Breaking it Down... What You Will Be Doing

As much as possible, the Vision Team will fly out together from an international airport in the US and arrive together in one of China’s major cities. You will spend two days adjusting to the new time zone and bonding with teammates. Then you will fly into a rural province in the western part of China, where you will spend five or six days facilitating English conversations using a prepared curriculum. Your class will consist of about ten students, who are English teachers of high school and middle school students.  You will teach for three hours every morning and then spend time with the students in the afternoons and evenings in various activities.

At the end of the teaching program, the team will fly back to the original city, where you can rest up, prayer-walk at historical sites, meet long-term Christian workers (tentmakers) and some local believers that they work with.  There may also be opportunity to visit an orphanage and other Christian ministries.

Within just two weeks, you will have been exposed to a wide breadth of experiences with much to reflect upon and offer back to God. Perhaps you will have caught a vision for the future. Perhaps your outlook on life will be altered. Perhaps you will have a new sense of purpose to live for God in your everyday work when you return to the States. Whatever the case may be, you will not return the same as when you left!

“God taught me to release my dependence on financial planning and security. Seeing the impoverished local people brought this issue to the forefront. If they are able to live happily in the absence of financial security, why can’t my life be even more joyful since I am in the family of God?!”
-- Johnny, Age 27.