- 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
“Mission Equip has it all! I love having on one website the resources we need to connect, train and send people from our church into the world.”
- Jim Holst, Outreach Pastor
Bayside Church, Granite Bay, CA
Go: Meeting travel and related needs for the worldwide missions community
An overseas trip can be overwhelming. So much to do, think about, and plan! MissionEquip offers a free travel planning module to help coordinate all of your activities. We also provide low-cost overseas medical insurance to protect you while you're on your trip. We encourage you to load the websites below 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 travel-planning resources, please don't hesitate to contact us. We would be more than happy to help in any way we can!
Resources For Missions Travelers!
Travel Medical Insurance
Research and purchase low-cost travel medical insurance for your short-term missions trips, long-term missionary stays, long-term missionary travel, and more!
Trip Planning Module
Kayak, often called the Google of travel, helps people find travel products from travel suppliers all over the world and then gives searchers a choice of where to book: from a supplier direct (airline, hotelier), from an online travel agency or consolidator. In fact, Kayak displays more choices of available itinerary/price combinations than any other travel site.
Travel Information and Alerts
The United States Department of State provides helpful travel tips and travel alerts for over 200 countries.
Currency Converter
The XE.com Universal Currency Converter is the world's most popular currency tool and allows you to perform interactive foreign exchange (FX, or forex) rate calculations, using live, up-to-the-minute currency rates.
Weather
Weather.com features current conditions and forecasts for over 77,000 locations worldwide, along with local and regional radars. Many maps and other features are also at one's fingertips, along with weather-related news, educational material, a weather glossary, a storm encyclopedia, and seasonal features.
Emergency Contact Card
Fill out our emergency contact form, print it, and take it with you on your trip — important contact information will be on your person in case of emergency.
Travel Checklist
A helpful checklist to make sure you've thought of everything in preparation for your missions trip or travel.
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