2022 RtH Mission Trips

Below is our RtH Mission Trip Calendar as well as a few of RtH's Mission Trip Partners and trip descriptions to give you an idea of what it looks like to go serve alongside our mission partners.

MISSION TRIP CLASSIFICATIONS

• Level 1 - One-day, easy travel, low cost, $35-$50.

• Level 2 - Seven to 9-days, 8-12 hrs travel, $700 + airfare.

• Level 3 - Nine to 11-days, 10-15 hrs travel, $700-$1,000 + airfare.

• Level 4 - Eleven to 14-days, 25-35 hrs travel, $1,500-$1,800 + airfare.

MALAWI: Level 4 Mission Trip

A typical Malawi trip consists of water-well installation, Jesus Film Outreaches, women’s and children’s ministry, orphanage visit, eyeglass clinics, discipleship training, teaching and a 2-day safari. This trip is a "once in a life time" mission trip!

Malawi Trip Dates
May 1-13, 2022
October 2-14, 2022

PHILIPPINES: Level 3 Mission Trip

In the Philippines, we are partnered with the Wick Tribe serving the poor in Davao City. These trips are filled with outreaches, distributing food packages, running basketball camps, kids’ clubs and eyeglass clinics. This trip is perfect for those who love to work with children, sharing your faith, prayer for others, teaching, and sports ministry!

Philippines Trip Dates
June 12-22, 2022
August 21-31, 2022

COSTA RICA: Level 2 Mission Trip

In Costa Rica, we serve alongside our partner, Pastor Christopher Arista and Calvary Chapel Palabra Viva. We will be sharing our faith, teaching, hosting a women's conference, children ministry, soccer outreaches, and more. This trip is an excellent opportunity for those going on a first time mission trip!

Costa Rica Trip Dates
January 21-28, 2022
July 22-30, 2022

MEXICO: Level 1 Mission Trip If you have a busy schedule or you're a first-time traveler, our one-day mission trips to Mexico are the perfect opportunity to get a first taste of the mission field and discover your unique talents and gifts in ministry. Throughout the year, we organize outreaches, work-days, and orphanage visits in order to expand the work of our ministry partners in Mexico. Mexico Trip Dates April 30, 2022 • REGISTER July 2, 2022 • REGISTER Sept 3, 2022 • REGISTER Dec 15, 2022 • REGISTER JOIN US Interested in joining us on our upcoming mission trips to Mexico? Click the "Register" link next to the trip date you're interested in! Interested in joining us on our mission trips to Costa Rica, the Philippines, and/or Malawi? Click the image below to fill out a Trip Application!

More trips will be added & dates finalized 
as the year goes on, so keep checking back.

MISSION TRIPS CALENDAR

• January 21-28, 2022  . .  Costa Rica Trip
• April 30, 2022 . . . . . . .  Mexico 1-Day Trip • REGISTER
• May 1-13, 2022 . . . . . .  Malawi Mission Trip
• June 12-22, 2022 . . . . .  Philippines Trip
• July 2, 2022 . . . . . . . . .  Mexico 1-Day Trip • REGISTER
• July 22-30, 2022  . . . . .  Costa Rica Trip
• August 21-31, 2022 . . .  Philippines Trip
• September 3, 2022 . . . .  Mexico 1-Day Trip • REGISTER
• October 2-14, 2022  . . .  Malawi Trip
• December 15, 2022  . . .  Mexico 1-Day Trip • REGISTER

Because of COVID-19 we had to postpone many of our International Teams in 2020-2021. Please pray with us for our missionaries and the people in these countries for good health and provision. May they put their trust and hope in Jesus Christ.

Samaritan Ministries Highlights Carlos & Lisa

Samaritan Ministries interviewed Carlos & Lisa Sales and published this article on their website. 

Click HERE to read. 

How the Pandemic Might Help You Bear Fruit

 By Alison Langerman

After going on several trips with RtH in the past, I was concerned about the way American Christians would react to supporting the ministry further during COVID-19. This concern led me to really begin thinking about my own privileged position and attitude living in a 1^st world nation. These thoughts, prayers, and reflections are just the beginning of my own personal response to what God is doing in my small corner of the world.

Amidst all the chaos of quarantine and the fears of the spreading virus, I read this quote from author Christine Caine, “Sometimes when you are in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but actually you’ve been planted.” What a different point of view. I don’t know how this global pandemic has affected you, but it has certainly changed your life in some very unexpected ways; how will you choose to view this trial? Don’t let yourself be buried when God might be planning transformed life.

I have asked God repeatedly to stop this quickly and heal the thousands who are suffering, but then the prompting of the Holy Spirit forced me to change my prayer. I began to think, what if God is using this global crisis to draw hundreds of thousands of hearts to him? There seems to be such a lack of good news during this time. But I have heard so many encouraging testimonies about college students attending virtual bible studies, about fathers who work from home finally being able to read scripture to their kids, and about floods of desperate seekers logging into virtual church services. With tears of anxiety in my eyes and a lump in my throat, I decided to change my prayer of “stop this quickly” into a prayer that I might have strength to endure this for as long as it needs to last for lives to be saved. As much as it terrifies me, I am choosing to be planted and not buried.

In his article, “First-Year Vineyard Care,” Wes Hagan explains that after planting young vines the vintner will gradually decrease watering to force the plant to grow deeper roots. Hagan encourages vintners to, “Allow the roots to dry out between water applications. This will promote root growth as the vines sink their root systems deeper into the soil layers in an attempt to find water.” This strange season certainly feels like God has left us wandering without water. However, I will choose to believe that our sovereign Lord actually has a plan and that he will use these deeper roots that we are being forced to grow now in order to bear beautiful, sweet fruit in the days to come.

John 5:15 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”

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#GivingTuesdayNow ~ Philippines Relief

#GivingTuesdayNow on May 5th, we are asking you to step up and provide relief for the Philippines. Your gift will provide food, medicine, and other essentials to those hit hardest by COVID-19 in the Philippines. Give between now and May 5th at https://tinyurl.com/RtH-GTN

2020 Mission Trips

Because of COVID-19 travel restrictions our

 trips have been postponed for 2020.

Click HERE to request more info on trips. 

2020's RtH Trips

• January 25 • RtH Warehouse Day Email Trips@ReachingtheHungry.org
• April 18 • Mexico 1-Day Orphanage Trip - Registration
• May 1-13 • Malawi Mission Trip
• May 30 - Mexico 1-Day Construction Trip - Registration
• May 31 - June 12 • Malawi Mission Trip
• June 7-17 • Philippines Mission Trip 
• July 5-17 • Malawi Mission Trip
• July 19-29 • Philippines Mission Trip 
• July 25 • Mexico 1-Day Orphanage Trip - Registration
• Aug 9-17 • Costa Rica Mission Trip
• Aug 22 • Mexico 1-Day Outreach Trip - Registration
• Sept 27 - Oct 9 • Malawi Mission Trip
• Dec 17 • Mexico 1-Day Christmas Orphanage Trip- Registration

2019 Reaching the Hungry Year in Review

Thank you to everyone who served with Reaching the Hungry in 2019! Whether you gave resources, time, or traveled on one of our teams, you made a difference that only you could make. Take a look at what happened this last year:

Check out our other posts to see what we have planned for 2020 and get involved! We can't wait to see what God will do through you this year!

Mexico Christmas Outreach - December 7th, 2019

Hope for the Holidays - December 2019

     In our 10^th year together, we are hoping to see you do something unprecedented. We are beginning a new project in Malawi – one that will change the futures of thousands. The goal is a self-sustaining Christian Community Center that will provide training and resources to tens of thousands of Malawians.

     We are asking you to lead the charge forward TODAY in radically changing the future of Malawi with a generous end-of-the-year gift. The goal is ambitious, but we have seen you step up time and time again to reach those most in need across the globe.

On #GivingTuesday

YOUR gift makes
 ALL the difference!

Your donation will provide a water well to a village in Mtakataka, Malawi. This is YOUR chance to change the future of an entire village with a simple gift!

Be the HERO they need!

Dec 7, 2019 Mexico 1-Day Outreach

Click on flyer to REGISTER for Mexico Outreach...

You must have a passport.

If you can't go, PLEASE bless a 

child with a Christmas Gift... CLICK HERE

May 2019 Malawi Mission's Trip

Gracie's Philippines Blog

Going Back

by Grace Beougher (Sales)

Going back was harder at first then I imagined. 

I was so excited to go with the team, including my fiance, Zac, and show them my life there but part of me didn't know if returning would bring back all the stress that I felt when I was there or if it would feel like a heartbreak when the time came to return to the States again. 

Ever since my first overseas missions trip with my dad to Malawi when I was 17 yrs. old (nearly 10 years ago!), I've struggled with culture-shock and heartache each time I stepped off a plane and back onto U.S. soil. Part of my heart was left with each ministry I worked with and each seed I planted/watered. However, leaving the Philippines last year to return to the U.S. was a much more severe separation than ever before. I had been gone longer this time and I experienced stress, fatigue, and loss during my time in the Philippines. Being back home in the U.S. felt comfortable and safe which made part of me want to avoid the feelings involved in returning to my host culture (the Philippines) and then having to say goodbye to it once more. 

With my dad on one side and Zac on the other, I gained the courage and motivation to return. If they experienced what I had maybe they would begin to understand my stories. 

We returned to the small mountain village where I had spent almost a month 3 years prior. The little community of believers that my previous team had the privilege of baptizing was now ready for their first church building and they were in need of supplies to build the foundation. Our small team, my dad (Carlos), my fiance (now husband! Zac), med-student (Kenya), basketball guru (Tanner), and myself were packed onto several motorcycles for the hour trip up the mountain into the village. We spent the night in hammocks, visited the homes of the people, and hosted a Jesus film "movie night" for everyone there. After our night in the village, we hopped on a bus for 7 hours and headed toward Davao (where I had spent majority of my two and a half years there serving in the maternity clinic). There we met our ministry partners the Wicks. 

With the Wick family and their ministry team we got to:

• Visit House of Hope (a home for children fighting cancer)
• Help with their kids ministry "Buhi" (much like a weekly VBS program)
• Play lots of basketball with their basketball ministry (which instills godly principles in children and teaches them how to memorize scripture)
• Serve with a food program
• Share at a truck rally (with some of the wealthiest and most influential men in Davao)
• Attend & Encourage the Wick's church
• Distribute Love Packs (food, toiletries, & other necessities delivered door-to-door to the poorest communities in Davao)
• Pray over many many people!
• Also, Kenya and I were able to serve a couple times in the clinic that I had worked with before. It was a whirlwind of a trip and God worked mightily. 

It was a privilege to show my home to the team and I was reminded of all the wonderful things I missed about living in the Philippines. It was filled with fun memories and joy and less anxiety then I had imagined in returning. God allowed me to re-experience so many things that I loved about my previous time in my host culture.

Ultimately, I was reminded that the anxieties a person can have when traveling to another country can happen for a variety of reasons. Whether this is the first time going on a trip or whether they've been going for 10 years, stepping off a plane in a new culture is not an easy thing to do, even if you're certain it's what God has asked you to do. Mission Trips are difficult; they can be stressful and anxiety-producing but when you take the opportunities that God has given you, to love in ways that He has equipped you, He will show up. God will always reach towards us through ways we couldn't have imagined and often in ways that stretch us in our fears and anxieties. Going on a Mission Trip and following through with the prayer, fundraising, traveling, and evangelism may just be God's way of reaching towards you & His children living half a world away. 

If you see some of yourself in my story or maybe you sense God asking you to reach out, consider joining RTH on the next trip to the Philippines this summer:

Missionaries RtH Partners with in the Philippines!

2019 Sales Family Prayer Card

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Click HERE for our 2018 Year End Look Back Video

What Happened In 2018!

2018 Year-End Thank You Video

Watch our Year-End Thank You video by clicking...

Happy Thanksgiving From Reaching the Hungry!

Giving Tuesday Tuesday, Nov. 27th

#GivingTuesday is coming up! Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration.

Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) and the widely recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday kicks off the charitable season, when many focus on their holiday and end-of-year giving.

On Nov. 27th, Facebook and PayPal are matching donations a total of up to $7 million on Facebook. Your donations to Reaching the Hungry through our Facebook donate button on Nov. 27th could be matched! Mark your calendar & make your donation on Nov. 27th!

Mexico Christmas Outreach Saturday, Dec. 8th

We are partnering with a church in Tijuana, Mexico to host a Christmas Outreach on Saturday, Dec 8th. We're collecting Christmas gifts, blankets, & dry goods to bless 300 children & their families in this community. We're also having medical, dental, and reading glass clinics to serve the people. We will also have lots of food, and lots of fun activities for the children! Will you join us?

Safety Note: We are in close communication with our partners in Mexico and they have assured that it is safe to cross the border and back into the U.S. during this time. Pastor Carlos will being going down a couple days before the outreach to insure that there aren't any issues.

If you can't make it but would like to send Christmas gifts with us for the outreach, check out our Amazon Christmas WishList (it will send automatically to our donation intake for the outreach).

Mexico Orphanage Trip Saturday, Sept 29th

We returned to bless the beautiful children of Orfanatorio Emmanuel. It was one of the best times we've had there! The children are getting to know some that have been before and have developed new friendships as well. Here's what we did:

• The children were blessed with a wonderful story time by Rosario Franco.
• Dr. Eric (pediatrician that was with us) gave every child check-up. He reported that it was really nice to see that they all doing well and are getting good care.
• Lots of fun crafts, yard activities, and games. 
• A delicious lunch... hamburgers that were bigger than some of their heads. Plus, amazing street tacos! 
• We thoroughly cleaned all the children's rooms, restrooms, hallways, and stairwells. 
• We thoroughly cleaned their kitchen!
• We painted their back stairwell.
• We hung curtain rods in all the children's rooms.
• We fixed several doors and door jams. 
• A drywall crew went back down to patch holds, work on several of their ceilings and door jams. 
• Trips fees also provided the funds to do some badly needed roofing. 

Here's a VIDEO from this trip as well as some PICTURES.

Malawi Discipleship Training Oct 21st-Nov 2nd, 2018

Pastor Carlos & Dr. Mark Williams have returned from our latest trip to Malawi. Here's what they did during this trip (from the words of Pastor Mark):

• We trained over 100 in Discipleship Journeys with Jesus and how to use the materials (which are now in Chichewa language).
• We trained all of these in "House Church Planting" for 2 days. This was in partnership with Dynamic Church Planting International (DCPI).
• We certified 23 Certified Trainers for the House Church Planting materials. (These can now train others in House Church Planting.
• We installed one water well in a village and repaired one in another village. I had the privilege of sharing the Gospel at the dedication and about 50 prayed to receive salvation.
• We showed the Jesus Film to a village and close to 300 people made decisions to accept Christ.
• We spoke at a fundraising church service to raise funds for a building for a new church plant (3 hours outside partially shaded under trees.
• We spoke to about 58 village chiefs to introduce DJJ (another outdoor meeting under trees for about 1.5 hours). Handed out 10 talking Bibles.
• We visited a mission station pioneered by the famous Scottish Missionary David Livingstone.

To continue or to begin supporting the work we're doing in Malawi, click HERE or go to reachingthehungry.org, and to find out more about Discipleship Journeys with Jesus, click HERE.

#GivingTuesday is Coming!

14 days until #GivingTuesday! On Nov. 27, Facebook and PayPal are matching donations a total of up to $7 million on Facebook. Your donations to Reaching the Hungry on Nov. 27th could be matched! 

Mark your calendar & make your donation on Nov. 27th!

Donation Links:

FaceBook ( tinyurl.com/RtH-GivingTuesday2018 ) Use FB and Double your donation! 

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Amazon Wish-list Gift (tinyurl.com/RtH-AmazonWishlist OR tinyurl.com/RtH-Mexico-Christmas-Wishlist)

Facebook (facebook.com/reachingthehungry/ - Donation Button)

We're Back From Discipleship & Church Planting!

We are back from our latest trip to Malawi! Here are some highlights:

To continue or to begin supporting the work we're doing in Malawi, click HERE, and to find out more about Discipleship Journeys with Jesus, click HERE.