This list of mission experiences is not meant to be an exhaustive list. Rather, it is a list to get your mind thinking about some possibilities. You might also consider connecting with an established mission organization for your first few experiences to gain exposure to even more mission ideas.

• Rest home, convalescent hospital

• Rake leaves or shovel snow at the homes of senior citizens

• Shut in ministry in your community, where the elderly may be confined to their homes

• “Meal on Wheels” program, delivering food to the elderly

• Being a shuttle service for the elderly

• Adopt a grandparent: Many “grandparents” are living away from their relatives and would welcome the company and attention

• Do a “Senior Appreciation Night” for the elderly at a convalescent home or for those within your church

• Visit the “unvisited” in hospitals

• Visit a children’s hospital, even a children’s cancer ward

• Work with the hospital volunteer organization

• Send cards, flowers, gifts, or books to the sick from your church

• Run errands, fix food, clean house, catch up on chores, or baby sit for those who are ill or hospitalized

• “Adopt a Sick Person”, whether through your church, or organized through a local hospital

• Visit juvenile halls

• Provide worship services for juvenile halls

• Work with Prison Fellowship to sponsor “Project Angel Tree” in your church, bringing Christmas presents to families and children of inmates (To find more info on this project visit www.angeltree.org.)

• Sponsor a child through a relief organization like World Vision or Compassion International

• Provide help at a local soup kitchen or rescue mission

• Participate in the World Vision “30-Hour Famine” project.

• Hand out food and blankets in the inner city

• Pass out food and blankets in a locale known for homelessness in your area

• Sponsor a “Run for the Hungry” 5K or 10K, donate the proceeds to a rescue mission

• Start a “Food Cupboard” or a “Clothing Closet” in your church for the homeless and hungry

• Provide a summer Vacation Bible School or Day Camp through your church

• Provide a job employment bank for teenagers in the community

• Run a recreational sports league in your community for children

• Locate a run-down apartment complex in your area and do an afternoon children’s ministry program

• Do a toy collection drive for underprivileged kids in your area

• Provide a free baby-sitting service for church members and people they may know in the community

• Adopt a park or a street to clean up and maintain

• Work with a crisis hotline in your area or an organization reaching out to those in crisis

• Call your local police department to find out more about what the needs are in your particular community

• Provide a recreational sports league in conjunction with an inner city church

• Provide a summer Vacation Bible School in conjunction with an inner city church

• Provide a monthly service at a rescue mission

• Provide an afternoon ministry to latchkey kids

• Work with the city on their graffiti removal program

• Link up with a big brother/big sister program (To find more info on this project visit www.bbbsa.org.) 

• Link up with groups ministering to unwed mothers in the inner city

• Evangelism in the inner city

• Indian reservations

• Construction of orphanage, camps, homes, churches

• Disaster and relief work

• Medical missionary efforts

• Work camps

• Sports camps

• Link up with Bible translators like Wycliffe Bible Translators (To find more info on this project visit www.wycliffe.net.) 

• Serve at a camp, whether a traditional camp, or a camp for underprivileged kids

• Inner city outreaches

• Work with groups like Habitat for Humanity (To find more info on this project visit www.habitat.org.)

Connect with an established mission organization doing mission work in another country.