Rocky Mountain Summer Mission

Location: Front Range, Colorado

Term: 2 Weeks

Dates: June 17 – July 1

Cost: $2,700

Mission Distinctives:

Backpacking
Climbing
Evangelism
On campus outreach
Serving the local community

Come and experience adventure, the outdoors and campus outreach on this unique summer mission!

Spend two weeks exploring the beauty of Colorado and the Rocky Mountains and serving on campus’ around Boulder, CO. Learn how to effectively share your faith and engage in spiritual conversation with other college students on campus. You will use the outdoors as a draw for outreach, inviting students on local day trips such as rock climbing and hiking. Experience how these activities can be a bridge to the gospel.

You will also get to experience a multi-day backpacking trip, rock climbing, rafting, hiking and camping, all while learning about yourself and your relationship with God through these experiences. You’ll be invited to be fully known and learn to live life in a grace and truth community. Leave with next steps for personal and spiritual growth and tools to build relationships and share the gospel in your context.

There isn’t anything more powerful than experiencing a taste of the kind of life God created us to live. We were made to be known and to know others, to experience grace and truth, to live a life of adventure and know God and His creation. In fact, we believe it can change the course of your life.

Join us and press pause on your everyday life to get away and experience how we were created to live!

Questions? Contact Courtney Campbell.

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Lake Tahoe Outdoor Leadership Summer Mission

Location: Lake Tahoe, California

Term: 3 Weeks

Dates: June 13 – July 5, 2024

Cost: $2,200

Mission Distinctives:

Leadership Training
Outdoor Skill Training
Backpacking
Rock Climbing
Paddle Boarding

Join Lifelines in this new experience tailored to outdoor recreation majors and/or students who want to lead in the outdoors. This is an exciting opportunity to grow in your outdoor leadership skills and learn how to apply them in a ministry context.

Set in the beauty of Lake Tahoe, you will learn practical outdoor leadership principles and small group facilitation skills and then get to practice them in a ministry setting with other college students on a local Cru Summer Mission. Experience a multi-day backpacking trip, rock climbing, paddle boarding, and hiking while growing in a grace and truth community. You will learn how to connect with the Creator in His creation and grow personally and spiritually through these experiences. You will also assist in strategic outreach and evangelism alongside other students at the Lake Tahoe Summer Mission. Our goal is that you will leave with increased knowledge of outdoor skills, facilitating learning experiences, and the ability to use the outdoors in ministry.

Join us for an experience that will equip you to see how the outdoors can impact the world for Jesus Christ!

Questions? Contact Stephanie Bethel or Nick Topor.

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Anchorage, Alaska Summer Mission

Location: Anchorage, Alaska

Term: 3 Weeks

Dates: June 14 – July 1, 2024

Cost: $2,700

Mission Distinctives:

Discipleship life groups
Evangelism
Backpacking
Alaskan cultural training

Come to Alaska and experience the untouched wilderness and connect with Jesus in community this summer. For just a few weeks, come see not just the long beautiful days of summer, but allow God to use you to bring hope to the hopeless with the Gospel.

You will have a chance to be discipled and trained to effectively share your faith with those in Anchorage. Live with 24 other students and experience a grace and truth community. You’ll also have a chance to dive into the beauty of Alaska with help from our Lifelines staff, who are experienced outdoor guides. Go on a backpacking trip (no experience needed!), learn about life and faith as you hike, fish and grow spiritually as you learn through these outdoor activities. You’ll see the midnight sun, catch a salmon, see a moose and be stretched in ways that will leave you longing for more.

Join Cru and Lifelines on a summer of faith and adventure that will only leave you longing for more of Jesus as you truly live by faith.

Questions? Contact Andy Dwyer

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West Asia, Middle East Outdoor Summer Mission

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Location: West Asia, Middle East

Term: 2 Weeks

Dates: May 13 – May 27, 2024

Cost: $3,900

Mission Distinctives:

Cross-Cultural Evangelism
Experiential Learning
Hiking
Leadership Development

Join Lifelines this summer for a great adventure in a large Middle Eastern nation, in both the city and the outdoors!

In this beautiful, unreached country, we will creatively talk with students around several campus’ to learn about their culture and share our lives about knowing Christ. We will use invitations to outdoor activities as an avenue for student outreach, then we will engage in spiritual conversations while we hike, climb or go caving in the beauty of nature nearby. You will also get to experience the same and additional outdoor adventures, all while learning about yourself and your relationship with God through these experiences. You’ll be invited to be fully known and learn to live life in a grace and truth community. Leave with next steps for personal and spiritual growth and tools to build relationships and share the gospel in your context.

If you like the outdoors, adventure and engaging with new cultures, this is the trip for you!

Experience ministry like you have never experienced it before. Come and experience the beauty of this Middle Eastern Culture and see how God will grow you as an individual and use you for His Kingdom purposes.

Questions? Contact Mark Brown or Amy Geist

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