Our Philosophy of Missions -- One of a Kind!

Missions Partnerships
When your group attends a mission trip with Thirst Missions, you aren’t just going on another mission trip. You will be partnering with a local church and pastor who are looking for a mission team with your chosen ministries to serve alongside.

You choose the ministries from our menu of 14 available options, and we place your group in partnership with a community, church, and pastor who have identified these ministries as needs they have.

You will be the only mission team to partner with this church and pastor in 2012 and beyond. Your group will be a huge support to the pastor and an encouragement to the congregation you serve alongside. Our trips are about quality over quantity—quality of ministry, quality of relationships, and quality of congregations and pastors you will be partnering with. These are real pastors on the frontlines in a third-world country making a real difference for Christ. They need your encouragement desperately, and you will be serving alongside a local congregation and in a community with real needs. These pastors are asking for teams to partner with them and would feel so blessed to work with you in ministry. Once these congregations find out you will be coming, they spend months praying for the trip and preparing for your group to arrive. It is a huge deal for them. What a blessing to experience the world-wide body of Christ! It is our prayer that all will be blessed through the friendships and partnerships made through ministry on your Thirst Missions trip.

Belizean Staff
One unique aspect of Thirst Mission trips is that our staff during trips is primarily composed of people from Belize. Angel Castillo, a pastor from Orange Walk, is our Director of Belize Operations and has been a partner in setting up, hosting, overseeing, and following up afterward, during dozens and dozens of mission trips. The rest of our Belizean staff have a wealth of experience in ministry and in hosting mission teams as well. They provide a unique combination of expertise on Belize and it's culture and customs, while providing for a safe, fun, healthy, and life-changing trip for both the host churches in Belize and the groups ministering from North America. You will enjoy getting to know the Belizeans who are leading your trip and you may find they quickly become lifelong friends.

Long-term Partnerships
One aspect to keep in mind for the future is that we have experience with churches from North America developing long-term partnerships with congregations in Belize. Some churches have gone back for 5+ years straight to the same village, worked with the same pastor, and invested in their partner church. Thirst Missions is excited to be a part of lining up and following through on these long-term partnerships. If this type of longer-term ministry is part of your philosophy of ministry, we would love to work with you to partner long term or short term in ministry to the same community and congregation in Belize.