Short-Term Opportunities
Interested in coming for a week to as much as a few months? We work with Pioneers Edge programs in the USA and the UK but also individuals or groups from other mobilization bases of Pioneers around the world. If you are unsure which mobilization base handles your country, please contact us. In addition to Edge we welcome groups from churches to come at any time of the year. Please contact us for more information.
Edge TeamsWhether you live in the USA or the United Kingdom or somewhere else, if you live near a Pioneers mobilization base then you have probably heard of their short-term summer missions program called the Edge. Each summer hundreds of students experience this unique opportunity to work with Pioneers missionaries around the world.
As part of your summer edge program to Germany you will have the opportunity to survey students at the University of Heidelberg about their spiritual backgrounds and share your faith with many of them. You will also help run childen and youth camps with the youth organization and growing church - the CVJM. You will help with the construction of a missions loft at the church so that students from around the world can come and stay and serve. You will also have the opportunity to witness and encourage refugees at a local refugee camp and assist the Heidelberg ProLife organization, the Birke. Running Sunday church and weekend youth services and sightseeing will round out your summer with us. You'll have a chance to see Heidelberg, Mannheim, many smaller towns in our area as well as experience an overnight trip to Munich to see the city and the Dachau concentration camp. |
Church Groups & Independent TeamsIn summer of 2012 we welcomed a great group from the First Baptist Church in Watkinsville, Georgia who stayed and worked at the CVJM for eleven days. Their goal was to finish an indoor football (soccer) field for the church and youth in the area to use which they did to the excitment of everyone in the community.
In addition the team enjoyed evangelizing at the University of Heidelberg and downtown area, volunteering at the local ProLife organization (die Birke) and running the Sunday service where members preached, gave testimonies, or helped in leading worship. They also shared their testimonies at a youth talent show and a midweek prayer service. The team also got the opportunity to canoe down a local stream, take a boat cruise down the Neckar river into Heidelberg, visit the castle there, go shopping and eat lots of eis (ice cream) and doner kebabs. Each night church members would come to the CVJM for dinner (or invite the team into their homes) and nightly fellowships of games or football on the big screen (EuroCup). To find out more about bringing your church, contact us. |