New Orleans - Youth or Adult Group Mission Trip

Sep 2026 - Dec 2027 | Adventures in Missions

New Orleans

Trip #26839

New Orleans - Youth or Adult Group Mission Trip

Trip #26839

New Orleans

Adventures in Missions Committed to best practice standards - MissionExcellence Associate Member

Location:

United States, North America

Dates:

Sep 2026 - Dec 2027
Lasts Up to 2 weeks

Activities:

Community Development, Hospitality & Cooking, Service Projects & Helps, VBS/Bible Clubs, Evangelism- Open Air/Street

Cost:

Approximately $445 to $495
** See Financial Information Below
Includes: Lodging, Meals
Agency: Adventures in Missions
Location: United States, North America
Dates: Sep 2026 - Dec 2027
Lasts Up to 2 weeks
Activities: Community Development, Hospitality & Cooking, Service Projects & Helps, VBS/Bible Clubs, Evangelism- Open Air/Street
Cost: Approximately $445 to $495
** See Financial Information Below
Includes: Lodging, Meals
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Youth or Adult Group Trip - 1 Week - New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Ida has ravaged New Orleans and the surrounding areas. Many towns are flooded, people were left trapped in their homes and roads turned into rivers! We have been working in New Orleans since Katrina hit, when we sent 4,000 people there in one year. Our ministry partners are evaluating how to move forward. Some of their churches and homes were severely damaged. It will take a long while to recover. With your help, it won't be as difficult. Join us in New Orleans!

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What the Mission Trip Will Be Like

Youth or Adult Group Trip – 1 Week – New Orleans, Louisiana.

New Orleans is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. With an estimated population of 391,006 in 2018, it is the most populous city in Louisiana.

The historic heart of the city is the French Quarter. The city has been described as the "most unique" in the United States, owing in large part to its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage.

New Orleans has historically been very vulnerable to flooding, due to such factors as high rainfall, low lying elevation, poor natural drainage and location next to multiple bodies of water. State and federal authorities have installed a complex system of levees and drainage pumps in an effort to protect the city. In August, 2005, the city was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina followed by devastating flooding of approximately 80% of the city. Shortly after that is when Adventures started to bring teams to help rebuild.

Ministry

In the summer of 2006, Adventures brought in teams of 200 per week for 10 weeks. These young people “gutted” a lot of houses, which was the first step in rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The hurricane laid waste to much of New Orleans, claiming over 1,500 lives in Louisiana alone. During this time we began to focus our efforts with our ministry partners in an area called Holly Grove. This ministry reached displaced families and with an emphasis on the young people in the community.

Now after more than 10 years, our partners are not only still working in Holly Grove but have reached hundreds of kids and their families. Through our partners efforts, there are now

  • Dedicated tutors and mentors with over 1500 hours of one-on-one tutoring annually

  • Access to technology and consistent individual care

  • Healthy after school and Summer Camp snacks

  • Takeaway lunch bags

  • Weekend family boxes

  • A free 9-week summer camp

  • School supplies for about 35 children

  • Cajun Thanksgiving food drive

  • Christmas toy giveaway

  • Arts, sports, dance and coding camps

Your team will have the opportunity to work alongside this ministry to continue the revitalization effort of this incredible community through working with young kids and youth.

The other opportunity is to work with Bethel Colony South, Men’s (and Women’s) transformation Center which has also partnered with AIM since Katrina and grown exponentially over the past years. Here you’ll help in their Thrift Store, participate in Bible Studies, possibly work with women and their small kids, Paint and help with light construction.

Lodging

You will stay at one of our local lodging partners. This may be at a church with bunk beds, or on a church floor where you bring your own air mattresses. 

Travel

Your team is welcome to drive in or fly in. New Orleans is home to a major airport with rental options as well. Parking is available on site.

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Relation of Opportunity to National Church and/or Long-term Goals

Your team will have the opportunity to work alongside this ministry to continue the revitalization effort of this incredible community through working with young kids and youth.

Additional Trip Information

Region:
North America
Country:
United States
Other Location Info:
New Orleans, LA
Participant Age:
Eligible to Go:
Other Financial Notes:
The cost of your trip provides a Mission Leader(s) for your trip, covers all your food, lodging, ministry expenses, t-shirts, journals and other associated costs.

Your team is welcome to drive in or fly in. New Orleans is home to a major airport with rental options as well. Parking is available on site.
Training debriefing
Once you commit and get connected with your mission coordinator, they will walk you through Pre-Trip Training WHY DO WE GO ON MISSION TRIPS? To learn how to reach people for Jesus! We practice what we learn while preparing and being on the mission trip. We then continue to do these things back home, to reach people there. Jesus wants people to spend eternity with Him. We get to participate in that. This trip will train and transform you. Time spent at the feet of Jesus results in ministry. True ministry comes from the overflow of time spent with Jesus and the leading of the Holy Spirit. It’s vital that we spend time in the presence of God! Adventures in Missions 5 Objectives: 1) Listening in Prayer You will have the opportunity to hear and discern God’s voice through prayer and scripture, and then obey the direction God gave! Everyone will have opportunity to be sensitive to the Spirit’s specific leading in personal ministry during the trip. John 10:27 “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” 2) Make a Meaningful Relationship Led by the Holy Spirit, you will be able to build a meaningful relationship through ministry with your host, teammates, and locals within the community. Seeking out that person each day, will demonstrate the love of Jesus. John 15:12-15 “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.” 3) Meet a Felt Need You will be able to respond to God’s specific direction to meet a local person’s practical need! This could be prayer, making a meal, giving out a hygiene kit, or perhaps a very specific answer to a prompting by the Holy Spirit during a prayer walk, for example. Matthew 25:40 “The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'” 4) Share Your Faith You will share the Good News, which is more than a Gospel presentation, or rehearsed testimony, it’s your life! You will listen in prayer to know whom to share with, what to share, and how to share it. This could include a formal Gospel presentation or personal testimony. Luke 4:18-19 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” 5) Debrief & Respond Assisted by the Mission Leader, you will learn to identify and share (debrief) what God has done each day. Everyone will have the opportunity to respond to God in gratitude, praise, and worship. At the end of the trip, you will have a final debrief to highlight key takeaways from your trip! Hebrews 10:24-25 “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
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Mission Trip Offered By Adventures in Missions

You want to follow Jesus’s example in the way He cared for the lost and the hurting. You want to take up Jesus’s commission to make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28) and be His witness to the ends of the earth (Acts 1).

Adventures in Missions is an interdenominational missions organization that focuses on discipleship. We emphasize prayer and relationships in our work around the world. We seek to disciple as Jesus did; our vision is that God would use us to raise up a generation of radically committed disciples of Jesus Christ.

Since we were established in 1989, we have taken over 115,000 people into the mission field, some for as short as a week and others for as long as a year or longer. We minister year-round through our ministry bases and strategic ministry partnerships. We believe that by giving people the opportunity to step outside their comfort zones and join what God is doing in other cultures and nations, lives are transformed.

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