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WAM 2025 Mission Trips
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Nassau, Bahamas
Winter Break Adventure
December 28 - January 7
$2,795
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Community, beach, park and home to home outreaches
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Bahamas evangelism and food/clothing outreach to the forgotten Haitian community
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Children's Church ministry
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Church activities, New Year's Eve special dinner, game night, and more!
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Free time -- beach time
Free Days include the AMAZING Atlantis Aquaventure Water Park & Stuart Cove's Snorkel Adventure!
There’s nothing more rewarding than giving of yourself, experiencing incredible outreach opportunities, and having an absolute blast with an amazing team! This winter, we’ll be ministering in small communities, parks, and orphanages, as well as partnering with an incredible local church. Together, we’ll bring God’s love to an island still recovering from the economic impact of Covid-19 on tourism.
~Apply now for the ULTIMATE mission trip adventure coming this winter~
~Team devotionals and worship throughout the trip~
Team size is limited to 20 people EARLY SIGN-UP SAVINGS (WE SAVE AND PASS THAT SAVINGS TO YOU!)
FIRST 3 PEOPLE TO APPLY AND PAY YOUR TRIP IN FULL, PAYS ONLY $1,995.
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Missions Adventure
July 18 - August 3, 2025
$3,975
Nestled in the mountains of northern Thailand, the city of Chiang Mai is quickly developing into an influential voice to the rest of the country, and very open to the gospel. We have partnered with a great missionaries/ministry and a gospel-centered church seeking to continue building a worshipping, gospel community—one that impacts people’s everyday lives through relationships, home-to-home prayer and ministry, worship, red-light district outreaches, church ministry, children's ministry, school and orphanages and more. The gospel can transform lives and through the many opportunities offered to share the gospel, we guarantee that lives will be changed and an eternal impact will be made.
Our village trip to northern Thailand is home to a number of ethnic minority groups known broadly as "the hill tribes," each of which maintains its own culture, language and dress. Centuries-old cycles of poverty have left thousands of hill tribe children without parents, without education, and without hope...we plan on bringing the hope of Christ to the the hill tribes of Thailand.
Our free days will consist of visiting the Patara Elephant Farm (or Mountain Elephant Sanctuary) where we will spend a once-in-a-lifetime day as an "Elephant owner for a day." You will experience bathing and brushing an elephant in the river, bare-back riding your elephant through a forest and to a waterfall, feed and check its health, and learn to communicate with it through certain spoken commands (as seen on The Amazing Race). Other adventures during our free days will consist of shopping at the Chiang Mai gate market, experiencing all the amazing food at the night bazaar, attending a cultural dinner and traditional Thai dance, and be part of an unbelievable full-day of kayaking and caving during our Jungle Tour!
Apply early and be a part of a life-changing time in Thailand, summer of 2025!
~Team devotionals and worship throughout the trip~
Fiji Islands
Clinic Outreach
School and Community Ministry
July 18 - July 31
$4,590
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School and community ministry
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Be an assistant at the free medical and dental clinic
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Participate in home-to-home ministry
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Snorkeling Rainbow Reef and beach day
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Hiking to beautiful waterfalls
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Kayak and view a spectacular sunrise at the mission base
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Experience a Kioa Polynesian village and cultural drum show
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LOTS of volleyball, pickleball, ping-pong, and much more
Come share your talents in the beauty and culture of the Fijian Islands. Whether you are considering some sort of a medical/dental career, nursing, teaching, ministry, or just a student or person with a heart to serve, give, grow, and dig deeper into God's plan for your life...there is a place for you with us in Fiji!
~Team devotionals and worship throughout the trip~
Cusco, Peru
Missions Adventure
May 17 - 28
$3,290
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Community school outreaches and Cusco evangelism
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Food and medicine distribution to remote villages
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Girls home ministry and orphanage outreaches
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Overnight village trip
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Horseback trek in the Andes
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Hot Springs and souvenir shopping the Inca market
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Zip Lining and Machu Picchu free days
Cusco, Peru is such an amazing place filled with cobblestone streets, amazing Incan culture, great cafes and restaurants. 16th century Spanish Baroque style churches are mixed with the ruins of a preserved Incan culture that dominates the historic Plaza de Armas. Our team will stay in a quaint Cusco hotel in the center of Cusco, minister daily in Cusco, outer communities and do off the beaten path outreaches to remote villages. Each evening we will eat out as a team, family-style, in the many different restaurants in Cusco.
~Team devotionals and worship throughout the trip~
Board of Directors
Greg Hughes, Founder and Director
Fort Collins, Colorado
Lisa Hughes, Co-Founder and Administrator
Fort Collins, Colorado
Darren Zander, Board
Erie, Colorado
Debbie Cox, Board
Fort Collins, Colorado
Shelly Higginbotham, Board
Shawnee, Kansas
Vance and Stacey Rogers, Advisors
Corbett, Oregon
Pastor Brett Louis, Spiritual Advisor
Woodbury, Minnesota
Christ Redeemer Church
Todd Louis, Financial Advisor
Dallas, Texas
At present, Greg and Lisa live in Fort Collins, Colorado, with their four children. They enjoy planning and taking groups on mission trips around the globe. Greg and Lisa have been married for more than twenty years and enjoy spending time in the mountains of Colorado.
They believe the mission's life is more than just a short trip overseas...but rather it's the start of a missional journey, where Jesus smashes everything in your life and opens your eyes to a new, fresh, and adventurous passion--a task that is greater than yourself.
Something amazing happens when you sacrifice everything to walk the dusty, foreign soil of a third world country...it's in these lost, dark places that God grabs hold of your soul and lights it on fire!
Jesus demands more than we can ever give, but He offers more than we can ever imagine.
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The board of directors and advisors are comprised of respected and experienced leaders. Accountability for all the resources that God has entrusted Wide Awake Missions begins with our awareness that those who share their time and money with WAM view us as stewards. All funds received are considered sacred. We know donations represent people's faith in the vision of the ministry’s international outreaches.
We know that God sees our every action, and as we listen to the guidance of the Holy Spirit in all that we do, we endeavor to spend our resources according to our core values and mission. Our own board of directors and advisors help guide and review the direction and performance of the ministry.