Any adult willing and able to travel and serve alongside mission partners in North America or overseas. The mission partner will assign work based on a volunteer's experience, skill and interests.

Volunteers can begin by serving on a short-term project with a mission partner of their church or association to determine if the location and ministry is suitable for a longer term or service.  Meet with the mission partners to discuss ways long term volunteers can benefit the ministry and pray about returning to that location in the future. 
If your church doesn't have mission trips planned, reach out to your Baptist Association or the South Carolina Baptist Convention to discover ways to join a team. 

• Invite others to join you. 
• Enlist at least ten prayer partners as you prepare to go.
• Ask people in your church to join you on the mission as volunteers. 
• Share ways people can support you financially so you can stay longer than a few weeks.

The Lexington Association launched the Jethro Project to mobilize retirees to serve in a European city. The Association rented an apartment and enlisted retired couples to serve alongside local missionaries for three months at a time.  They volunteered at a community center teaching English and helped out when mission teams were there. Most of all they encouraged the missionaries and helped out wherever they were needed.

Tim and Maggie Rice volunteered in Bangkok, Thailand for a month during the summer. They served with a local church delivering healthy food to refugee families in need. While visiting refugees in their homes, they listened to their stories, prayed with them and shared stories of Hope from the Bible. Tim and Maggie also taught Bible and English two days a week at the school for refugee children.   The Rices were trained alongside church members and helped conduct eye glass clinics in several communities as well. Their biggest investment of time was spent with missionary families seeing the sights, learning about the culture and encouraging them.