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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~
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~
Israel ~ Petra
Adventure Mission and Private Tour
June 1 - 15, 2026
$5,375
Join us for a core-shaking, groundbreaking, life-altering trip to Israel. Our team will experience the same deserts, streams and valleys that Jesus, Moses, Jacob, Elijah, Paul, Mary and the disciples walked themselves, centuries ago.
This truly is a once-in-a-lifetime journey
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8-Day private and amazing tour of the Holy Land
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Guided Petra excursion with camels
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Visiting by cable car the historic Masada
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Floating in the Dead Sea
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Qumran Caves where they found the dead seas scrolls
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Optional ceremonial baptisms in the Jordan River
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Visiting the renowned Holocaust AND Israel Museums
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Fantastic 3, 4, and 5 star accommodations throughout & quality restaurants (not all tourist food!)
~Team devotionals and worship throughout the trip~
Greg and Lisa Hughes
Founders/Directors

Founders
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.
Greg and Lisa have made it their passionate mission to help others devise a plan to escape to the harvest field whenever possible, and they urge you, in faith, to join them and their team in enjoying the adventurous life of Christ outside your comfort zone (and time zone).
Credentials
Greg has 30+ years in training, organizing, and taking groups overseas on mission trips, while ministering and exploring over 100+ countries up close and personal.
While attending the University of Northern Colorado, Greg served in many capacities in Young Life, starting as a leader and then as a camp counselor. Afterward, he enrolled in Bible school and earned a degree in Youth Ministry and Missions. He fulfilled the passion of being a Youth Pastor and was called upon to create a stateside and international mission program, becoming the Mission Director of Oneighty, one of the largest youth groups in America. During his first year at Oneighty, he successfully took over 250 students to four countries.
He received specialized training through RUN (Reaching Unreached Nations) in Singapore. The core of this training was learning about effective evangelistic media tools, culturally sensitive discipleship models, and practical skills for helping a ministry to become self-sustaining.
Working as a Project Director for a national mission organization, he has led numerous short-term trips, taking thousands overseas. Greg has traveled the United States, ministering in churches and youth groups, while sharing amazing stories of salvation, healing, inspiration, and grace from the global harvest field.
Greg was also the Co-Founder of Big World Ventures, a youth missions ministry, taking hundreds of teens overseas on various trips.
After selling a business they owned, Greg and his family transitioned to beautiful Colorado, his home state, and began to utilize all of his past experiences, training, failures, and successes to create Wide Awake Missions. This nationwide ministry has been established to fulfill the call of God to “GO” into all the world spreading the good news that Jesus is alive and those that call upon His name will be saved.
Lisa is an Editor and Marketing Manager for Love Justice International. She has a huge heart for God, is the glue that allows all the ministry to thrive and succeed, loves traveling and being a part of any mission trip, is extremely gifted in administration, and enjoys the one-on-one ministry within the dynamics of a team environment.