- 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
Missions Agencies: A comprehensive list of resources to serve the needs of organizations dedicated to spreading the gospel worldwide
You are responsible for supporting and organizing groups of overseas missionaries. Your work can be challenging. Mission:Equip is here to help. The following resources are hand-picked to serve missions agencies. 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.
Prepare
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.
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.
Time
TimeAndDate.com offers a wide variety of time zone and other time-related travel information.
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.
Vaccines
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provide comprehensive information regarding the necessary vaccines for travelers in all parts of the world.
Instant Criminal Background Checks
Search for criminal records including felony, misdemeanor, sex offender & county offense records. Helpful when evaluating members of short-term teams slated to work under the auspices of your field offices.
Go
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.
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.
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!
Connect
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!
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!
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.
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!
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!
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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3. Articles appearing on this site are submitted by independent authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of MissionEquip.