MEXICO

• Dates: June 22nd - June 29th 2025

• Description: Working with long time missionary Gary Sandman this trip will be focusing on helping build at a ministry site. Projects included are painting, landscaping, sheetrock, welding and possible outreach opportunities.

• Cost: Approx $1800

• Contact: Judy Severtson at belle5412@yahoo.com

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Cairo, Egypt

• Dates: Approx Feb 27-March 7, 2026 (Final dates may vary slightly)

• Trip Leaders: Kristen Ostrem (kristenostrem@gmail.com)

• Trip Cost: Approx $2,240

  • Includes flight, lodging, meals, transportation, and scheduled tourist activities in-country, as well as travel insurance and a visa.

  • Spending money, meals in airport, and travel to airport are not included.

• Team Size: Maximum of 12 men and women (ages 14+

• Trip Overview:

  • Join RRCC as we head to Cairo, Egypt! We will be partnering with an organization called LiveDead—a church planting ministry to unreached people groups.

    • Feel what it's like to be in a city of over 10 million people where Islam is the dominant religion

    • Pray for the city

    • Experience what missionaries do and how they are trained to be sent out on church planting teams

    • See the old part of Cairo, and visit a mosque or a center for Islamic studies

    • Visit the pyramids, Sphinx, and possibly a boat ride on the Nile River and/or camel ride! :)

    • Visit a Coptic Church

    • Tour a language school and experience a one-hour crash-course Arabic lesson

    • Hear & learn from & ask questions of missionaries each day!

    • Attend a local evangelical church

    • See if God might be calling you to go, give, or pray for the Arab World

• Payment Schedule (tentative):

  • ______ -  Applications Open

  • June 1 – Application and $400 Down Payment Due

  • Sept 1 - $1,000 Payment Due

  • Nov 1 - $840 Final Payment Due

• Meeting Schedule:

  • May 4 at 7:00 pm - Informational Q&A via Zoom for Anyone to Learn More About Trip Opportunity

    • Request Zoom link by emailing kristenostrem@gmail.com

  • June 15 – Team Meeting in Person at RRCC at 6:00 pm (talk about preparation logistics)

  • Sept 7 – Team Meeting Via Zoom at 7:00 pm

  • January 11 – Team Meeting Via Zoom at 7:00 pm

  • Feb 15 – Final Meeting / Pizza + Packing Party (if applicable) at RRCC at 6:00 pm

 

• Live Dead Arab World exists to make disciples and plant the church among the 400 unreached people groups of the Arab world. We are deploying church planting teams from our training centers to 33 gateway cities across the Middle East and North Africa. Learn more about Live Dead and unreached people groups at livedead.org/arabworld.

• Watch a video related to reaching unreached people: https://vimeo.com/1079797295/ada8d02c8a

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Kentucky, USA

Partnering Organization: Samaritans Purse

Trip Overview: This mission will include building projects to support those whom have lost homes and businesses after natural disasters. Projects will include many facets of construction processes.

Cost: TBD

Dates: TBD

Trip Leaders/Contact: Robert & Mary Pietan velcrotwins@acegroup.cc

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Bogota, Columbia

Dates: Tentative leave dates is Jan 26th with an option to stay until Feb 2nd or Feb 9th 2026

Trip Overview: This trip will partner with Children's Vision international which is a Children's Orphanage to hundreds of kids and is a long time partner of Root River Community Church. Team will do a variety of activities from working on getting kids ready for new school year, maintenance work on properties, delivering food and supplies to neighboring villages in the mountains, etc. 

Cost: Approx $1500

Trip Leader/Contact: Flo Mundt ftmcuddlers@aol.com 

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Alexandria, MN

Partnering Organization: Assemblies of God - Single Mom's Retreat

Trip Overview: This trip members serve at a Single Momo's Retreat and tasks include anything from being on a Prayer Team, Greeting, Spa Team, Boutique Team, Merch Tables, Car Care and more

Dates: June 2026

Cost: $134 - $214 depending on choice of 2 days or 3 and dorm or hotel-style lodging. Includes lodging, 4-5 meals, and a volunteer t-shirt! (Vehicle transportation and travel meals not included in cost)

Contact: Kristen Ostrem kristenostrem@gmail.com

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Santiago, Guatemala

Description: In 2009 the Robertson's were called to serve poor and orphaned children in Santiago, GUA. God's opened doors to provide in a holistic manner; food, clothes, healthcare, education, Biblical studies, and most of all by sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Their goal is to raise a generation of children with Godly principles to be leaders in their communities. Teams get the opportunity to partner in a variety of ways; putting on a VBS-type program for the kids, work projects, dental ministry, assembling ONIL stoves for families, and/or construction projects.

Dates: 2026 - TBD (7-10 days)

Cost: $1,000 - $1,400

Trip Leader/Contact: Alicia Parochka Alicia.parochka@yahoo.com

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