Who am I? Who is God?
What am I supposed to do about it?
REACH is a year-long missions program that provides a space for 18-30 year olds to explore life’s big questions and begin to live them out. Along the way, participants will be stretched, mentored, discipled, and given the tools to pursue a life of devotion to God in whatever setting they find themselves.
What’s it like?
REACH begins with three months of discipleship and missions training in Columbus, Ohio, followed by six months of cross-cultural outreach exciting locations around the world. The last three months include personal mentoring and local ministry in the participant’s home area.
2021 Locations
USA (Phoenix)
This team will serve with AIM Right Ministries, building relationships with youth and offering them an alternative to the drugs, gang violence, and hopelessness that surrounds them. AIM Right offers a wide variety of programs out of their youth drop-in centers, including tutoring, Bible studies, food distribution, refugee outreach, and sports ministry.
Mediterranean
This team will be serving in two different coastal areas seeking to build relationships and share the love of Christ among people of diverse backgrounds and faith traditions. There are numerous outreach possibilities for this team including working with a local church plant, supporting RI’s long-term workers, teaching conversational English, mentoring young adults, and volunteering at a Christian youth camp.
Albania
This team will be closely connected to the local church, leading worship, and helping with youth and children’s activities. They will also be working with two educational centers in the city, where they will study language, build relationships, tutor children after school, and serve the minority Roma population that live in the country.
Eurasia
This team will spend three months studying language and culture, building friendships, teaching English, and ministering through street evangelism. The second part of outreach they will spend time building relationships with students at an international university, practicing relational evangelism, and teaching English conversation classes.
Israel
This team will work with SERVE Nazareth, an organization that invites people from around the world to experience God through living where Jesus lived, learning about cross-cultural ministry, and working with the people of Nazareth. This team will serve in various ways such as ministering at a local hospital, prayer walking, teaching English, manual labor, and volunteering at Nazareth Village—a first-century farm and village presenting the life, times, and teachings of Jesus.
Zambia
This team will live in a rural village, serving alongside Love’s Door’s staff, working with orphans, building relationships, discipling new believers, teaching job skills, doing evangelism outreaches to local villages. Love’s Door has been working in southern Zambia for decades to bring holistic, empowering development to these neglected neighborhoods.
Himalayas
In the Himalayas, there is a history of repression of Christianity. Yet in spite of the danger, the church in the Himalayas is the fastest growing church per capita in the world! The Himalayas team will be involved in a variety of outreaches including trekking into unreached villages, volunteering at a drug rehab center, teaching English, preaching, earthquake relief, and helping with discipleship training.
Thailand
This team will join RI’s long-term workers in building relationships and discipling new believers and seekers in the capital city. After language school, they will spend their days teaching English, ministering to kids, building relationships with university students, prayer walking, and mentoring the children that are part of the long-term team.
Indochina
This team will spend much of their time teaching English and other subjects at a local school. Other possible opportunities include building relationships with college students, prayer ministry, discipling young believers, hosting camps, manual labor, and encouraging the persecuted church.