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- 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.
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.
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
Missions Insurance: Explore your options for overseas protection
Missionary Medical Insurance is an affordable way for missionaries to ensure that they are covered against medical emergencies while they’re on the field. Whatever your age, if you are leaving your home country, you need to purchase a missionary insurance plan.
We offer what we have found to be the highest quality providers of overseas medical and travel insurance. All of our companies offer 24/7 support for travelers and represent the best customer service in the industry. Below are company profiles of the insurers that we provide.
HTH Worldwide is a leader in international health insurance and assistance, selling plans to over 130,000 travelers annually.
HTH insists on partnering with admitted U.S carriers. Their travel medical plans are underwritten by UNICARE Life & Health Insurance Company, a WellPoint Health Networks company. Wellpoint is one of the nation's largest health insurance companies. Our trip protection plans are underwritten by Stonebridge Casualty insurance Company and Monumental General Casualty Company, owned by AEGON. AEGON is one of the largest property and casualty companies in the world.
For more than a decade, IMG has provided medical insurance to individuals, families and groups who are living or traveling abroad. IMG's strength lies in its ability to deliver superior service to our insured members. Their staff includes international claims administrators with a wealth of experience in processing claims from throughout the world; multilingual customer service representatives to assist it's members; and an on-site medical staff available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for medical emergencies.
While IMG provides complete plan administration expertise, their globally-recognized partner, Sirius International Insurance Corporation (publ), offers the financial security and reputation demanded by international consumers. Rated A (excellent) by A.M. Best and A- by Standard & Poor's*, Sirius International shares IMG's vision of the international marketplace and offers the stability of a well-established insurance company.
MultiNational Underwriters, Inc. (MNU) was established in 1998. It quickly became a recognized leader in the field of international health insurance, offering a complete portfolio of health and life insurance products to customers in over 130 countries.
In 2002, MNU was purchased by the Travel Guard International group of companies. This unique and progressive organization, with service offices throughout the world, positioned MNU to transform its customer service department to a full travel and international assistance platform.
Specialty Risk International, Inc. (SRI) began offering international medical insurance to the worldwide community in 1993.
Within the insurance industry, SRI is considered a Managing General Underwriter. They administer applications, process claims, pay agent commissions, etc on behalf of various insurance companies. Their dedication to providing clients with the best coverage has led them to secure the services of four different insurance companies to underwrite their programs.
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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