Global Impact
Compelled by the love of Jesus and the desire to reach our world with the Gospel message, Grace Fellowship strives to make a global impact by strategically partnering with exceptional people and organizations that long to help people meet, follow, and share Jesus. We do this by going and serving international churches and ministries with both short- and long-term trips, giving generously, and praying without ceasing. We believe God makes it our individual and corporate responsibility as messengers of the Gospel to help meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of people.
Upcoming Trips
Each Global Impact Trip to one of our ministry partners is an opportunity to listen, learn, and love. Check below for updates on trips and travel dates, and potential new trips being announced!
*Trips are subject to be cancelled or changed based on the needs of our ministry partners.
MEXICO
TRIP IS CLOSED
Date: May 12 - 18, 2020
Estimated Trip Cost: $1,200 - $1,500 per person
Deposit Required: $400 per person
Trip Description: Come with us to San Luis, Mexico to help a local church in a variety of ways. Grace Fellowship is connected to a group of growing churches in San Luis through Encompass World Partners and each one is impacting their community in unique ways. We will get the opportunity to do some light construction projects at one of the churches along with assisting them with local outreach programs for their community. Our goal is to both help this church family improve their building so they can welcome more people for their weekend service and to help them reach their neighbors in creative ways.
**This trip is open to those who regularly attend the Upper Arlington Campus Only.
Cambodia
In Battambang, Cambodia, we partner with Bright Start Learning and Roots of Grace Cambodia to show the love of Jesus to street kids and their families. Through a simple thing, like handing out water or teaching a version of Vacation Bible School or transporting them to school, our teams spend time demonstrating Jesus’ compassion to kids who otherwise may never see it. Short-term trips are open to adults and students who have completed high school.
Trip #2 - Closed
Trip Dates: June 29 - July 12, 2020
Estimated Trip Cost: $2,500 - $3,000 per person
Deposit Required: $500 per person
Application deadline has passed; this trip is currently closed.
Trip Description: We will be working alongside our partners in Battambang, Cambodia to provide medical clinics to those in their community that do not have access to or the means to see a physician. The team will get the opportunity to help hundreds of Cambodian children and their families through these clinics. We are looking for General Practitioners, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Dentists & Hygenists, EMTs, Nursing Students, Medical Students, Pharmacists, etc. to complete this team. We also have a limited number of spots for non-medical personnel as well to assist with the administrative piece of the clinics.
Any questions? Please email globalimpact@
Trip #1 - CLOSED
Trip Dates: March 11-25, 2020
Cost Per Person: $2,000 - 2,500
Application deadline has passed; this trip is currently closed.
Trip Description: We will be working alongside our partners in Battambang, Cambodia to assist them with their ministry to street kids and their families. This group of children and their families are often overlooked and we want to share the love of Jesus with them in tangible ways. The team will get the opportunity to serve the families living on the streets, work in the Roots of Grace Cambodia ministry center, assist in teaching bible studies & English classes and so much more.
Any questions? Please email globalimpact@gracefellowship.cc.
You can still support teams in Cambodia!
Not able to join the trip but want to support our partners in Cambodia? Click here to learn about Chris and Heidi Smith, Grace Fellowship missionaries currently serving in Cambodia. You can also learn about Grace Fellowship’s Peter and Amber Norris, who are working towards becoming missionaries as well in Cambodia.
Dominican Republic
Trip #1 - CLOSED
Trip Dates: March 21-28, 2019
Application Deadline: October 31, 2019
Estimated Trip Cost: $1,500 - $1,700
Trip Deposit: $400 per person
Deposit Due: November 2, 2019
**This trip is open to current high school juniors and seniors at the Pickerington & Chapel Campuses who are regularly attending their HSM group
Trip Description: We will be working with Freedom International Ministries at their bilingual Christian school near the town of Ramon Santana, Dominican Republic. The students in this school are from families living and working in one of the 100 local sugarcane villages and are often among the least served in the country. Participants on this trip will get to interact with students at the school, participate in ongoing building projects, and so much more.
Any questions? Please email globalimpact@
United States
We work with several ministries within the United States. Through these domestic partners, our teams provide relief support after natural disasters, reach inner city neighborhoods for Christ in Philadelphia, and learn how to share Jesus with people cross-culturally in Atlanta.
US Trip Opportunities:
- Urban Hope: For questions, please contact Rothen.Bedford@gracefellowship.cc.
- Encounter Atlanta: Stay tuned for 2020 trip information.
- Disaster Relief: Locations and dates will be determined on a "As Needed" basis.
Haiti
Trip Dates
Dates for trips are to be determined by our ministry partners and their needs in the country. Please check back for opportunities.
Partner with Hannah on her journey to Cambodia
Three years ago I set foot on foreign soil in a country I didn't even know existed. It was uncomfortable and unfamiliar and so far away from home. But my God was moving- and there was nothing foreign about that.
I thought my first trip to Cambodia was "love at first sight," but over the last three years God has been at work on my heart and what I've grown to feel for this country is so much more than love- it is a burning fire fueled by Christ. A fire I simply cannot ignore. I never imagined I'd be planning and praying and preparing to move my entire life across the globe. He has asked. He is faithful. He has never failed me. I owe Him nothing less than gracious obedience.
I am in the final stages of preparing my move to Cambodia and I'd love nothing more than your support. Here are the ways you can partner with me on my journey:
- Commit to praying for the Cambodian people, the work God has already started, and the role we each play in His plans for Cambodia!
- Partner financially with me monthly by giving
Click the green Give button
Then click Give under Workers
Write my name in the Destination box (make sure to hit "make this a recurring gift for monthly partnerships” if your donation will be ongoing)
Partner with Madison on her journey to Thailand
Madison is passionate about the opportunity to use her degree in graphic design in partnership with a coffee and consulting company headquartered in Asia. She is excited to use her skills and education in a cross-cultural context. In addition to her work in graphic design, she will be able to engage in authentic friendship within the workplace as she invests in relationships with local staff, customers, vendors and community members. She is looking forward to building bridges of friendship with the people of Asia and engaging in the culture in ways that will enable her to share the truth in authentic and natural ways.
Madison has been to Asia numerous times and has really connected well with the people, the culture, and even has a growing appreciation for the ever-present heat and dense humidity. Madison has a deep passion for Asia and she longs to see the truth make a deep and transformative impact in the hearts of the people there.
Partner with Amber & Peter Norris AND
Chris & Heidi Smith on their journey to Cambodia
It's not an option not to go...
In the Bible, God tells us that being a follower of Jesus means going wherever He leads. The Norris and Smith families are doing just that.
In answer to God's call, the families are selling their possessions, leaving successful careers, and turning their lives upside down in different ways to serve children and families who live on the streets of Battambang, Cambodia.
Chris Smith first heard God’s call to travel to Cambodia in 2009. A few years later in 2013, he and his wife, Heidi, took their first mission trip. While there, they were heartbroken by the poverty and devastation that greeted them. Children walked the streets alone with no shoes and tattered clothes. Chris and Heidi, along with the Grace Fellowship team members they traveled with, felt affirmed that God did not want this for the families of Cambodia. They were all compelled to take action, but the Smith’s heard this as God’s call to go.
Three years later, Amber and Peter Norris joined the Smiths on a mission trip, where they too saw the needs and felt called to serve the families of Cambodia.
In response to God’s call, the two families are leaving all that they know and moving across the world to minister to what culture has deemed “the least of these.”
The Norris family is not only selling all that they own, and leaving the comforts of America, but they’re taking with them their two small children (ages 10 and 5), who will have the unique opportunity to live, learn, and serve alongside of their parents.
Chris and Heidi Smith, who just became empty-nesters, are leaving behind their grown sons and successful careers to answer God’s call.
For these two families, they feel that they cannot not go.
While in Cambodia, the team will coordinate transportation for children to school to receive an education. Each day, the team will work with the Cambodians to see to it that the children are picked up at their street location, bathed and fed breakfast, taken to school, picked up from school, and fed lunch. Following lunch, the team will help tutor the children and lead them through bible study before they are taken back home to their families.
The team will also work to engage the families through bible studies for women and men as well as provide opportunities for education and health care.
Chris and Heidi arrived safely in Cambodia in December 2018 and have been adjusting to life and ministry within the community. The Norris Family is slated to leave once their training is complete and they are fully funded.
*While Grace Fellowship has the opportunity to partner with the team, we are only able to provide partial funding.
To partner with the team, click the button below and use the following account number(s):
To give to Peter & Amber Norris, use account #014116
To give to Chris & Heidi Smith, use account #014115
Partner with Merielle on her Journey to Thailand
In Matthew 28, God asks everyone who’s a follower of Jesus to, "Go and make disciples of all nations...." For some, that’s intentionally going to and having conversations with their coworker or neighbor. But for others, it means going to another side of the globe.
Merielle Crisan is answering God's call to step out in faith and be vulnerable. God has called Merielle to use her college degree in business and her passion for lost people to travel across the world and minister to the people of Thailand.
Even if you’re not being called to move to Thailand, you still have an impact to make. Merielle needs partners in this gospel mission. You can serve with Merielle in two very important ways: prayer partner and financial support partner. How can you partner with her?
You can learn more about Merielle's story by clicking here.
Begin to partner with us through prayer, learning about our Global Partners, and financially supporting our missions and missionaries.
P r a y • L e a r n • G i v e • G o
*This video was filmed and edited by a group of volunteers from Grace Fellowship during their visit in May 2018.
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