Ten Days.
Fifteen Seats.
This is not a mission trip in the brochure sense. It is a vision trip in the exact sense: ten days in northern Thailand seeing the work your prayers and gifts sustain — the training, the churches, the schools, and the leaders who run them. You will come home unable to un-see it. That is the point.
The Shape of ItWhere Ten Days Go.
| Base | What happens |
|---|---|
| Chiang Mai | The team bases at the Marriott in Chiang Mai — the city where our founding partner, the Servant Leadership Ministry Foundation, headquarters its work. |
| The Conference | Participation in a leadership conference alongside SLMIF — the gathering where pastors and leaders from across the region are taught, encouraged, and sent. You sit where the training actually happens. |
| Omkoi | Worship and preaching at the church in Omkoi — a congregation in the hill country southwest of Chiang Mai. Pastors on the team may be invited to preach; everyone worships with believers few Americans will ever meet. |
| KKBBSC | A visit to the Kawthoolei Karen Baptist Bible School & College — the institution that has carried biblical training to the Karen church of the borderlands since 2010. |
| Chiang Rai | A day with the LTC boarding schools — the children, the teachers, and the long vision behind educating the next generation of the hill communities. |
Leadership conference · SLMIF HQ
Worship & preaching
The next generation
The PostureHow We Travel.
Short-term trips can serve a long-term partnership, and they can wreck one. We travel under three rules, stated up front:
- The field leads. Dr. Yupho and his team set the schedule, the access, and the boundaries. We are guests in their work, not inspectors of it.
- We go to see and to serve, not to star. No projects invented so visitors feel useful; no photographs that cost a child or a pastor their dignity — or, in sensitive areas, their safety.
- The trip is the beginning, not the event. Every participant returns to a specific role: praying for named leaders, sponsoring, or carrying the vision into their own congregation.
Who Should ComeThe Right Fifteen.
Pastors and church leaders weighing a congregation-level partnership. Missions-committee members who need to see before their church commits. Sponsors who want to meet the work they fund. And believers sensing that their part in the Great Commission might be standing behind those who go. You do not need to be a preacher; you need to be teachable, healthy enough for hill-country travel, and willing to come home changed into responsibility.
InterestJoin the Interest List.
Interest is reviewed by ENDS leadership, and a short conversation follows. When dates and cost are confirmed with our Thailand partner, the fifteen seats are filled from this list — and preparation begins together, months before wheels-up.
A church can sponsor a seat for its pastor or a missions-team member. Note it in the form or through the contact page.