Author: Jocelyn Watson, San Diego Missions Mobilizations Director One week during the summer of 2012 I went on a Kaleo Urban Immersion trip to City Heights, San Diego with my church’s high school youth group as a graduated senior. This trip stirred up new vision in my spirit for my own community; and, although my plans for the future did … Read More
May His will be done in Portland
Author: Nico, serving on staff with Kaleo in Portland, OR. When I first heard was offered the Kaleo internship, I admittedly didn’t have much of an idea in terms of what to expect from an intensive, two-month internship dealing with high schoolers on short-term missions. Since I didn’t grow up in the church, I had never been on a “mission … Read More
Go and Serve!
The following is a guest post by Blair Menzel. Her group from Gateway church in Austin served with us in Dallas. On Saturday, I got home from a week-long trip to Dallas with 18 Middle Schoolers and four adult leaders. Since then, I’ve spent a couple of days resting and recovering! (Last night, I went to bed at 9:30pm and got 10 … Read More
What do we mean by relational mission trips?
“As Iron Sharpens Iron, so one man sharpens another” – Proverbs 27:17 At Kaleo Missions you may hear us using the term “relational” to describe the type of ministry we do. We thought it would be helpful to take a minute and define exactly what it means that our urban short term mission trips are “relational” trips. Before we talk specifically … Read More
Called to Love
Author: Tess, serving on staff with Kaleo Missions in Portland. To submit a story or a photo for our Kaleo Missions blog, email blog@kaleomissions.org. The first three weeks at Kaleo Portland have made it clear that God has amazing plans for this summer. Each team that comes through has encountered so much while serving the city of Portland. We’ve been … Read More
Mission Trip Training
Should my youth group train for our mission trip? In our short term missions program, Kaleo is committed to being a blessing to our ministry partners and the people that we serve in partnership with them. As a result, it seems obvious that we would want our mission teams well trained before they show up onsite for the ministry that … Read More
Serving in New Orleans!
Check out this video about Kaleo in New Orleans! We would love to have your group come and serve with us this year. You can contact us for more information at info@kaleomissions.org or register here.
“Have the same mindset as Christ Jesus…”
“Have the same mindset as Christ Jesus…” In Philippians 2, Paul instructs the believers at the church in Philippi to “have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, … Read More