Serve-Asia Program
The Serve-Asia Program is specifically designed to facilitate short-term visits to the mission field with OMF. Come to the Philippines for anything from 6 weeks to 1 year.
- Stretch your faith
- Tell Filipinos about Jesus
- Help OMFers make disciples
- Train in mission
- A springboard for future service
Why Short-term?
Short-term trips provide great opportunities to experience a different culture. Working through our personal issues and prejudices, we discover which aspects of our faith are cultural and which are Biblical. This can greatly improve our own walk.
Involvement in overseas trips can provide guidance for the future. Responding to new situations, we gain insights about our gifts and abilities. We see the sort of service for which we might be suited. And we gain a greater sense of urgency about Gospel proclamation.
Short-termers can often have a unique and strategic role. Being younger and less threatening than long-term missionaries, we can often get into more situations, open new doors and develop new contacts. We can make friends with and get alongside the local people we are serving.
Our presence, interest and help can encourage long-term missionaries.
Short-term opportunities with OMF in the Philippines include:
- Helping church planting teams
- Serving the urban poor
- Taking Jesus to the tribes
- Working alongside missionaries
- Teaching missionary kids at an international school
- Using professional skills (eg. computer, health, finance)
What to do next?
- Get in touch with OMF in your home country
- Talk with your church leaders and other Christians whose opinions you trust
- Complete the application form
- Get prayer and financial support from your church, family and friends
- Read up on the Philippines
- Get accepted
- Get ready – injections, money, tickets, learn some useful phrases
- Come and serve
- Return home
- Attend conference and debrief
For more information contact the Philippines Serve-Asia Coordinators or the OMF Office in your country.