sorrow. Our hearts become timid by trials. And we begin to die. We need a new heart.
In the book of Ezekial chapter 36, verse 26, God makes an incredible promise to us. He says, "I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh." God Himself describes the first heart transplant. He promises that He will not leave us in a sick and injured condition of cardiac arrest. But that He will become our ultimate heart donor and give us life.
As Gina, Noah and I poured out our own hearts into our team, I could feel the Spirit of God filling us with a new heart; filling us with His heart. I could feel His love for people growing inside of us. I could feel my own bitterness and sorrow and fear leaving as His grace and joy and boldness came flooding in. I could feel my heart of stone being removed and His heart of flesh was carefully sewn in and began pumping new life.
This supernatural cardiac transplantation is indeed a miracle. Yet it occurs through the very practical action of "Love Your Neighbor". It first requires the extraction; the emptying of self; the giving of your own heart. When we are empty, then we are ready to receive His new heart.
We met our team prepared to give to them. We were there to be the heart donors, and indeed we poured our hearts into them. But in so doing, we became the recipients. We became the patients getting the new heart of flesh. Thank you team #kylo for the month you gave us and thank you God for you have given me life.
Travis Moffitt
“In April of 2016, Connect Global hosted a team from the World Race in La Ceiba, Honduras as a part of our ongoing initiative, Connected Community. At Connect Global we are committed to fulfilling the Great Commission of Jesus to share the Gospel with the whole world through collaborative and sustainable efforts. You can join us in these efforts through financial partnership and/or trip participation. ”
Four years ago today Connect Global was created to bring sustainable solutions to people in need throughout the world. We set out to find friends with whom we could partner to deliver real solutions to real problems in a sustainable way.
Some of you have joined us. Some of you have come along the journey to visit foreign soil with us. Some of you have faithfully and financially sent us along the path. Many have found long lost friends they never knew they had; All while bringing sustainable solutions to those in greatest need.
These solutions have changed from place to place. Different problems require different solutions. Even while adapting our methods to the needs of each friend we visit, our priorities have never wavered.
There is one solution that we have found to fit every need. In fact I would personaly say that this is the most sustainable solution of all: The Good News of Jesus. Simply put, we are blessed to be a blessing. We have received grace, now we can freely give grace. We have received favor, now we can freely give favor. We have received life, now we can freely give life.
All that we have is because of the kindness of God through Jesus and we are freely asked to simply give it all away. Each person receiving this can simply pass it on. No other methodology is more simple, more duplicatable, more sustainable or more impactful.
Around the world as well as around the corner there are people just like you and me. People in need of sustainable solutions to the problems they face. People in need of life. People in need of grace. People in need of you and me. Our birthday wish at Connect Global is that these blessings of life and grace would simply be passed along.
To all who have joined us; we offer blessings. To all who have financially given to Connect Global along this journey, we are deeply moved and honored by your support and friendship.
You have blessed us beyond measure and there are countless lives that are better for it.
Please join us today in wishing Connect Global a happy fourth birthday!
-Travis Moffitt
Connect Global April Team in front of DINAF in La Ceiba Honduras
Connect Global has been introduced this year to Dirección Nacional de la Niñez y la Familia (DINAF) a community organization charged with the enforcement of the protection of children, adolescents, and families. They are the front line of child abuse, adoption, fostering, and family counseling. The local branch in La Ceiba has a school with the capacity of 90 and serves between 30 and 40 families a month though free counseling, light medical treatment, groceries, and daycare for working parents.
The school currently has around 30 students, and between 5 and 10 preschoolers.
Javier Mendoza, Mayor Carlos Aguilar, Director of Dinaf Rosa, and Travis Moffitt.
Rosa, the director, has been great contact and has been able to guide us as we jump in and help.
The Bathrooms at DINAF were unsanitary, hazardous, and in need of consistent running water.
In March we began the renovation of two bathrooms that were in very bad shape. The water was not running, the pipes were strewn across the room, and open drains caused not only a danger to little feet, but an overall health hazard to all.
We also noticed that the kids area was in need of new dining tables for the cafeteria, a new medical table for their nurses station, and several pieces of school furniture needed refurbishing.
The Connect Global team that arrived in April, was able to jump right into the renovations, and made a huge difference to the place. Sanders, Paint brushes and Mr Clean in Hand, the team made light work of the children's furniture, bathrooms, and medical area.
Our team, and network of churches, individuals and local businesses made several monetary and physical donations including Medical Supplies, School Supplies, a new Medical Exam Table, and NEW School lunch tables made by a local craftsman and business owner, Oscar Canales.
I am so proud of the team and their efforts. I am also grateful for the several local and international partners that came together to make the start of this partnership a success. Special Thanks to: Open Arms Church, Revival Temple, Joshua Nations, Oscar Canales, JIlma Molinero, CCI Church La Ceiba, Life Community Church, Dr. Oviedo, Smart Copy Honduras, and Luis and Juana.
The team was joined on one of the work days, by the Lady Lee Foundation of Honduras, and the Mayor of the City of La Ceiba, Carlos Aguilar, to complete the donations and gifts.
"[DINAF is] a new paradigm of child protection consisting of a decentralized governance with the participation of churches and NGOs engaged in the care of children" - Creación de DINAF para atender a la niñez y adolescencia -
Part of the Connect Global April Team riding through La Ceiba.
Thank You to all who volunteered, donated, and traveled to make April's trip a success.
We are truly grateful for your willingness to be a part of this mission.
Our team consisted of volunteers from 4 different states and several different churches and organizations. We received donations from dozens of individuals, businesses, churches, from both the US and Honduras.
Everyone who put their heart and soul into this week long venture can rest knowing that their efforts are a part of a growing network of Honduran and US partnerships all working together to improve situations here and around the city of La Ceiba Honduras.
Posted by Brooklynn Eccles on Tuesday, April 14, 2015
iOS: Research shows that light exposure is a major factor in your body's rhythms, so mathematicians have built an iPhone app called Entrain that cuts jet lag time and gets your body adjusted to a new time zone faster.
Developed by researchers at the University of Michigan, Entrain is a guide that takes user input to give you a schedule that promises to overcome jet lag faster. It doesn't use light sensors or any other automatic input, so it's important that the user submits data—it's not magic!
The science behind the app is that light is the primary diving input to the body's circadian rhythms, so if you feed Entrain your current light input schedule, it can figure out light stimulus that moves your body clock from one phase to another. Detailed math is available in a paper at PLOS:
Read the Full Article Here at LifeHacker
17 TIPS FOR SURVIVING A LONG FLIGHT IN COACH
'Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. ' Ephesians 6:10-12
Connect Global ha viajado a América Central y del Sur por más de 16 años. Estamos monitoreando constantemente los medios de comunicación tanto globales como regionales, así como la información a nivel del Departamento de Estado local y de los EE. UU. Sobre todos los temas que podrían ser de interés para nuestro personal, socios, miembros del equipo y aquellos a quienes servimos. Con ese fin, hemos estado observando y aprendiendo de cerca tanto como podemos sobre las preocupaciones más recientes sobre este novedoso Coronavirus, COVID-19.
Connect Global has traveled to Central and South America for over 16 years. We are constantly monitoring global as well as regional news outlets, as well as both US and local State Department level information on all issues that would be of concern to our staff, partners, team members, and those we serve. To that end, we have been closely watching and learning as much as we can about the most recent concerns about this novel Coronavirus, COVID-19.
At Connect Global we love taking both new and repeat team members on trips to Honduras and other locations.
We’ve compiled a list of Mission Trip Tips that will ensure starting off on a great foot for any upcoming adventure. This list is what we have decided over the years will make a foundation for a great trip, but please use your discretion as you read the list and make the best choice.
