Global Bridging

Faithbridge sends missions teams around the world, and have established sustaining relationships with four key missions destinations detailed below. For details about upcoming mission trips, see the Related Events in the left column.

Read more about the various individual missionaries and organizations supported by Faithbridge on the Bridging Partners page.

Download an application for a global mission trip.

International Mission Destinations

  • Hope for Honduras

    Tegucigalpa, Honduras

    Faithbridge Contact: Bridging Coordinator

    After fleeing Hurricane Mitch in 1998, many Honduran people were forced up the mountainside where they built homes with whatever materials they could find. Even though Honduras’ official religion is Catholic, there are few people who actually practice or attend church at all. A decade ago, Hope for Honduras started out serving only one colonia of 350 people. Today, they have grown to helping almost 60,000 in twenty-three colonias.  They provide food, education, vocational training, medical help, and spiritual guidance to the people of these colonias.
    We work alongside missionaries Ron and Shelley Jones where we get the opportunity to be the hands and feet of Jesus in the small colonia of Mogote, a community where the average weekly wage is $5.  A few of our activities are a daily feeding program, house construction and dedication, children’s Bible class, women’s class, youth class, and loving on people. Hope for Honduras (HFH) is the best trip for first timers.
     
    www.hope4honduras.org 
  • Hope for Today

    Bihar, India

    Faithbridge Contact: Care & Bridging Pastor Dan Slagle

    “There is no place on the planet like India.” A friend spoke those words to Bridging Pastor Dan Slagle 20 years ago. After several trips to India in recent years, he is inclined to agree.  India is a land of extremes. The country itself is about one third the size of the USA but has four times the population. Even though it is on the cutting edge of technology and has one the fastest growing economies in the world, the vast majority of the population lives in poverty. Christianity was first introduced to India by Thomas, the “doubting Apostle,” but today over 90% of the population practices some form of Hinduism.In 2008, Faithbridge formed a partnership with Peter and Esther Periera at Hope for Today (HFT), a ministry dedicated to sharing the gospel and meeting the needs of the poor in India.

    www.hopeteam.org

  • Living Water International

    Honduras

    Faithbridge Contact: Neil Atkinson

    Water is at the heart of a daily crisis faced by a billion of the world’s most vulnerable people.The global water crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns. More people die each year from drinking dirty water than from the world’s hurricanes, floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes combined. Living Water helps deprived communities acquire safe, clean water. Their goal is to substantially ease the global water crisis while addressing root causes such as injustice, oppression, and abject poverty.

    Living Water will send over 100 volunteer teams to the field digging water wells. The focus of each project is transforming lives through relationships. This happens through the practical service we perform and through sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with those we are serving.

    www.water.cc
  • La Casa de Mi Padre

    San Salvador, El Salvador

    Faithbridge Contact: Joe and Jan Napoli

    While Joe and Jan Napoli were living in El Salvador, they became of aware of the “throw-away” children on the streets of San Salvador. They knew they had to do something and with several others laid the groundwork for what is now La Casa de mi Padre. Though they have since returned to the states, they currently serve on the Board of Directors and are still very much involved in the ministry. 

    La Casa de mi Padre provides care for children in crisis to heal their lives, restore families & bring hope of a better future through Christian counseling & modeling a Christian home with house parents.  La Casa currently has 36 children.

    Flexibility is the name of the game, but on each trip the team can expect to spend some time with the kids from La Casa doing crafts, helping with homework, or playing games.  Sometimes the older kids work along side us on our construction project in their  community.  Feeding the homeless, hosting a VBS, worshiping at a local church, and some one on one time with kids in a government run orphanage doing crafts are all often part of the trip.

    www.mfh-elsalvador.org