Short Term Trips

THIS TEAM IS FULL. This trip is a NoChild Kenya Staff Retreat designed to encourage and love on the NoChild staff who work tirelessly to provide a safe place for the children in Kenya. This team will also visit and update profiles of High School Students who attend boarding schools throughout Kenya.

This team will travel deep into the Kenyan bush to meet the women of Pokot to encourage, educate and empower them and support the ministry activities to change the detrimental practices that oppress girls. They will also be supporting the National Zero Tolerance Day which speaks out against FGM.

THIS TEAM IS FULL. Since 2000, Kensington has partnered with Christ’s Evangelical Mission in Dowlaiswaram, India. Together we have provided medical care, education, teaching and Bible training, given care to widows and orphans, and helped to spread the hope that comes with the message of Jesus Christ to these marginalized people.

This team of young adults will be traveling to Las Vegas to work alongside the Verve Church to learn about loving others while doing service projects for the community. The cost of the trip is $900, with $50 due at application.

THIS TEAM IS FULL. This team will travel to Nepal to encourage, love and train staff members who care for young women who have been rescued from human trafficking. In addition, this team will visit be able to visit some of the girls in the program and encourage and empower them to fulfill their dreams.

Men will be hiking to visit and spend time with the staff at Our Daughters International. Taking time to learn about what they do in the war against human trafficking. The total cost of this trip is $3,800

This team of men will visit multiple regions in the Holyland, connecting the stories of the Bible with the path that were walked on. They will hike, walk, visit various types of sites on this short-term experiential trip. In addition, they plan to partner with some local church movements in the West Bank region and serve alongside our Palestinian neighbors. This trip will also include some unique Jewish traditions, some messianic, and \ some traditional. “The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out of the inner journey. The inner journey is the interpretation of the meaning and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.” – Thomas Merton The cost of this trip is $4,000.

This high school team will be working with local churches helping with building and service projects, working with kids camps, and putting on sports clinics. The cost of this trip is $2,000.00 with a $200.00 deposit due at application. The cost does not include immunizations.

This unique learning adventure will help you discover your God-given identity, hear from God, and how to engage your community and workplace with Jamie Winship in a beautiful Caribbean setting. The trip cost will be $3,500 with $300 due at application.

THIS TEAM IS FULL. This team, in partnership with Africa Christian Ministries (ACM), seeks to address the spiritual and physical needs of the people of eSikhawini, South Africa. For many years Mercy Mafu and the ACM team have worked closely with children and adults of KwaZulu-Natal region. The medical outreach team will provide six medical clinics and assist in various activities with student ministries and church services. The cost of this trip is $4,400.00 which includes deposit of $400.00 at the time of application. This cost does not include immunizations.

This group of young adults will travel to the Dominican Republic to work with our partner organization GO Ministries. The team will work with the local church to put on sports camps for local students in the community. They will also do local service projects to help the local church. The cost of the trip is $2,000 with $200 due at application.

This team of men will be traveling to Kenya to participate in village evangelism, helping with water initiatives and hiking in the mountains.

This trip is geared toward people who are educators or people who have a passion for education. The team will visit high schools in Kenya where children who are part of our NoChild Sponsorship initiative attend. We’ll see the successes and challenges of high school students, encourage principles and staff, experience class with a student, and provide a celebration for our school at Kauriong Children’s Home.

This team will travel deep into the remote areas of Kenya to visit three children's homes among the Pokot people. The team is tasked with updating the nochild sponsorship information for 850 children. In addition, we will learn about the Pokot culture, meet and encourage the staff at each home, and spend time with the children, as the liason between the children and their sponsors. If you currently sponsor a child, or would like to do so in the future, this is a great trip to learn more about their lives, and possibly even meet your primary school child. Both men and women are needed for this team! Cost of the trip is $4,250 with $400 due at application.

As your team members enter into the lives of others and build relationships with the people of Cincinnati, they’ll experience God working through them at projects such as these: Assist a feeding ministry that serves over 8000 meals to kids across Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati daily. You will be helping prepare food for kids as well as interacting with these kids in games and arts and crafts. Help with day-to-day needs of a Christian camp including helping in the kitchen with meal service, cleaning, filling water coolers, painting and landscaping. Brighten senior's day at the elderly center! You'll be visiting, doing yard work, window washing, planting flowers, leading sing-a-longs and exercises and doing some light painting. Teach inner city girls dance! Mentor these girls through dance, no experience needed-you'll get lessons. Assist with planning and implementation of a youth program for ages 6-13, including creative arts, physical education, education, devotions and lunch. Bring lunch to a park for children that have been identified as living in poverty. You'll also have the opportunity to read and do other activities with these children. Assist with planning and implementation of a youth program for ages 6-13, including creative arts, physical education, education, devotions and lunch.

As your team members enter into the lives of others and build relationships with the people of Cincinnati, they’ll experience God working through them at projects such as these: Assist a feeding ministry that serves over 8000 meals to kids across Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati daily. You will be helping prepare food for kids as well as interacting with these kids in games and arts and crafts. Help with day-to-day needs of a Christian camp including helping in the kitchen with meal service, cleaning, filling water coolers, painting and landscaping. Brighten senior's day at the elderly center! You'll be visiting, doing yard work, window washing, planting flowers, leading sing-a-longs and exercises and doing some light painting. Teach inner city girls dance! Mentor these girls through dance, no experience needed-you'll get lessons. Assist with planning and implementation of a youth program for ages 6-13, including creative arts, physical education, education, devotions and lunch. Bring lunch to a park for children that have been identified as living in poverty. You'll also have the opportunity to read and do other activities with these children. Assist with planning and implementation of a youth program for ages 6-13, including creative arts, physical education, education, devotions and lunch.

This group of high school and college age students will travel to Pourdy, MO to be trained as camp counselors for a week-long camp for people with special needs. This team will put aside their own personal desires and needs to pair up with campers and unconditionally love, accept, and care for all of their needs during the week. The cost of the trip is $650 with $50 due at application.

A Kensington-led group will be serving in Costa Rica and the surrounding area. Our focus includes a house build construction project, medical clinic and kid’s camp, supporting a local pastor’s efforts to bring God’s love to the physically and spiritually poor in the region. The type of work performed will be determined, in part, by the composition of the group members, their spiritual gifts and the need of the church we work with. This is KCC’s 19th year serving in Costa Rica.

This team will travel to the Pokot tribe in Kenya. They will be working different children located throughout the different homes in Pokot. The team will teach them how to discover their God-given identities and help them hear from God.

This team will travel to remote areas throughout Kenya to provide medical care for those in need and share the gospel with people that they meet throughout the villages.

This team will travel to two of our global partners - Nepal and India. During the Nepal portion of the trip they will be working with girls from local villages who are at-risk of being trafficked by providing leadership/empowerment skills, encouraging the girls to continue with their education and updating girls who are already part of the NoChild sponsorship program. The team will also have the opportunity to visit and encourage the staff of our partner in Nepal. They will then travel to India where the team will be connecting with the children of the Grace Children's Home (GCH), updating the children’s sponsorship information and photos, and be an encouragement to the CEM staff. Sponsors may have the opportunity to visit with their sponsored children in both Nepal and India (contingent upon several factors).