Missions at Living Streams
Living Streams is heavily invested in missions both locally and abroad. Ten percent of every dollar that comes in to Living Streams is invested in local and foreign missions. Those funds go to supporting dozens of missionaries and organizations, planting churches, facilitating local outreaches, and so much more. We believe that missions (both local and abroad) are an important part of God’s call for most, if not all believers.
Email missions@livingstreams.org if you have any questions or are interested in being sent out as a long-term missionary by Living Streams.
Missions Internship
Our summer internship has 9 different tracks. The missions track requires interns to be available all day Tuesdays, Thursday mornings, and 7:00am-1:00pm on Sundays for services. The program runs for 12 weeks from the beginning of May through the end of July.
Missions interns will spend 4-8 weeks in Phoenix and the remainder of their internship working in a mission field. Mission fields may include: Local Homeless Outreach (Phoenix), Belize, Ecuador, Peru, SE Asia (anti-trafficking), or Puerto Peñasco, Mexico. Travel, food, and lodging expenses may apply.
Email missions@livingstreams.org if you are interested in the Missions track of our summer internship.
Upcoming Mission Trips
Click below for more information, to make a donation, or to register/apply.
Check back often for more trips as we update this list throughout the year.
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Trip Leaders:
Jed Morris jedcomeback@gmail.comApply: For more information or to express interest in this trip, please email the trip leader(s) or missions@livingstreams.org
Where: Phoenix, AZ, Arizona Christian University Campus
Cost: Free
When: Morning December 27th until after lunch on December 31st, 2023
Who Can Attend: Anyone 18+
Team Size: 50
Overview: Run Home Camps is a camp for elementary aged foster boys. We spend time with the boys, play baseball, and show them the love of Jesus. There is a role for just about anyone on this camp. We need some volunteers to come and stay over night, some to spend the day at camp helping in various ways, and some to stop in for a more limited amount of time. Some of these roles include: Camp Mom- Read stories & nuturing; Grandparents- Hand out snacks, socialize; Assistant Coach (Male Volunteer)- Help relieve full time coaches, and mentor the boys; Music/Theater- Engaging worship, skits, etc.; Birthday Party Volunteers- Set up & tear down the birthday party, engage with kids; Bullpen/Unclue/Aunt- Be around part time to assist in various ways.
Background checks provided by Run Home Camp. www.runhomecamps.org
Covid Travel Requirements: None
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Trip Leaders:
Bethany Stanton bethanystanton12@gmail.comRegister: Click here to register.
Where: Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point), Mexico
Cost: $160
A family discount of $25/person is available if 3 or more people from your immediate family register for this trip. **This discount will be automatically applied when you register all applicants at the same time.When: February 23-25, 2024
Who Can Register: This trip is open to all ages. Any minors not yet in High School must be accompanied by an adult family member. It is not uncommon to have people ranging from toddlers all the way to seniors on this trip.
Team Size: 25-50
Overview: This is a great trip for both experienced missionaries as well as first time missions trip attendees. Students, individuals, or entire families are welcome to join!
We’ll be partnering with a christian community center in an impoverished neighborhood of Puerto Peñasco. Our time will be spent facilitating youth and children’s events, doing construction, and partnering with local ministries as they share the gospel and disciple their neighbors.
Covid Travel Requirements: None
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Trip Leaders:
Nate Rupert nate@livingstreams.orgApply: Click here to apply.
Donate: Click here to donate to this trip.
Where: Gales Point, Belize
Cost: $1500-1900
When: February 2024, Possibly 2/4-10
Length of Trip: 10 days
Who Can Apply: Anyone willing to work.
Team Size: 10
Overview: We will be doing construction work on the village parsonage, next to the church. We’ll be installing plumbing, electrical, and hanging drywall.
Covid Travel Requirements: None
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Trip Leader: Kurt Cotter Kurt@livingstreams.org
When: March 1-3, 2024
Where: Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point) Mexico
Overview: Serving at and helping to facilitate a men’s conference in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico and serving at a local church on Sunday morning. *This trip is currently Closed
Team Size: 5-6
Donate: To donate to this trip, Click Here.
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Trip Leader:
Alec Seekins alec@livingstreams.orgApply: Click here to apply.
Donate: To donate to this trip, Click Here.
Where: S.E. Asia
Cost: $1700-$2000
When: May 2024
Length of Trip: 9-11 days
Who Can Apply: Any responsible adult who is willing to submit to a background check can apply. Men who apply must have been free of pornography for a minimum of one year.
Team Size: 5-10
Overview: We will be working with an anti-sex-trafficking ministry on a popular tourist island in S.E. Asia. This will involve outreach in red light districts, working with women who have left prostitution, and training & encouraging the ministry staff.
We’re especially interested in having someone join who has experience in cosmetology and/or hair styling and/or someone who could teach some self defense. If we have someone with cosmetology/hair experience, we may provide a workshop for women in a red light district to help equip them with life skills that could help them leave prostitution. If we have someone who can teach self defense, we will host a training for ministry staff and women who have left prostitution.
Covid Travel Requirements: None
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Trip Leaders:
Bethany Stanton bethanystanton12@gmail.com and Chloe Soltau Chloe.g@livingstreams.orgApply: Click here.
Donate: To donate to this trip, click here.
Where: Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Cost: $1900-$2200
When: June 8-15 2024
Who Can Apply: Anyone over the age of 14. If under 14 we must get approval and you need to have a parent with you.
Team Size: 15-25
Overview: We will be going into two different churches, providing free medical, dental and optical services along with a children's program and evangelism station.
Covid Travel Requirements: None
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Trip Leader:
Brittany Stockton britstockton@yahoo.comApply: Click here.
Donate: To donate to this trip, Click Here.
Where: Belize
Cost: $1800
When: June 2-9
Who Can Apply: Women
Team Size: 8-12
Overview: We will be helping to facilitate, and serve at, a Belizean women’s retreat. We will also be doing some work in the schools.
Covid Travel Requirements: None
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Trip Leaders:
Alec Seekins Alec@livingstreams.orgApply: https://azhope.com/scottsdale-bible-church/
Please also email missions@livingstreams.org to let us know that you have applied so we can connect you with other volunteers from Living Streams ChurchDonate: https://azhope.com/scottsdale-bible-church/
Where: Payson, AZ
Cost: Donation, suggested $600 raised
When: June 9-14, 2024
Who Can Apply: Any adult who is willing to submit to a background check.
Overview: Royal Family Kids Camp is a camp for elementary aged boys and girls who are or have been in the foster system.
We spend the week at Tonto Rim Christian Camp in Payson, AZ playing with, celebrating, and loving the campers. Days are full of activities, games, chapel times, cabin time, and running around in the woods with adventurous kids. It is an incredibly valuable time of ministry that makes a significant life-long impact on the kids.
There is a role for nearly everyone at RFKC. The largest need for volunteers is for “Cousins” or “Aunts/Uncles.” “Cousins” (counselors) will spend nearly all of there time dedicated to loving 1-2 specific campers. “Aunts/Uncles” are support for the Cousins. They spend their time helping out in whatever way necessary and are still able to engage relationally with the campers but to a slightly lesser extent that the Cousins.
There is a mandatory weekend training session that must be completed for both new as well as returning volunteers.
This trip is done in partnership with Scottsdale Bible Church, which administrates the camp. Living Streams attendees can email missions@livingstreams.org for information on how to apply, and to be connected with one another for the purpose of carpooling.
Covid Travel Requirements: None
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Trip Leader: Kurt Cotter Kurt@livingstreams.org
When: July 25-August 1, 2024
Where: Quito, Ecuador
Overview: A small team of men will go to Quito, & Riobamba, Ecuador to preach at a number of churches as well as at a men’s conference. This trip is currently closed.
Team Size: 3-5
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Trip Leaders:
Mario & Silvana Benevides mario@livingstreams.orgApply: Click here.
Donate: To donate to this trip, Click Here.
Where: Quito, Ecuador
Cost: $2000-$2200
When: August 4-10, 2024
Who Can Apply: People with leadership/ministry experience.
Team Size: 10
Overview: Attend and minister in a revival seminar together with the Verbo Manosca church in Quito, Ecuador.
Covid Travel Requirements: None
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Register: For more information or to express interest in this trip, please email the trip leader(s) or missions@livingstreams.org
Trip Leader: Josh Miller
jmiller820@gmail.comWhen: Fall 2024
Cost: $175
Where: Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point), Mexico
Overview: This is a great entry to missions! We will stay at a community center in Puerto Penasco, Mexico, as we serve the community. We will help with Young Life (a relational youth outreach), do some construction, and help out in youth and children's ministry.
Team Size: 10-40
Who Can Attend: Anyone with a valid passport, minors 8th grade or younger must be accompanied by an adult.
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Trip Leaders:
Brian & Yenny Stoor yennybravogiraldo@gmail.comApply: Click here.
Donate: To donate to this trip, Click Here.
Where: Cali, Colombia
Cost: $1800-$2000
When: October/November 2024
Length of Trip: 10 Days
Who Can Apply: Any adult 18+ who feels called. Previous travel and/or missions trips is recommended but not necessarily required to apply.
Team Size: 8-10
Overview: We will be working with a small local church in Cali, Colombia, which is an impoverished area of Colombia. We’ll be doing street outreach, prayer ministry, relational ministry, and helping with a few children’s foundations.
It is important to note that Cali, Colombia is a region that struggles with significant poverty and violence. While we will of course take safety very seriously, the risks of this trip are not negligible. If you don’t feel the Lord leading you to this trip, are not willing to adhere to the direction of the leadership, or have never traveled before, this trip might not be for you.
Covid Travel Requirements: None
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Trip Leader:
David Stockton, David@livingstreams.orgApply: Click here.
Donate: To donate to this trip, Click Here.
Where: Belize
Cost: $1750
When: October 20-27
Who Can Apply: Men
Team Size: 5-10
Overview: We will be serving at and helping to facilitate a Belizean men’s retreat as well as doing some construction work.
Covid Travel Requirements: None
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Trip Leaders:
Blake Romeo Blake@livingstreams.orgApply: Please reach out to Blake with questions regarding the development of this trip and when applications will open.
Donate: Check back later for a link to donate to or pay for this trip.
Where: Peru
Cost: $TBD
When: Fall 2024
Length of Trip: TBD
Who Can Apply: Anyone able to work with children and youth.
Team Size: 5-10
Overview: We will be serving at a missions conference for missionaries all over South America by caring for and discipling the children of the attending missionaries. The kids will range from Elementary School through High School.
Covid Travel Requirements: None
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Trip Leader: Kurt Cotter Kurt@livingstreams.org
When: Nov. 7-14, 2024
Where: Cuenca & El Oro, Ecuador
Overview: A small group of men from LSC preach and engage in healing ministry at a number of churches, open air meetings, and 2 men’s conferences. This trip is currently closed.
Team Size: 3-5
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Click here for more information.Click here to express interest.
Overview: Every month we help the poor in Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point), Mexico. Doctors and nurses triage and treat many people who otherwise might not receive medical attention. Rocky Point Medical Clinics was founded by Living Streams members George and Susie Stravros in 1998, and has grown into a large and fruitful ministry that continues to grow and serve the people of Puerto Peñasco. As this opportunity is ongoing, you will be on your own to coordinate transportation and potentially lodging. Email missions@livingstreams.org for help in coordinating those things or to see if there is anyone available to carpool.
Who can help: Doctors, Nurses, Med Students, or Spanish-English translators. Unfortunately, the only opportunities to serve the medical clinics are for people who fall into one of those categories.
All Living Streams mission trip attendees are required to sign, notarize, and submit the above “Hold Harmless Form.”
Local Outreach
Part of our Mission at Living Streams is to “Engage in Society’s Pain.” We believe that the Church’s voice grows as we do that. Below are a few ministries we believe are actively engaging in society’s pain here in Phoenix that also provide avenues for you to serve. Click below to expand for more information on how you can engage with these ministries.
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Click here to express interest in serving with our refugee ministry team
Living Streams congregants serve at GoTEN on a regular basis. There are a number of ways to serve with GoTEN but most volunteers serve for about an hour 1-2 times a week as an English Learning Encourager. English Learning Encouragers sit in a class with one specific refugee and encourage/help them as they learn English with a computer program (Rosetta Stone). The goal here is to make a friendship that extends outside of class while helping someone learn a valuable life skill.
About GoTEN:
GoTEN is a missions organization that seeks to minister to refugee families who have been legally resettled in Phoenix. GoTEN is an acronym that stands for Go To Every Nation. We can reach other nations by going across the street or across town. God has brought unreached people to us! Visit to learn how you can join us as a volunteer and engage with refugees from Iraq, Afghanistan, Myanmar, and other countries through English classes, sewing classes, or kids’ ministry! The friendships you build can lead to opportunities to share the truth of the Gospel. GoTEN.org
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Our food pantry operates Monday through Thursday mornings and feeds over 5,000 people each year. Email foodpantry@livingstreams.org for more information or Click Here to express interest in volunteering.
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Weekdays, October through May, teams of two pray with those who drive up and request prayer. Click here to sign up to work a one-hour shift each week.
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Growing healthy, organic food for the community, right here on the Living Streams campus. Contact: Judy Walden gtggvolunteers@gmail.com if you’d like to join.
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Sunnyslope Ministers of Hope is a local homeless ministry run by Dave Denman who is a part of our Living Streams Family. Click here if you’d like more information on the ministry and how you can help.
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YoungLife is an amazing ministry that engages in heavily relational evangelism. YoungLife has ministries all over the valley primarily for High School students but YoungLife also has ministries for Jr. High students, teens/young adults with disabilities, college students, and teen moms.
Click here for more information on the Metro Phoenix area YoungLife.
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West Phoenix sports is a nonprofit low-cost sports league run by Living Streams members Ernesto & Iveth Gillet. They have Volleyball, Softball, T-ball, Cheer, Soccer and Basketball. They use these leagues to build community and share the gospel in a relational way.
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Feed My Starving Children is a global ministry providing food and nutrition to people living in poverty. There is a local warehouse where you can volunteer (alone or with a group of friends) to go and help package that food.
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Phoenix Rescue Mission is an incredibly effective and valuable ministry that offers long-term practical and spiritual help for those struggling with homelessness and/or addiction.
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Mentor Kids provides growth opportunities and relational investment for children in underserved neighborhoods in the Phoenix area.
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Royal Family Kids is a ministry primarily based around the Royal Family Kids Camp that takes place every June (See Mission Trips above for more info on their camp) but they also have a number of opportunities to serve throughout the year. Those opportunities range from helping with administration & crafts leading up to camp, to a winter party for foster kids, to mentoring foster children on an ongoing basis.
Email judiduffey@azroyalfamiily.com for more information on how you can help.
Global Missions
This map shows most of the missionaries that we support on an ongoing basis. Belize, Ecuador and Puerto Peñasco, Mexico are three of the places our missions efforts are most heavily invested. Living Streams also has a goal of sending out 50 long-term missionaries (9 mo+) by the end of 2025. Email missions@livingstreams.org if you’re interested in being one of those missionaries.