It’s been just two weeks since a second devastating tornado hit Vilonia, Arkansas, and we know many of you are ready to act.  After identifying areas where we can best serve our Arkansas neighbors, we are sending relief teams out beginning soon. We are working alongside local authorities, agencies, and churches to determine the most strategic use of your time in the affected areas throughout the summer. You can sign up for a week-long trip where you will respond to both physical and emotional needs. Be a helping hand and a listening ear to those experiencing pain...

Today, Seth Barnes, Executive Director for Adventures in Missions shares his own experience with how God teaches and stretches us through times of difficulty.   If you have proven yourself trustworthy to God, watch out! He may trust you with one of his most precious and misinterpreted of gifts: the gift of pain. The prosperity gospel people have it wrong. God is probably more interested in our response to testing than he is in showering us with material blessings. How will you do in tough times? This is the age-old bet that Satan makes with God, the best example of which we see in the...

When Ashley Peterson heard about the typhoon barreling toward the Philippines, she knew her upcoming trip wasn’t going to go as planned. Instead of meeting with ministry contacts, she shifted her focus to disaster recovery work. Like many who traveled to the Philippines just after Typhoon Haiyan, Ashley wanted to assist with relief work in hard-hit Tacloban. But she wasn’t able to get there. “I was really upset,” remembers Ashley. “We couldn’t do what I thought we’d come to do.” But then Ashley met a missionary who suggested a different ministry...

You don’t need to have experience in construction or a Bible degree to make an impact in Haiti. Even though there are desperate physical needs for physical disaster relief, many overlook the spiritual need that can be met if you’re willing to be a vessel of God’s grace. Ben, a participant in a youth trip to Haiti writes about experiencing the great need for prayer in Haiti.  I was nervous about participating in an Ask the Lord (ATL). We were each supposed to pray quietly for 25 to 30 minutes listening to what God has to tell or show us. Why would God want to...

Typhoon Haiyan decimated the Philippines last week. Two million people in 41 provinces have been affected by the typhoon; officials have estimated that 10,000 people lost their lives. We watched, horrified, as whole cities crumbled and villages were swept out to sea. We watched as reports of desperate people looting for food and supplies came in from news sources worldwide. We watched a nation sink to its knees. But we don’t have to watch anymore. We can do something. You can do something. Stay informed. We’ve got teams already in place to meet needs that matter, to help...

Colby Gardner is on staff with the Church2Church Department at Adventures in Missions. Recently, he led an Adventures Relief trip to Moore, Oklahoma, where he saw the destruction caused by the massive tornado. There, he witnessed the power of community in a town torn apart by natural disaster. Rolling down the interstate into Moore, Oklahoma, I thought to myself, "Oh, this isn't bad at all." Then I got off the highway and made the decision to visit the residential areas. As I rolled down Santa Fe Avenue and opened my eyes to the reality that hit this town on May 20, I couldn't...