SHORT-TERM MISSIONS

UPCI Global Missions


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GLOBAL STUDENT MINISTRIES

STM PROGRAMS

Providing PATHWAYS to the Harvest. Creating a COMMUNITY of Laborers.

Associates in Missions

  • Have time for a 2-12 month overseas appointment?
  • Need to raise funds or have a way to work while you’re on the field?
  • Ready to join your missions tribe?

Submit your AIM application today.

Processing can take 8-12 weeks, so don’t delay.

Next Steps Program

  • Ready to spend 8 weeks moving a little deeper into missions, beyond AYC?
  • Interested in a summer program that includes training and the opportunity to do the work of a missionary?

The Next Steps program is likely for you.

Apostello

  • Ready to spend 8 weeks honing your skills, preparing for work in an ACN?
  • Have two months of AIM experience on the field?

Apply for a spot at Apostello 2027.

Associated Ministers

  • Share in what God is doing around the world.
  • If you meet the following conditions, you’re qualified to apply for GM Associated Minister status.
  • Do you have a UPCI ministerial license? Are you in good standing with your district? Do you take overseas ministry trips?

Global Educators

  • Interested in teaching and training in overseas Bible schools?
  • Want to be part of establishing strong indigenous churches through education efforts?

Get connected with the team!

LINKED MINISTRIES

Check out ministries we work with on a regular basis.

Global Children's Ministries

Global Children’s Ministries is a collaboration between UPCI Children’s Ministries and Global Missions. GCM exists to be a bridge between children’s ministers and those outside of North America who are requesting help to engage, evangelize, and disciple children.

Greater Works

Greater Works is the brain child of former Next Stepper, Amber Martin. Using her experience and sports management degree, Amber works with missionaries, the AYC program, and other ministries to engage communities generally closed to the gospel. 

Global Student Ministries

If you’re involved in campus ministry in North America, have you considered expanding your reach to international campuses? We are looking for “go-ers” to who are interested in helping us grow GSM around the world.

Access Challenged Nations

ACN, Access Challenged Nations, are comprised of gospel-resistant countries and territories that meet certain criteria. To find out more, visit their page and download the ACN brochure.

Unreached People Groups

Unreached People Groups is an effort to direct prayer support and strategic sending of missions personnel to groups that are unreached or minimally reached with the gospel.

Compassion Services Int'l

Compassion Services Int’l has been our link to disaster relief around the world for many decades. Today CSi has expanded their reach to touch lives with needs other than a natural disaster. They need more than just dollars. They need volunteers to serve too.

Guatemala HOME

Guatemala HOME of HOME International is an orphanage of the highest caliber. With a unique position and accreditation by the Guatemalan government, they are seeking donors for children and operational expenses as well as volunteers to serve through the STM associate programs.

ROK Global

Reaching Our Kids (ROK) is going global!! If you want to be involved with reaching children at home and abroad, check out how you can join the team.

Harvest Bible College

Harvest Bible College in Glasgow, Scotland, is a great place to get hands on ministry training. You can get there as an AIMer, starting the clock on your ministry journey and/or missions career path. 

FIELD TRAINING PROGRAMS

Training for a lifetime of service, whether at home or abroad, is what these programs are all about. In 2026 we are offering eight-week and eleven-week programs in: Trinidad, Benin (Next Steps), Spain (RKR), and the Dominican Republic (MGC).

Next Steps Program

“DO IT!!! You might be unsure of what your “Next Step” is in life , if you have any slight burden or call for missions just apply. This trip will give you life long friends and will change your life tremendously. Take the Next Step and let God change and mold you. Answer the Call!”


Brianna Sellers

Next Steps: Mediterranean 2024

Missionary Gateway Center

The MGC is an 11-week training program hosted in the Central America/Caribbean region. We would love to be the gateway to your missionary journey. Check our our Go! Center post for more info and a way to contact us with your questions.

Robert K Rodenbush Training Center

Join Dennis and Amy for your hands-on AIM training and practical life experience on the field. An incredible team experience awaits you with opportunities for any kind of ministry you can imagine.
Are you ready to move forward in your calling? We’re ready for you!

Apostello

Feel called to an Access Challenged Nation?

Need training and apprenticing before launching out into deeper waters of full-time missions work? Have at least two months of recent AIM experience? Then Apostello just might be for you. Stay tuned for an opportunity to train in an ACN in Summer 2027.

OCTOBER 22-24, 2026

You don’t have to feel alone in your missions journey! Make connections and be informed! Save the Date to discover, prepare, then go!

Our 2024 Global ConNEXTions videos are now on our YouTube channel. Start making plans now to attend in the fall of 2026!

2024-2025 STM Report
Total STMers: 1,097

  • 475 AIMers 43% 43%
  • 72 AMPers (Associate Missionaries) 6.5% 6.5%
  • 348 Associated Ministers 31% 31%
  • 167 Associated Ministers/Global Educators 15% 15%
  • 34 Next Steps/Apostello 3% 3%
  • 13 TESOL Participants 1% 1%

TESOL CERTIFICATE

 

Interested in receiving an 8-hour TESOL Community Worker Certificate so you can start an English program through your local church?

NEXT COURSE: March 21, 2026
Kansas City, MO | $180

REGIONAL BROCHURES

AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

Want to know general information and opportunities in the seven regions where we have UPC works? We thought so!  For specific oppostunities, please visit our Go!  Center. See you on the field!

Deaf and Staying by Choice

It’s a little past 3:30 AM, and I’m wide awake. Souls are on my mind! In morning prayer yesterday, I read these words, and can’t shake them, “He who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame” (Proverbs 10:5). The principle here is: we shouldn’t sleep when there is so much work to be done.

The God that Stood in the Gap

It’s a little past 3:30 AM, and I’m wide awake. Souls are on my mind! In morning prayer yesterday, I read these words, and can’t shake them, “He who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame” (Proverbs 10:5). The principle here is: we shouldn’t sleep when there is so much work to be done.

Asleep in Harvest

It’s a little past 3:30 AM, and I’m wide awake. Souls are on my mind! In morning prayer yesterday, I read these words, and can’t shake them, “He who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame” (Proverbs 10:5). The principle here is: we shouldn’t sleep when there is so much work to be done.

What’s Your Life Verse?

One of my favorite Bible verses, in whichever translation you pull up, is 2 Timothy 2;2. It’s a life verse to me. It sets my purpose, is personal and profound, and is factored into all of my plans.

Wanted 05.06.20

Imagine the Classified Section of “Heaven’s Chronicles.” One ad for employment reads something like this.

Home Alone 2020

Slow down. Better still; STOP! Sometimes it’s just fitting to go into self-imposed, Spirit-imposed, or other-imposed quarantine.

He’s Got You Covered

Have you noticed that an oft-repeated Bible verse, during the pandemic, comes from Psalms 91? Much of the chapter ministers to us today but here I consider one main thought.

Our Known God in Unknown Times

Pick up a newspaper. Tune into a radio station. Surf the Net. Dreary stories are plentiful. The economy plummets. The pandemic provokes panic. Political chaos prevails. Extortionists plunder. Catastrophes produce pressure. It is easy to be caught in despair, depression, and desperation. We live in unsettling times. However, there are a couple things to remember. God’s Word remains the same. It is forever settled. God never slumbers or sleeps (Psalms 121:4). We can put our confidence in Him and His Word.

Praying the Word for the Unreached World

What do Angola, Afghanistan, Bermuda, Algeria, Turkmenistan and the Gambia (among others) have in common? These are nations or territories that are unreached or minimally reached. How will we reach them? First things first. Paul said, “First of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men” (I Timothy 2:1).