Applicants should be at least 21 years old. The Transformational Travel initiative of Beyond Borders seeks to build relationships across borders and challenge people to look at their lives in a new way-a way that reflects global realities. Participating groups of 6-8 people travel to Haiti for one week, meeting people from Haitian communities, staying in Haitian homes, and learning about their faith, their struggles, and their joys. They witness community organizations wrestling against great odds to make a better life for their people. They interact with both Haitians and expatriates who have spent years working for the justice and peace of God's Kingdom.
Emphasis is placed on learning and growing through new insights and awareness.
Participants perform their most important service after they return home in the response they make to their experience and in the life choices they make that promote local and global justice and peace in Jesus' name. Volunteers in both programs work with individual students or small groups in such areas as reading, math and science. Volunteers must love Christ, love children and not be afraid to try a variety of teaching strategies. Our tutors work closely with teachers and staff to successfully address each child's learning needs. MissionYear is not an exposure trip, an academic internship, or some kind of spiritual retreat.