As Mount Zion International School of Ministry continues to grow with opportunities for overseas missions work, short term trips is one avenue the students, staff and interns are exposed to for further training.Short term trips have helped to expose many who have never been exposed to other cultures and nations. In the past two years, there have been trips to Peru, Mexico and Colombia. Each of those trips consisted of staff, students and interns.

In Mexico, the team spent a week building houses for families in a poor and impoverished community. They also held evangelistic outreaches to both children and adults. Within one week, they were able to use both practical and spiritual means to minister Christ’s love to a lost world.

In Peru, the team spent five days in a mountain village living amongst the people to minister God’s love. The mountain village was a poor one and one in which there was no church. The team assisted other Peruvians in upholding the small body of Christ that was living within this town. They taught classes for the children of the village everyday, went into the public schools and ministered God’s love and they did evangelistic outreaches. It was a time of ministering God’s love to a needy people and upholding the arms of the small body of faithful believers. One testimony is when the team went to visit a Christian elderly man. This man loved God but has struggled so often with near blindness and headaches associated with this. He runs a small farm in his backyard and his sight is his livelihood to be able to take care of his family. The team went to various homes visiting and when they reached this man’s home he was in such a place of despair and discouragement because of his illness and near blindness. The team sat and talked with the man and encouraged him in the faith. They prayed with him and after they prayed, the man’s severe headache left and he felt his vision had improved. The team saw the Lord move in awesome ways ministering to the poorest of the poor who had such faith and dependence on Christ alone.

In Colombia, a team assisted a work that has been present in Medellin for many years. They were able to participate in the many facets of this ministry – feeding the homeless, teaching Bible and English classes to the homeless, community members and more. They ministered in a church service, to men & women in drug rehabilitation programs and more. The team really enjoyed doing street ministry in a very impoverished area where many youth and adults live on the streets. Many of these youth are strung out on drugs and seemingly without hope. But, the team got to experience hope when they went with the ministry to these homeless and share bread and juice with the Gospel. The team experienced the Lord’s heart in reaching many of these people and learning of the hope found in ministries like this one which reach to many destitute people. As a result of this trip, Mount Zion International School of Ministry will be sending interns as part of the Internship program of Mount Zion.