Mission Discovery mission trips are organized around five to ten-day short-term mission outreaches. Each mission trip team will be involved in a vital construction project along with an outreach led by team members that communicate the Good News of Jesus Christ.
There are plenty of missions opportunities to choose from. Mission Discovery teams serve as:
LEARNERS
SERVANTS
STORY TELLERS
Mission Discovery teams serve the world’s most vulnerable communities. We organize all of the details, such as lodging, food, worship, building materials, etc. Our trips provide an environment for spiritual growth and servanthood that is like no other.
Missionaries in the Bible include figures like Paul, who traveled extensively to spread the Gospel, and Esther, who used her influence to advocate for her people. Other examples are Philip, who preached to the Samaritans and the Ethiopian eunuch, and the unnamed servant girl who shared God's message in a foreign land.
Key Missionaries in the Bible
Notable Figures
Missionary Key Contributions
Paul Known as the greatest missionary, he traveled extensively to spread the Gospel and establish churches across the Roman Empire. His journeys are detailed in the Book of Acts.
Esther Used her position as queen to advocate for her people, demonstrating the power of influence in mission work.
Philip Preached to the Samaritans and the Ethiopian eunuch, showing the importance of individual evangelism.
John the Baptist Preached boldly about repentance and prepared the way for Jesus, emphasizing the focus on Christ.
A Little Maid An unnamed girl who, despite being a captive, directed Naaman to the prophet Elisha for healing, showcasing the impact of sharing faith in difficult circumstances.
So many Christian leaders want their ministries to become more sustainable. How can we get there? Join EMI staff member and Creation Care series host Rob Quail for a webinar on how we apply creation care principles and sustainable design to EMI Projects. Rob will walk us through the research done by the EMI creation care working group on various holistic sustainability assessment tools already in existence, how we have applied some of them on previous projects and the application of a new tool, developed in-house by EMI, on a recent project trip to Belize.
The sustainability appraisal is intended to inform strategic planning, particularly as it relates to long-term cost efficiency, energy use, and the expansion of campus facilities. Join us to learn how the sustainability assessment can serve your ministry or how you can partner with EMI in this service.
Together we design and build projects that bring hope to communities around the world.
Intro to Creation Care - EMI Series #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7h4j63HTfk
Landscape Architecture - EMI Creation Care Series #4
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The wait is finally over! We received a truly inspirational collection of photographs and stories for this year’s ‘Into the Wild’ contest. Thank you to every missionary and humanitarian worker who shared their perspective. Your commitment to service in the world’s wildest and most remote places is a powerful testament to hope.
We are proud to announce the top three winners, chosen for their compelling images, emotional depth, and strong alignment with the spirit of the theme.
Jesus Christ did not say — “Go and save souls” (the salvation of souls is the supernatural work of God), but — “Go and teach,” i.e., disciple, “all nations,” and you cannot make disciples unless you are a disciple yourself. When the disciples came back from their first mission, they were filled with joy because the devils were subject to them, and Jesus said — “Don’t rejoice in successful service; the great secret of joy is that you are rightly related to Me.” The great essential of the missionary is that he remains true to the call of God, and realises that his one purpose is to disciple men and women to Jesus.
On March 24, 2025, God called FBM Missionary Rich Marshall home to heaven. Rich and Anna were in Mali wrapping up 40 years of faithful service to Christ. Just ten days later, on April 3, they had plans to leave Mali and retire to the US. Instead, God said, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant” to Rich and brought his time on earth to a close. Today, we would like to share some of Rich Marshall’s story with you and also bring you an update on what God continues to do in Mali.
Rich was born in 1955 in Timbuktu, Mali to missionaries Frank and Eleanor Marshall. His birth was not a worldwide headline. However, the impact of his birth is impossible to put into words.
In 1977, Rich married Anna and they began their life together. They spent several years in the US attending college and getting additional training. In 1982, they started raising support to return to Mali as missionaries. After a few years of support raising and language school, Rich and Anna returned to Timbuktu in 1985.
Upon returning to Timbuktu, Rich’s mindset was, “We’re here to share the Gospel!”
“In everything you do, put God first, and He will direct you and crown your efforts with success” (Proverbs 3:6, TLB). This is the life verse of Don Campion, co-founder and president of Banyan Air Service, Inc. and his wife, Sueanne Campion, who have spent the last 15 years rebuilding the mission hospital compound in Egbe, Nigeria, where Don was raised in rural West Africa.
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Heroes. They encourage us to hope, to trust, to believe, and to achieve. For 50 years, Moody Bible Institute’s Stories of Great Christians informed and inspired listeners with biographies of real people . . . average men and women . . . who were called and equipped by God to show His love to the world. These dramatized, 15-minute stories bring to life 600 years of heroes of the faith. Listeners hear the voices, music, and sound effects of classic radio. They’ll be reintroduced to historic men and women they admired since childhood and meet new heroes whose stories will expand their world and deepen their Christian faith.
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August 30
Jesus Christ says, in effect, Don’t rejoice in successful service, but rejoice because you are rightly related to Me. The snare in Christian work is to rejoice in successful service, to rejoice in the fact that God has used you. You never can measure what God will do through you if you are rightly related to Jesus Christ. //
The tendency to-day is to put the emphasis on service. Beware of the people who make usefulness their ground of appeal. If you make usefulness the test, then Jesus Christ was the greatest failure that ever lived. The lodestar of the saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that counts, not what we do for Him.
October 19
The great enemy to the Lord Jesus Christ in the present day is the conception of practical work that has not come from the New Testament, but from the Systems of the world in which endless energy and activities are insisted upon, but no private life with God. The emphasis is put on the wrong thing. //
The central thing about the kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship to Himself, not public usefulness to men.
This is a virtual learning experience for rural water professionals and partners to analyze rural water services, evaluate the opportunities and risks and promote solar-powered water systems (SPWS) to improve water sustainability and equity supply programs. The guide has been delivered in English, French, and Spanish to participants in over 60 countries.
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Before I went to India for a six-month internship, I remember reading articles about poverty, trafficking, pollution, and the treatment of Dalit. I was participating in a program about international development, yet much of what I focused on were problems rather than the beauty, ingenuity, creativity, and generosity of the people who were teaching me. //
But if I could go back, here’s what I would say…
... you neither know much about the people whom these issues impact, nor do you have meaningful relationships with actual, real life people there. Don’t go with a pointing finger and answers; please go with curiosity and a desire to see the image of God in those you seek to love. //
But it’s not a country made up of the sum of its problems. It’s a country made up of people who are curious and quirky and kind and broken and shy and outgoing and proud and hilarious. And I’m a guest here. //
There are shadows of the kingdom of God here which are more visible to me the longer I’m here, even in this place where 99% don’t identify as His followers and haven’t received new life in Jesus. Parts of the culture that I originally viewed as wrong, broken, and even damaging, I’ve come to see as the opposite. (The “It’s not wrong, it’s just different” axiom from mission training comes to mind here.)
“No White Saviors” is a far-left group that specializes in tarring white missionaries to Africa as irredeemably racist. The group is shown in the docuseries as developing its audience and donor network after it began to exploit internal strife at Bach’s Ugandan clinic. //
when the clinic suffered a brief closure over a licensing issue, during which time several children died, Bach’s mother pulled together the clinic’s data and reported that of the 940 children treated by Serving His Children over a six-year period, 105 total children did not survive their severe acute malnutrition — a mortality rate of 11 percent. Meanwhile, a study of patients with the same condition at Uganda’s largest children’s hospital revealed the hospital’s mortality rate was 14 percent. Opponents of the Christian mission, however, were more fixated on Bach’s skin color than her efforts to save starving kids. //
Bach also announced the same month that Serving His Children would be dissolved, with services no longer available to sick children desperate for treatment.
No White Saviors no doubt counts Serving His Children as a feather in its cap, a white-run nonprofit demonized as a neocolonialist organization that served no other purpose than to assuage some form of white guilt. But Bach was just a Christian missionary who was answering a spiritual call, even if she made mistakes and couldn’t restore every child she served. At the end of the day, Bach will go on living with her family in Virginia. It will be the sick kids in Uganda who suffer from the woke-led destruction of her mission.