What is a Discovery Tour?
Two weeks of exploring communities in another part of the world, spending time with missionaries and community members, and challenging yourself to see the world through different eyes.
Each tour includes:
- Orientation and debriefing
- Time spent with a missionary who will guide you on the journey
- Visits to CRWRC partner ministries
- Time spent with a local Christian family
- A time of service, giving back to one of the communities you will visit
- A financial donation to support the ministry of our partners
- Opportunities to be surrounded by God’s creation
- Worship services with our brothers and sisters
- Opportunities to wrestle together about complex issues, like justice and poverty
- A challenge to take what you have learned and incorporate it into your life back at home
Which Tours are Available?
HIV and AIDS Discovery Tour: April 15-29, 2012 to Kenya & Uganda
Application Deadline: February 1, 2012
Through the HIV and AIDS Discovery Tour, you’ll experience first hand what CRWRC is doing to stop the spread of AIDS, and connect with people, families, and communities who are eager to share their experiences with you. The result? You’ll discover hope—and be encouraged to take action on AIDS in your own community and around the world.
This two-week journey will take you, accompanied by three CRWRC partner staff, to church services where congregants are tested for HIV, to village health clinics, to homes where CRWRC’s trained health assistants care for people living with AIDS and give respite to caregivers, and to communities where neighbors support neighbors with community-wide compassion. Find out for yourself the amazing ways that God is working in the lives of people living with AIDS in Africa. It will change your life. Click the following links for more information.
Estimated Cost: $2,500 USD plus $2,000 USD for flight and insurance, dependent on point of departure.
How Do I Apply?
- Read the Welcome Letter
- Apply online or print out the Application Form and mail it with your $250 USD deposit to:
United States:
CRWRC Attn: Mary Dykstra
2850 Kalamazoo Ave. SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49560
Canada:
CRWRC Attn: Iona Buisman
3475 Mainway
P.O. Box 5070, STN LCD 1
Burlington ON L7R 3Y8
Questions? Email globalvolunteer@crwrc.org or call 1-800-552-7972 ext. 4162 (US) or 1-800-730-3490 ext. 321 (Canada)