Experience the mission up close.

Join GoTEN in South Asia for a relational mission experience centered on people, culture, and meaningful connection. Our team will serve alongside local organizations working with diaspora and refugee communities in one of South Asia’s most diverse cities. Through language programs, kids' activities, sports, crafts, community events, and everyday conversations, you’ll have opportunities to meet people from across the region and build genuine friendships.

This trip isn’t about arriving with all the answers or completing a list of projects. It’s about showing up, serving well, learning from others, and being present with people. You’ll experience a new culture, serve alongside local partners, and discover how simple acts of friendship and hospitality can open doors for deeper relationships. The team will also spend time exploring the city, experiencing local food and culture, praying together, and learning more about God’s heart for people from nations where access to the Gospel is limited.

What You'll Do

• Serve alongside local organizations working with diaspora communities
• Help with language and kids programs
• Connect through sports, games, crafts, and community activities
• Build friendships with people from different cultures and backgrounds
• Explore the city and experience South Asian culture
• Learn how to share your faith naturally through relationships
• Pray for and encourage local partners serving long-term

Who Should Go? This trip is a great fit for someone who is:

• Relational and enjoys meeting new people
• Flexible and willing to try unfamiliar things
• Ready to serve wherever needed
• Curious about other cultures
• Comfortable working with kids, students, or families
• Willing to listen, learn, and step outside their comfort zone

Interested in discovering how God might use them among the nations. Come ready to serve. Come ready to learn. Come ready to meet people you may never forget.

Join GoTEN for a unique trip focused on presence, friendship, and making initial connections in a sensitive part of the world.

This is not a traditional evangelism or outreach trip. Participants will enter as tourists and connect naturally with people through everyday activities such as excursions, parks, crafts, food, recreation, and sports. Our goal is to listen, learn, build trust, and create opportunities for relationships that long-term workers can continue developing after the team returns home. The team will also spend intentional time with long-term workers who often serve in isolated and challenging circumstances. Your presence will provide encouragement, connection, prayer, and Christian community—reminding these workers that they are known, supported, and not alone.

This trip is a good fit for people who are:

• Flexible and comfortable with changing plans
• Adventurous and willing to try unfamiliar things
• Natural encouragers and relationship-builders
• Equipped with a pioneering spirit
• Thoughtful photographers who can follow security and privacy guidelines
• Willing to serve quietly without needing immediate or visible results

Participants should be prepared for warm weather, considerable walking, excursions, and a moderate level of physical exertion. Cultural sensitivity, discretion, patience, and the ability to follow team leadership are essential.

Because of the sensitive nature of this opportunity, the specific location and additional details will be shared with qualified applicants during the application process.

Go somewhere few people go. Build friendships with people few Christians ever meet. Help open doors for relationships that can last long after you come home.

The Island Impact Team is an opportunity to serve among one of the world’s least-reached populations. You’ll travel alongside experienced GoTEN leaders and spend your days meeting people, experiencing the culture, and creating natural opportunities for friendship.

This won’t look like a typical mission trip. Because we are serving in a sensitive part of the world, our team will travel as tourists and spend time where people naturally gather. You might join an excursion, play soccer or other sports, visit a park, share a meal, do crafts with kids, explore a neighborhood, or simply sit down for a conversation.

The goal is simple: meet people and build relationships.

A conversation you begin could become a friendship that a long-term worker continues. A family you meet could become connected to someone who lives there. Your willingness to listen, learn, laugh, play, and spend time with people can help create opportunities for the Gospel that continue long after your trip is over.

You’ll also spend time with long-term workers serving in a place where following Jesus can feel lonely and isolated. Sometimes your impact is simply showing up—sharing a meal, praying together, listening to their stories, encouraging them, and reminding them that they are part of something bigger.

What You’ll Do

• Connect — Meet local students, young adults, families, and kids through everyday activities.
• Explore — Experience the islands through excursions, food, recreation, neighborhoods, and local culture.
• Build Relationships — Start friendships that long-term workers can continue after you leave.
• Encourage — Spend time with workers who live and serve in challenging and isolated environments.
• Learn — Discover what it looks like to live, work, and share your faith cross-culturally in a place where very few people know Jesus.
• Pray — See the people and places firsthand and learn how to pray specifically for an unreached nation.

Is This Trip for You?

You don’t need to be an experienced missionary or have all the right words. We’re looking for college students who are willing to show up, be flexible, meet new people, and step outside their comfort zone.

This trip is especially suited for students who are adventurous, relational, curious about other cultures, willing to try unfamiliar things, and comfortable serving without always seeing immediate results. You should be prepared for warm weather, lots of walking, changing plans, and a moderate level of physical activity.

Most importantly, come ready to learn. You may go hoping to make an impact on an unreached people—and discover that God uses the experience to make an impact on you as well.

Because we’ll be serving in a sensitive location, specific details about the country and our work will be shared with qualified applicants during the application process.