Emmanuel International

Define ‘Short Term’!   June 5, 2025  

Romans 12: 5  “So in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.”

One of the great delights in Emmanuel International is the opportunity for short-term mission trips.  ‘Short-term’ is sometimes hard to define.  Is a person wanting to go for a year?  Or three months?  Perhaps 1-2 weeks?  There is room for every participant, no matter how long the term of service.  Any one of EI’s 7 Affiliate country offices is willing to welcome one or more people who would like to visit, to observe the work on the ground, to participate in this work. 

The trips are usually 2 to 3 weeks, sometimes even just a week.  Often the distance and cost of reaching the destination will determine the length of stay. 
Opportunities include a mix of practical work and spiritual outreach.  Some teams have gone to host kids’ Bible programs.  Others have gone to preach or teach in a conference.  Very often the team will be involved in building, painting, digging gardens, teaching a sewing class, to name just a few.

More important than the tasks are the relationships, the kindnesses, the experiences of being with people from another country.  A mission trip provides a unique opportunity to experience how God is working in a very different part of the world.  When one goes with an open heart to the people being ‘served,’ generally it is the heart of the ‘servant’, your heart,
that is most touched by this investment of your time.

What is your talent, your interest?  There is an opportunity for you!

Where it all started

September 12, 2024

The Letters of Patent declaring Emmanuel Relief and Rehabilitation International to be a recognized charitable organization is dated September 11, 1975.  September 12, 2024 begins our 50th year, our Jubilee year!  In the Bible, every 50th year was a reset year, a year of rest. The Jubilee was a year of acknowledging Sovereign God, His grace, His provision, His heart for His people.  

With Samuel of old, on the 12th of September 2024, join us in raising our Ebenezer; for truly, ‘hitherto has the LORD helped us.” 

 I Samuel 7:12:  “Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far has the LORD helped us.”