- 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
Prepare: Equipping the worldwide missions community through a comprehensive directory of resources
You have a heart for missions, but you're not sure where to begin. Or you are part of a short-term missions team that will soon be traveling overseas to play a part in building God's kingdom, but you're not certain what you will need for your trip. Perhaps you are a long-term missionary in need of information about various resources. You might be a missions pastor trying to organize an overseas trip, and you're looking for an easy way to gather all of the data you need.
You've come to the right place! MissionEquip brings free and low-cost tools and resources to your fingertips. Please take some time to explore the various resources below which we have hand-picked as being particularly valuable to the worldwide missions community. 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 Prepare You To Go!
Overseas Protection
We offer 24/7 worldwide assistance for your short-term missions trips, long-term missionary stays, long-term missionary travel, and more!
World Missions Bookstore
Shop from our hand-picked selection of missions-related books. We have chosen books which we believe will be of great value to those who are committed to spreading the gospel throughout the world.
Worldwide Internet Access
A Prepaid Internet ISP, allowing you to access the internet while traveling, from all worldwide locations with a single username and password — this makes internet global roaming as easy as 1-2-3.
Travel Documents
OfficialTravelDocuments.com provides a trusted, direct-to-government service, ensuring that travelers receive their passports, visas and birth certificates in time for their trips through a reliable, convenient and secure service.
Wireless Travel Solutions
Telestial Inc. provides convenient, cost-effective telecommunications services to North American business and recreational travelers. With the click of a mouse, you visit Telestial's web site and obtain pre-paid wireless products for use in over 140 countries around the world.
Language Software
Millions of people all over the world are using ECTACO handheld dictionaries and LingvoSoft software products - convenient linguistic tools for businesspeople and tourists, professional interpreters and students, a necessity for people living abroad.
News
Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, a global information company providing indispensable information with a reputation for speed, accuracy and freedom from bias.
News From A Christian Perspective
Assist is an international ministry started sixteen years ago by journalist and author, Dan Wooding and his wife, Norma, as a way to help Christians living under difficult circumstances, and to share the Gospel with those who do not know Christ. AssistNews.net is their news service which aggregates worldwide news from a Christian perspective.
Country Reports
CountryReports.org offers more than 26,000 pages of content covering a wide-range of topics. Their statistical data and cultural information has proven to be valuable to students, parents, teachers, and researchers alike.
Online Guestmap
View our online guestmap for a quick read on where people who participate in MissionEquip.com are located.
220V Appliance Needs
Call 220 International, Inc. specializes in selling 220 volt (50 cycle) electrical appliances to Americans for use overseas. They offer hundreds of different name brand 220 appliances and try to make adapting to a foreign environment easier for their customers and their families.
Food Allergies
International food information to keep you healthy. The International Food Information Council's mission is to communicate science-based information on food safety and nutrition to health and nutrition professionals, educators, journalists, government officials and others providing information to consumers.
People Groups
The information at PeopleGroups.org is compiled by The Global Research Department of the International Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention. The Global Research Department gathers and analyzes information collected through a global network of research coordinators. These coordinators obtain information from approximately 5,500 International Mission Board field personnel, local evangelical partners, and others.
International Dialing Codes
Find international dialing codes for countries worldwide in this table which lists Country Codes, IDD (International Direct Dialing) prefixes, and NDD (National Direct Dialing) prefixes.
Language Translator
You can rely on human translation for accuracy and understanding, but, if you want the rough meaning of foreign documents then try one of the free machine translation services from Applied Language Solutions.
Time
TimeAndDate.com offers a wide variety of time zone and other time-related travel information.
Newspapers
Newseum displays today's front pages from 494 newspapers in 46 countries.
Vaccines
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provide comprehensive information regarding the necessary vaccines for travelers in all parts of the world.
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