2025 Mission Trips

Be the hands & feet of Christ as we reach the nations with the transforming power of the Gospel

Missions Projects

Missions is God’s plan for the whole world to hear the good news of the gospel. God has a missionary heart! He calls us to join him in the mission of making His name known among the nations. Missions is the activity of the local church to accomplish the Great Commission by spreading the gospel, making disciples, and planting churches across the world.

STRATEGIC PARTNERS

A strategic partner has a multiplying ministry; one that is developing disciples who are planting churches that plant churches. Midway has a special relationship with our strategic partners by helping them with large projects and visiting them in their country.

Sandy & Karen Baird

Nicaragua / East Africa

Sandy & Karen help lead New Hope Initiative which is a faith-based, non-profit organization that desires to bring real positive change to some of the poorest communities in the world. They do this by a multi-faceted approach of nutritional, educational, economic, and spiritual assistance.

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New Hope Initiative

New Hope Initiative is a faith-based, non-profit organization that has a compelling desire to bring real positive change to some of the poorest communities in the world. We do that by a multi-faceted approach of nutritional, educational, economic, and spiritual assistance. We partner with respected local leaders in some of the world’s most difficult neighborhoods to offer self sustaining projects of hope that will change a community forever.

Mitch and Beth Calmes

Kenya

Mitch and Beth are missionaries to Tanzania and are doing amazing things there! Mitch has pastored a community church in Dar es Salaam and Beth owns and operates a very successful ministry driven clothing company called Sifa Threads. They both currently serve in Kenya.

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Kenya

Languages: English, Kiswahili, other indigenous languages

Population : 57 mil

Vernon & Mary Smith

Tanzania

Vernon & Mary Smith have been serving as missionaries to Tanzania Africa since 1990. They work very closely with locals in Tanzania in planting churches and hosting retreats such as their yearly missionary retreat is called SALT. (Serving And Living in Tanzania).

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Tanzania

Languages: Swahili, English, other local languages

Population: 65 mil

Lance & Melanie Gotcher

Philippines

Lance and Melanie Gotcher have been serving as Missionaries since 1999. They both serve as the Asia directors for MANNA Worldwide helping provide care to children all over their city who are living in poverty. Lance and Melanie are also active in church planting and lead a seminary & training institute developing future pastors and missionaries.

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Population: 116 mil

Languages: Filipino, English, Tagalog

Brian & Rachel Weed

Trailhead International

Brian and Rachel Weed started Familia Avance Nicaragua which ranges from church planting to feeding centers, sports outreach programs, teen outreach programs, Rancho Nicaragua, a Christian school, seminary, and a medical clinic. Brian and Rachel now lead Trailhead International which is an organization that raises funds to build churches/community center facilities, develop sports centers for at-risk youth, and provide rapid food relief in developing nations.

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Countries: 30+

Projects: 200

Serving over 35,000 People

Building new facilities housing churches and centers
Developing sports centers for at-risk youth
Providing rapid food relief for starving people in effected by natural disasters

Max & Jennifer Kennedy

Nicaragua

Max and Jennifer Kennedy surrendered to full time missions in 2014 after pastoring for 23 years in the U.S. Max and Jennifer help by planting churches that plant churches. They both work with national pastors to plant indigenous churches all over Nicaragua. They also train those pastors to duplicate their ministries by planting new churches in other communities. They are currently launching a new church in Esteli, Nicaragua.

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Language: Spanish