Family Mission Trips with STEM
STEM loves to help families serve together in Jesus’ name!
Every member of your family has a strategic role in God’s Great Commission. Every member. No matter how young or old. No matter how much or how little life experience. God uses every willing heart in His kingdom work.
Families can join just about any “open” STEM Team. Through the mission field “classroom” of hands-on learning and serving, a STEM short-term mission can help your family experience first-hand God’s heart for the nations. And what a great opportunity for homeschool families to join together in learning and mission. God has prepared your family as a unique harvest force (that is, any family who is available to touch the world with God’s love and salvation, while modeling what a redeemed family can be).
We've got a place for your family to join or form a STEM Team and minister for 1, 2, or 3 weeks in any one of more than a dozen locations, domestic or international.
Discounts Are Available if Needed
Families who join an international team and pay for three family members in full receive a 25% discount for up to two additional members (i.e., on the 4th and 5th family members) on the "STEM Team Fee" portion of the total cost. Families are defined as parent(s) plus their biological or adoptive children, provided the children are financial dependents living in the family home.
Families who join a domestic team and pay for three family members in full receive a 20% discount for up to two additional members (i.e., the 4th and 5th family members) on the "STEM Team Fee" portion of the total cost.
"Andrew helped hand out crayons and such during VBS, and of course [he loved] spending time with other kids (Andrew still talks about our first time in the Dominican Republic). What was great about our most recent time was the intergenerational part. We really have been so blessed as a family by these opportunities to serve and I think it has been positive on the field as well."
—Mom from STEM Teams #431 and #516
Here's what families who’ve been on a STEM outreach say:
- I liked when we helped other people with their food [at a neighborhood food shelf]. —8-year-old
- My favorite part was teaching English to a Somali lady. —7-year-old
- I could help and have fun at the same time. —7-year-old
- The most valuable part was helping my daughter form important life experiences. —Mom
- The kids were given wonderful experiences that will affect them forever. —Children’s Pastor
Why parents say they take their children on STEM teams:
- To give the kids and parents a way to serve together
- To broaden our children’s perspective
- To stretch our comfort zone as a family
- For my girls to learn there are people who don’t have what they do
- To teach them that in this world of ‘Don’t talk to strangers,’ sometimes it’s okay
- To show needy people there are those who do care and are willing to help
Call STEM toll-free 1-877-STEM-646 or e-mail STEM to learn more.
Have you read Ann Dunagan's great book, The Mission Minded Child? It's a must-read for mission-minded families! Watch for her new book, Mission-Minded Families, coming in the summer of 2008.
