- 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
Long-Term Missionaries: A comprehensive list of resources for the veteran missionary
You're a veteran. You've done this before. But preparing to travel overseas can still be complicated, and you can still benefit from learning about new tools. Mission:Equip is here to help. The following resources are hand-picked to serve the long-term missionary. 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Newspapers
Newseum displays today's front pages from 494 newspapers in 46 countries.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
Skype
Skype is a little piece of software that lets you talk over the Internet to anyone, anywhere in the world for free.
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!
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!
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.
2. Authors of stories may ask for financial assistance with their projects. MissionEquip is not able to evaluate these requests prior to approving a story for display on our site. We therefore urge you to research any such requests carefully before committing funds.
3. Articles appearing on this site are submitted by independent authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of MissionEquip.