Immersion Experiences

Are you a lead pastor or missions committee member who wants to learn how to help your congregation get involved strategically in cross-cultural missions?

Do you want a mission trip that goes beyond voluntourism and is strategically designed to really help the long-term missionaries?

Are you seeking a trip experience designed to help you put your skills, training and passion to work in support of the PILAS programs?

If you answered YES! to any of these questions, then PILAS is the place for you!

A PILAS IMMERSION EXPERIENCE can make a lasting impact on your life and the lives of others as you experience what a life of vocational ministry or missions looks like.

A PILAS IMMERSION EXPERIENCE provides a memorable cross-cultural missions experience as visitors live and work alongside full-time missionaries, working in in a multi-faceted ministry, gaining understanding of cross-culture relationship building, and serving others and sharing the love of Christ.

Our hope is that, through this experience, visitors will consider the mission field as they discern God’s calling on their lives.

Or perhaps this experience will inspire them to encourage their families, friends and churches to support the ministry programs or propel them into missional living and service back in their home country.

HOW YOU’LL HELP

  • Develop and strengthen relationships with students and their families, communities and local schools.
  • Teach at the local education facilities to strengthen our partnership.
  • Help the local education facilities with small repairs or hosting an event.
  • Host a community event.
  • Support CLUB CONEXIÓN (up to 150 students in 4 different villages): teach English, Math, life skills, life skills, values, Bible lessons, health, family planning, games and activities, etc.
  • Support the PILAS LEARNING & FUN CLUB program by actively planning and participating in the month’s theme reaching over 185 students from grades 3 to 6.
  • Encourage students and missionaries: daily Bible studies, prayer, and worship.
  • Help missionaries strengthen friendships and partnerships.
  • Listen to, pray for and provide counsel to youth and adults suffering from physical abuse, sickness, alcoholism, lack of food, unemployment, financial difficulties, etc.
  • Encourage and support the in-field missionaries and their team.

The PILAS programs are highly relational. The ability to communicate in the local language is truly an advantage in work and at play. It enables one to quickly integrate with the local community and gain a better understanding of the culture.

PILAS IMMERSION EXPERIENCES typically last one to six weeks however there are options to serve longer-term.

Preference will be given to applicants who effectively speak Spanish.

Persons wishing to serve as a mid-term intern must be 19 years old or older.

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