Student Missionary Partners

His Mansion Ministries is a Christ-centered residential recovery community that works to minister the love of Christ to see peoples’ lives transformed. You will spend time with young adults ages 18–35 who are participating in His Mansion’s year-long recovery program, helping them find freedom from addiction through a relationship with Jesus. Residents experience restored lives through authentic relationships, formational learning, Christ-centered counseling, and a healthy work ethic, including harvesting from their garden and preparing meals together. His Mansion’s beautiful property is located in south-central New Hampshire, where you can find a working farm with livestock and gardens as well as various facilities such as men’s and women’s dorm buildings, a chapel, a multi-purpose building, and staff family homes. You will join the His Mansion Residents, Servant Leaders, and Staff in their work crews and live, converse, eat, and worship alongside them. All students are invited, especially those who wish to serve in ministry in the future.

Hear more about the trip from the 2026 team on the SMP Blog.

You will have the opportunity to witness what the Lord is doing in Mexico City by partnering with several Christ-centered organizations. Milamex supports the Latin American church through spiritual formation, publishing, vocational coaching, holistic health ministry, and hospitality. You will partner with Pozo de Vida in its anti-trafficking work among migrants and vulnerable populations. You will also engage with Servant Partners in holistic community development within urban poor neighborhoods. Your team will learn from Corazón Valiente as it provides vocational and academic support for indigenous families from across Mexico. Beyond ministry work, you will experience the culture of Mexico City by visiting markets, meeting locals, exploring the anthropology museum, attending church, and enjoying local food. You will stay at Milamex’s Warm Heart guesthouse, where you will have meaningful opportunities for cross-cultural connection with backpackers.

Hear more about the Mexico City trip from the 2025 team on the SMP Blog.

Skivangelism is partnering with Student Missionary Partners to bring Wheaton College a spring break trip designed specifically for snowsports ministry! You will be serving alongside Snowboarders and Skiers for Christ, which exists to bridge  the snowboard/ski culture to Jesus Christ, while partnering with the local Church. You will get to witness and learn first hand how SFC missionaries spread the Gospel on the slopes and in their local community.

Hear more about the Skivangelism trip from the 2026 team on the SMP Blog.

On the Samaritan’s Purse Disaster Relief trip, you will have the opportunity to assist homeowners affected by a recent disaster, helping in Jesus’ Name. The nature of the work, dependent on the type of storm, could include tarping damaged roofs, mudding out flooded homes, cutting and removing fallen trees from yards, or sifting through the ashes of a person’s home. Tools and leadership will all be provided on site for you. No skills are necessary prior to serving, just a desire to love and serve those who are hurting. “Samaritan’s Purse is here to help and we’re doing it all in Jesus’ Name. We want every homeowner to know that God loves them and hasn’t forgotten them.”- Franklin Graham

Hear more about the Samaritan’s Purse trip from the 2026 team on the SMP Blog.

The Jungle is an immersive space dedicated to fostering creativity, developing friendships, and building a strong sense of community. You will join The Jungle in using shared art experiences to build relationships and community with local residents. You will learn about the work OneCollective does in Cowley, connecting people through mixed media arts. This is an ideal trip if you are creatively inclined. You will learn how to combine your artistic abilities with Christ-centered community enrichment.

Hear more about the Oxford trip from the 2026 team on the SMP Blog.

Wheaton Football Ministry Partners (WFMP) is a spring break missions opportunity conducted by the Wheaton football program. This year, the trip will include Samaritan’s Purse, Ghana, Dominican Republic, Prague, Ecuador, and Uganda. Most often, these trips partner with former Wheaton football players who are in full-time Christian ministry. These trips are open to students, faculty, and staff. If interested in learning more please reach out to Mike Schauer (Director of Athletics) or Jeff Peltz (Program Director) for more information.

Interested in a trip described above? Apply to be a part of the Spring Break SMP 2027 cohort! Below are important fall dates for the application process:

• Trips Info and FAQ - October 22, 10:40-11:15am in Phelps Room
• SMP Info Fair - October 27, 7:00-9:00pm in Lower Beamer
• Applications are open in GoGlobal from October 28 to November 11
• Spring Break “Mini Interviews” - November 16 to November 23
• Spring Break Trip Placements will be announced on December 4

Once placed on a spring break trip, participants will attend the following events during spring semester:

Orientation

• Kick-Off Night - January 14th from 6:00-7:30pm
• Spring Break Trip Orientation Sessions - Attend a site-specific training and a time of team bonding during A-quad.
• Spring Break Commissioning Night - March 4, 6:00-7:00pm in Phelps Room

Fundraising

• Letter Writing/Donor Relationship Building - As fundraising is a valuable aspect of missions, we provide training on how to fundraise within your individual network during orientation. Participants will send a minimum of 25 support letters.
• Spring Community Work Day - Serve in the community to raise funds for the trips on April 10 from 7:30am-5:00pm.

Financing

• Trips require a personal contribution of up to $350. SMP covers orientation expenses, airfare, ministry expenses, on site lodging, meals, and transportation.
• Our fundraising efforts cover the remainder of the program. If you are interested in a scholarship opportunity please reach out to smp@my.wheaton.edu.

In a North African city on the Mediterranean, you will discover how gospel-minded workers integrate business and ministry to impact communities and transform lives. At the same time, you’ll engage in meaningful relationships and share Jesus with college-aged Muslims. Your summer includes language and cultural study, social activities with the co-working community, and discussions about church planting and entrepreneurship principles with experienced practitioners. This trip will encourage you to think about how you can pursue ministry in their future career avenues. You will study with a mentor each day to enrich your understanding of living in a new environment and evangelizing in a non-Christian context. The experience is further enriched by visits to active Kingdom businesses and cultural sites throughout the country.

Hear more about the North Africa trip from the 2025 team on the SMP Blog.

In the Middle East, you will be encouraged to live out the Gospel in your daily life and enter culture and relationships as boldly curious learners. Your team will invest in others to catalyze discipleship relationships and build missional relationships with the well-established missionaries and national partners. You will be paired with a missionary mentor who will walk alongside you in your journey and help discern where God may be leading you. This trip is designed for you if you are exploring the potential for a career in missions and is crafted to expose you to the real Middle East with all its beauty, challenges, and opportunity. You will work alongside a team of missionaries in places where the Gospel is not known, be trained in situational awareness, and introduced to best practice security measures for missionaries in creative access countries. Your team will take Arabic classes, culture classes, and a brief course on Islam. This learning will directly serve to equip you as you help to run the partners’ English center and coffee shop, which engages Muslim students practicing their English. Additionally, you will meet Arab church leaders, visit refugee homes, attend lectures relevant to missions in the Middle East, meet and pray for missionaries serving in the Middle East, learn the basic political and theological issues that are important to Muslim ministry, and much more. This ministry experience is for learning and meeting real people in real life doing what it takes to establish the church in new places.

Your team will intern at Prosperous Youth Foundation (PYF) to support their ministry serving youth homes in the city of Chiang Mai. PYF works to support the growth and formation of individuals aged anywhere from 6 to 20 who live in youth homes. Surrounding mountain villages commonly send children to the city for an education, and youth homes seek to meet their housing needs. PYF offers holistic discipleship focused on Christ alongside providing mental health training and resources. They partner with local churches, the Thai government, and NGOs to advocate for and offer counseling to youth. Your team will teach classes in various youth homes that vary from English to Bible to art, you will put on respite events to build connections with more youth homes, and organize VBS events with PYF staff.

Hear more about the Thailand trip from the 2026 team on the SMP Blog.

In Southeast Asia, you will engage in a Business as Missions (BAM) model in the hospitality industry. This particular BAM ministry is dedicated to spreading the gospel among an unreached people group in Southeast Asia and bringing sustainable, positive impact to employees, the ecosystem, and local economy. During your two-months, you will not only lend your skills to a purposeful project but will also dedicate time to language acquisition. Moreover, you’ll delve into the intricacies of a BAM operation, observe pivotal decision-making procedures, and learn the art of connecting with unreached and unengaged people groups. This immersive experience entails spending time both within the business environment and on remote islands, living with host families, and fully immersing themselves in the subsistence lifestyle of the local fishing communities. If you are adventurous and ready to fully embrace life rhythms of both the city and remote villages, this trip is designed for you. To thrive in this experience, you should have a desire for cultural & culinary exploration, adaptability, and an eagerness to go with the flow of everyday life. Beyond the adventure, your participation plays a pivotal role in advancing the partner organization’s two-decade-long mission to reach unreached and unengaged communities.

Hear more about the SE Asia trip from the 2026 team on the SMP Blog.

In Norway, you will partner with Intermission Hostel, a summer hostel operated by Laget Vest, a Christian student organization located in Bergen. You will first walk the Camino de Santiago, a famous pilgrimage route in Spain, for a little over a week. You will walk alongside fellow pilgrims and stay in multiple hostels to learn the lifestyle of backpackers. After completion of the Camino, your team will fly to Bergen. There, you will be responsible for setting up Intermission and making the space open and welcoming. Once the hostel opens, you will serve through general cleaning and upkeep of the hostel, keeping track of hostel bookings, checking guests in, and engaging with guests. You will have the chance to host weekly waffle and movie nights, organize group hikes and city tours, as well as any other opportunities you wish to provide for guests. In this model of hospitality, you will be able to relate to your guests' experiences and offer the love of Christ to them.

Hear more about the Norway trip from the 2026 team on the SMP Blog.

In Spain, you will engage in the ministry of hospitality through a pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago and partner with two OneCollective ministries: Pilgrim House, a welcome center for backpackers, and APOTHECA, a local grocery store and workshop for women. You will first hike the Camino de Santiago, a walking pilgrimage with various routes ultimately leading to the Cathedral of Saint James. You will engage in the rhythmic act of traveling the same path as the pilgrims you meet will have taken. After arriving in Santiago, you will serve at the welcome center alongside Pilgrim House staff, assisting in Camino debriefs and reflections and welcoming pilgrims into the space with biblical hospitality and kindness. Your team will also serve with APOTHECA in a local grocery store and artisanal soap-making workshops to empower women and foster meaningful conversations. These two ministries will teach you how to engage in ministry with both locals and tourists in Santiago.

Hear more about the Spain trip from the 2026 team on the SMP Blog.

In Mexico, you will serve as hosts of the Warm Heart Guesthouse. Day to day, you will live in community with fellow travelers, facilitate spiritual reflection for backpackers, help run the guesthouse’s cafe, maintain the guesthouse, assist in cleaning, and be a part of planning events that bring communities together. Your team will host meals for the guests, create art, and explore Mexico City. You will encourage people to cultivate and use their abilities to serve others through putting on events that raise awareness about social issues and to help people explore ways they can walk in step with those in need. The team will also engage with the larger ministry of Milamex, which has a publishing business, fitness ministry, and two camps.

Hear more about the Mexico trip from the 2025 team on the SMP Blog.

In Ecuador, you will partner with Living and Learning International, a ministry and education organization that trains youth workers in the local church and runs internships for North American college students. You will have the opportunity to intern with Living and Learning’s partners across the city. You may work in a community health clinic, observing medical practice in an international setting to gain an understanding of international medicine and medical practices. Additionally, you may work in a micro-business entrepreneurial setting or as a teacher's aide in a small faith-based K-12 school which serves a specific under-resourced community within Quito. Whatever the internship, you will engage with education or ministry programs alongside staff and community members and live with a host family, immersed in the rich culture of Ecuador’s mountainous capital.

Hear more about the Ecuador trip from the 2025 team on the SMP Blog.

Your team will travel to Evangelical Theological Seminary (ETS) in Osijek, which has played a pivotal role in ministry training in Eastern Europe. You will assist seminary staff primarily in the development of the Seminary Library, working to catalogue and alphabetize its large collection of theological resources. Your team will live on campus in dorms with the seminary students and other students attending the public university in Osijek, building relationships and having opportunities to share the good news of the Gospel. Your team will have the opportunity to be involved in other programming through the local evangelical church, visiting other evangelical church plants and engaging with young adult/youth programs.

Hear more about the Croatia trip from the 2026 team on the SMP Blog.

You will live and serve alongside African Christian healthcare professionals at CURE Children’s Hospital of Kenya, a pediatric specialty hospital in the mountain community of Kijabe. You will learn how Christian faith, excellent healthcare, and compassionate service come together as you spend time with healthcare professionals and ministry leaders. You will observe different aspects of pediatric healthcare and contribute to a meaningful project identified by CURE Kenya leadership. You will work alongside CURE staff to address a real need, gaining experience in areas such as public health, patient support, research, and ministry. Living on the hospital campus will allow you to experience the rhythms of the hospital and mission community while building relationships with Kenyan healthcare professionals and Christian workers. Through these experiences, you will explore what Christian medical mission looks like in an African-led context and consider how your gifts and future vocation could be used in faithful service to others.