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As a NextGen, you can make a global impact with the International Mission Board by using your passion and energy to help reach the nations with the gospel.

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Lottie Moon Christmas Offering®

Fueling the Mission. Reaching the Nations.

100% of the Lottie Moon Offering sends and sustains missionaries on the field. Your gift today helps bring the hope of the gospel around the world.

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Mission Trips

1-3 weeks

Most missionaries’ testimonies go back to a life-changing experience on a short-term mission trip. Whether it’s your spring, summer, or winter break there are many ways for you to serve 1-3 weeks around the world with IMB missionary teams.

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Guadalajara, Mexico

Go Experience Guadalajara September 4-11, 2027

The team will participate and explore opportunities that involve entry, evangelism, discipleship, leadership development and church planting. This city is 6 million people, with the predominant religion being Folk-Catholicism, meaning…

$1,250 + airfare, insurance & visa costs
Various Locations – The Americas

Go Impact: The Americas

Go Impact is an IMB pathway for churches to send short-term high school and college teams to help spread the gospel to the ends of the earth. Inquire today about…

Southeast Asia

Gem Finders – 3 Weeks in SE Asia

Do you care for the hidden peoples? Would you go searching for the overlooked? Sift through a city of 9 million people to find the Hidden Gems…the deaf. Go to…

$1,980 + airfare, insurance & visa costs
Philippines

NT4Teens: Philippine Ag & Village (2027)

The Philippine tourism slogan is “It’s more fun in the Philippines,” so for sure, while you work & minister, you will have fun getting to know the Filipinos of the…

$1,145 + airfare, insurance & visa costs
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Summer Mission Trips

6-8 WEEKS

Join with thousands of college students using their summer break to reach the lost with missionary teams. IMB has numerous, inexpensive ways for you to serve 6-8 weeks each summer in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas, and many other places all over the world.

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Indigenous town & city in Andes Mountains of Peru

SS 27 Church Planting and Ministry in Andes Mountains

There is much spiritual need in the Andes mountains of Peru and you can be used by the Father to help meet this need! One student team (2-3 students) will…

$2,300 + airfare, insurance & visa costs
Indigenous Village in Southern Mexico

SS 27 Sharing the Gospel in Indigenous Village

Help us push back the darkness among the indigenous of Mexico. Your job will be to share the gospel as you engage people on the soccer field, on the basketball…

$1,865 + airfare, insurance & visa costs
Southeast Asia

NT: Evangelism & Discipleship via English (2027)

Sharing the Gospel, building relationships, communicating Christ, discipling young believers and forming small groups via English and Computer classes at FOCUS CENTER. Your first stop will be a joint orientation…

$2,300 + airfare, insurance & visa costs
Southeast Asia

Gem Finders – Summer in SE Asia

Do you care for the hidden peoples? Would you go searching for the overlooked? Sift through a city of 9 million people to find the Hidden Gems…the deaf. Go to…

$3,975 + airfare, insurance & visa costs
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Missions Residency

4 MONTHS TO 1 YEAR

Missions Residency is an opportunity for students and young adults interested in working alongside a missionary mentor to share the gospel of Jesus with unreached peoples. Members of Southern Baptist Convention Churches can receive funding to cover half the cost to go.

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Residency: Urban Pioneer – Spring ’27

Come help support an exciting work in an un-engaged sector of an exciting North African megacity! Help lay the foundation for a work that we pray will bear fruit for…

$7,250 + visa costs
Oaxaca, Mexico

Residency: Oaxaca, Mexico Fall 2027

Come to Oaxaca and be a part of the Oaxaca Mobilization Team. Your Residency Term will include ministry to college students, working in remote mountain villages, leveraging teaching English to…

$6,625 + visa costs
Eastern Europe

Residency – Belgrade 2027 January-July

Students will be working in a city which has less than .01% believers. With 142,000 University students, that means statistically there are fewer than 150 believers among them. What type…

$9,143 + visa costs
Buenos Aries

Residency: University Student Engagement in Buenos Aires

Has university ministry helped you grow in Christ? Would you like to share that impact with other university students? Come join the work in beautiful Buenos Aires, Argentina! Buenos Aires…

$7,200 + visa costs
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PREPARING PEOPLE FOR MISSION

Journeyman

IMB offers a unique, fully-funded, 2-year missions opportunity for young adults aged 21-29. As a Journeyman, you can be sent by your church through IMB to join an international missionary team to share the gospel, make disciples, and help plant churches.

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Other ways to get involved

Start a Campaign

Launch a campaign to rally support and raise funds for impactful global missions

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Fund a Project

Support IMB’s giving projects to help fund global missions, provide resources for missionaries, and make a lasting impact.

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Student Generosity

In 2019 students across North America gave $400,000 to fund specific ministry needs of IMB teams. Will you trade a cup of coffee to see the bible translated for deaf communities?

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Guides & Resources

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GO Impact trip leaves lasting impression on students’ lives

Article | November 6, 2023

Summer missionaries learn to be authentic followers of Christ

Article | October 21, 2024

NextGen makes impact on spiritual lostness

Article | June 8, 2023

Journeyman asks friends to read Bible, lives transform

Article | April 4, 2024

Frequently asked questions

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Yes, there are opportunities to gain experience and serve in ways that can advance your education. Work with your school to determine what is required to be considered an acceptable internship while overseas. Search the IMB trip finder for existing requests that might be a match. You can also contact info@imb.org to inquire about other opportunities not listed that may be suitable.

If you are facing some pushback about your decision to go, take a step back and ask why. Are their concerns valid? It is tempting to cast our parents’ questions in a negative light without considering the motivations behind their concerns. Parents may need you to share more information. You have likely spent days and weeks considering an opportunity and your decision to go, but your parents only get minutes to agree. Your application (as an adult) with us is confidential; it is your responsibility to help them learn the details. Parents may need reassurance that you are maturing. A recent past of careless spending, speeding, and skipping classes can make it difficult for you to convince your parents that you are ready to travel across the world and make a difference. What needs to change in your life? Parents may need some grace and empathy. Perhaps they simply are grieving your departure. Pray for your parents. Bring their concerns, fears, and hopes before the Lord and ask Him to give you and your parents a unified vision for His kingdom. Parents may worry that you will short-circuit your education. College is expensive, and also essential in many careers, but a degree should not take God’s place in your life. Are you hearing God’s call to make disciples of the nations? God’s plans will likely lead you through an education, but not at the expense of putting obedience on hold. Parents may need you to invite them into this vision and discover that it is more than a whim or sidetrack.

Serving as a student missionary is worth your best efforts to prepare spiritually, physically, intellectually and emotionally. While all mission opportunities deserve preparation, a simple principle is “the longer your trip, the more essential your readiness.” Here are some suggestions to get you started: Gain ministry experience before you go. Serve here and now in areas that you expect to do overseas. Engage in spiritual disciplines, like daily Bible study and prayer, as well as Scripture memory. Meet with others regularly to pray for the people you will serve and opportunities to share the gospel. Get healthy! Eat nutritious foods, exercise often, and get plenty of sleep. Living overseas will likely require more walking and climbing that you do at home. Identify any emotional challenges you may have like anxiety, depression, or anger and if needed, seek help from a professional, biblical counselor. Learn about the people and place where you will serve. Start the process of crossing cultures now. Get to know internationals in your area.

Yes! There are numerous opportunities around the world for you to use your passions, major, skills, and interests to engage the nations with the gospel. Quite often it is a skill, interest, or ability that provides the connecting point to build relationships with others in a different culture. Missionary teams look for such entry points into unreached and unengaged people groups and can use your abilities to meet their needs, spiritual and physical, for the sake of the gospel. We trust that God will use your skills and interests for His glory during your time of service.

You can expect to experience new languages, foods, sights, smells and sounds! As you encounter these and other experiences, remind yourself that one way is not the “right” way to live and the other way is “wrong.” Seek to embrace the differences and learn as much as you can to appreciate other cultures. You can prepare before you travel by researching your trip location and seeking out a local “outpost” of that culture in your city or area. Find and visit a restaurant that serves authentic food from the culture. Know that your field team will welcome your questions.

You might hear the term “fundraising” for your trip. Fundraising is simply asking someone for money; support development is asking a donor to join you in a mission endeavor. We encourage you to take the support development approach: Ask others for the opportunity to explain the call that God has put in your heart to share the gospel with people who do not know Jesus as their Savior. Invite them to join you in sharing the gospel by actively praying for you and/or helping provide for the financial needs of this mission experience. The support approach requires more effort on your part, such as providing prayer updates, reports, and follow-up when you return, but it will be more fruitful for both you and those supporting you.

Our standard is for you to be part of a team. In most instances, you will be assigned with one or more students who will serve with you. Regardless, you will be part of a group that includes our long-term field personnel.