- Our Purpose
Your One-Stop Missions Travel Resource!
MissionEquip.com was established to provide resources to missionaries and short-term missions teams traveling worldwide. Through our partnerships with a variety of organizations, we provide solutions for missionaries all over the globe ranging from a wide variety of insurance products for missionaries to a helpful travel checklist to make mission trip planning easier. To find the resources you need, start by exploring the Prepare, Insure and Go tabs.
Communication Made Easy!
Through our affiliations with several cutting-edge communications companies, we offer you free and low-cost resources to help you stay in touch with family and friends while you are overseas. Explore the Connect tab to find these resources.
Share Your Story!
Through our network of 228 country-specific blogs and 228 country-specific wikis, we have established a venue where long-term missionaries, short-term missions teams, missions agencies, missions pastors, and believers with a heart for world missions can gather and discuss God's plan and desires for the peoples of the world, encourage one another, share stories and prayer requests, etc.
Your participation is as easy as 1 .... 2 .... 3!
Register or login to your account and then choose the Share tab.
Find your country or people group by drilling down through the Destinations menus in the right-hand sidebar.
Submit your story or prayer request.
Are you a long-term missionary? A missions pastor or leader in your local church? A member of a short-term missions team? A staff member at a missions agency? Or just a believer with a heart for missions?
Whatever your role in God's global endeavor, this is the place for you!
Click on one of the four tabs (Prepare, Go, Connect, Share) to view our featured tools for each major section of our site.
Overseas Protection
24/7 worldwide assistance for your trips.
Music
Download music for your mission trip.
Worldwide Internet Access
Access the internet worldwide as you travel.
Travel Documents
Purchase visas and passports online.
Books
Purchase mission-centered books.
Travel Medical Insurance
Research and purchase insurance for your trips.
Trip Planning Module
Book airfare, hotels, and logistics online for your trip!
Web Conferencing:
WebEx
GoToMeeting
Overseas Calling:
Pingo
Gorilla Mobile
Net2Phone
Voice Over Internet (VOIP):
Lingo
Packet 8
Sun Rocket
Missions Blogs
Share your story in our 228 country-specific blogs
Syndication
If you already have a blog, let us widen your exposure by syndicating your articles on MissionEquip
Missions Wikis
Contribute factual information in our 228 wikis
Missions Pastors Forum
If you are a missions pastor, participate in our private forum just for you (approval required)
- What Others Are Saying
“I just want to thank you for putting together this great collection of useful sites. I had just finished booking a multi-continent trip for later this month, and spent lots of time at lots of web sites searching and comparing prices and itineraries. Your link to Kayak barely beat my final price, and did it within seconds, rather than hours! I’d also been reminding myself to check on visa needs, weather outlook, travel advisories, etc. and your site easily led me to all the information I needed! People wondering if they can pull off that self-funded, or small-church driven short term trip now have a most helpful and comprehensive resource to be sure and cover all their bases. I tried to think of something you could add — I guess I pride myself in helping others identify areas of possible improvement — but you guys have done it all! Stupendous! I’m speechless, other than praise! I’ll be spreading the news.”
- Doug
Connect: Facilitating ongoing communication between the worldwide missions community, churches, families, and friends by leveraging the latest technologies for enhancing training, outreach, and fellowship
Once abroad, how can you stay in touch with your friends, family, and church body? MissionEquip provides links to free and low-cost web conferencing, Voice over IP phone service, international long distance telephone services, instant messaging, and more! We encourage you to load these websites in a new window or a new tab so that you can keep our list of links handy while you explore the resources available to you. If you have a suggestion for further resources, please don't hesitate to contact us. We would be more than happy to help in any way we can!
Resources To Help The Missions Community Connect With Supporters!
Conferencing
WebEx
Use online meetings to meet with anyone, anytime and resolve open issues in real-time with secure, reliable technology. Hold large scalable on-line events such as all-hands meetings and webinars with interactive and dynamic multimedia presentations. Reach more people with online training and elearning when you offer on-demand and live online classrooms. All through the power of WebEx!
GoToMeeting
Save time and money with this easy-to-use online meeting solution: GoToMeeting. You can present, demonstrate and meet all you want — for one low flat fee. Try it free and discover how you can use Web conferencing to meet and collaborate across the globe, provide online training, and much more!
PC2PC/PC2Phone
Google Talk
Google Talk allows you to get in touch with an instant message, email, or a high quality voice call. Includes fast file transfer.
Skype
Skype is a little piece of software that lets you talk over the Internet to anyone, anywhere in the world for free.
Yahoo! Messenger
Yahoo! Messenger takes instant messaging to a new level. Use it to connect in real-time and communicate how you want, when you want, with whom you want. In addition to sending text-based instant messages, you also get free worldwide PC-to-PC calling, freedom to call (and receive calls from) friends using regular and mobile phones, drag-and-drop photo sharing with real-time discussions, and much more!
MediaRing Talk
MediaRing Talk offers free PC-to-PC, high-quality VoIP calls to anywhere in the world! Call any phone number inexpensively with PC-to-Phone service. Host your conference call (up to 5 participants) on demand. Chat with your contact or collaborate with up to 5 users using MediaRing Talk instant messaging.
Overseas Calling
Pingo
Pingo is a pre-paid calling card service that offers unbelievable rates on international and domestic long distance.
Gorilla Mobile
Forget restrictions or the high international rates you've been paying your current mobile service provider to call overseas. Only Gorilla Mobile makes saving up to 85% on calls to over 175 countries on your mobile phone so easy. You don't even have to change your current mobile service provider.
Net2Phone
Save on long distance calls to over 250 countries with your choice of two prepaid calling cards. Each calling card offers low international and U.S. rates from any phone, including your cell phone.
VOIP (voice over internet)
Lingo
Lingo's international VoIP offers a world of savings — and features! Whether you're calling England, Tokyo, Brazil, or within the United States, you'll use your existing phone and Internet connection for international calling, and you'll pay a great low price!
Packet 8
Packet8 is an affordable and easy-to-use broadband telephone and videophone service. Designed with both residential and business customers in mind, Packet8 allows anyone with broadband (high-speed) Internet access to use their regular phone to make low-cost phone calls around the world.
SunRocket
SunRocket's internet phone service includes unlimited domestic calling (U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico) for under $17 a month, free international minutes (up to 100 minutes per month), free enhanced emergency 911 service, over 12 built-in calling features, free voicemail, call waiting, caller ID, and more!
1. Throughout our site, we use the term "country" to refer to several different types of geographic regions — countries, territories, special administrative regions, etc. This usage is merely for the sake of convenience. No political statement or position is intended by such usage.
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