- 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
About Us: The people behind Mission:Equip
Mission:Equip was established to provide resources to missionaries traveling worldwide. We provide solutions for missionaries all over the globe ranging from internet telephony to a worldwide blog connecting missionaries throughout the world. We also provide a wide variety of insurance products for missionaries as well as an array of other services dedicated to serving missionaries and mission sending organizations. We are dedicated to the missions community and seeing the gospel spread throughout the earth — missionaries can rest assured that they are in good care with MissionEquip.com.Why Trust Mission:Equip?
We have searched the best services and resources for missionaries, and provide what we have deemed as the best array of services for missionaries going abroad. With our experience in the missions community, you can rest assured that you are working with a solid company founded upon Christian principles with a desire to serve the missions community.Our Team
Toby Meisenheimer, Co-Founder and President
Toby Meisenheimer is a 1996 graduate of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He is the founder of Streamline Financial Services, where he currently serves as an independent financial advisor to over 200 clients across the United States, from California to Maine. He also co-founded GoMissionTrip.com over 5 years ago. He has taken summer mission trips to Mexico and the Dominican Republic, and is currently involved in charitable development for the School For Harvesters evangelistic outreaches throughout Honduras and Central America. Toby and his family make their home in the Chicago, Illinois area.
Dave Dias, Co-Founder
Dave Dias serves as a principal and Vice President of InterWest Insurance Services, a regional insurance operation with 12 offices in California. Dave's primary responsibilities are in market creation and business development. Dave is the co-founder of the Time Out Conference in the greater San Francisco Bay area, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Azusa Pacific University, and on the Board of Directors of Wake Up Santa Cruz, a local outreach ministry. Dave and his family make their home in Aptos, California, near the San Francisco Bay Area.
Frank Johnson, Co-Founder and Internet Strategist
Frank is a 1985 graduate of Bethany College in Scotts Valley, California (B.S. Ministerial Studies) and a licensed minister with the Northern California and Nevada District Council of the Assemblies of God. In addition, he is a member of the initial steering committee for Internet E-vangelism Day, a project sponsored by the Internet Evangelism Coalition and designed to be a worldwide focus day to help Christians catch the vision for the potential of internet evangelism. Frank has been an internet strategist for five years and is also the webmaster for several Christian organizations and ministries, including the following: ChristianCruz.com, David and Linda Arzouni, ChristianScreenSavers.com, and The Northern California and Nevada District of the Assemblies of God. Frank blogs at his ministry website, Strategic Digital Outreach. Frank and his family make their home in Scotts Valley, California, near the San Francisco Bay Area.
Matt and Jodi Girden , Co-Founders and Operations
Matt and Jodi Girden are 2004 graduates of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. They are the current operations and marketing directors of GoMissionTrip.com, a website providing overseas medical insurance to the missionary community. They are currently working on their MBA degrees from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Matt has been involved in mission trips to Africa, Mexico, and Canada, and Jodi has participated in YWAM missions in Southeast Asia and Australia. Matt and Jodi make their home in Melbourne, Florida.
David Friedman , Co-Founder and Strategic Relations
David graduated Magna Cum Laude from Wheaton College with a BS in Political Science and has a MA with Honors from Yale University in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics. He has spent the last several years advising governments and Global 1000 companies on Foreign Direct Investment and economic development strategies. He has assembled and managed teams for developing business strategies and plans for several $1 billion real estate developments including recently completing a study for a Technology Park in the Middle East for investors from the Saudi Royal Family along with several large economic development projects with the Government of Puerto Rico. Mr. Friedman currently works out of the Park Avenue, New York office for Oxford Analytica, a global political and economic analysis firm, based out of Oxford, England. David and his family make their home in the New York City area.
What I'm listening to ....
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