Adults
Adults
The key to an adult trip is to figure out what skills, experience and interests your team, or potential team, have. The choose, or design, a trip around what your team can offer and what your team is interested in learning. Adult teams can be made up of any age or gender. Merge trips are offered all year around, so consider going during an “off” time, when travel may be less expensive, like fall, winter and spring (except March).
If this is your first-ever trip with Merge we recommend Merge Invite trips. These are the easiest options for adult teams. There is less to plan and prepare. Merge already has a basic trip structure planned for you and your team. Once you arrive at your destination, the Merge staff will take care of everything for you.
If you have a larger team (15 or more), have specific dates for your trip which don’t intersect with a Merge Invite trip, want to be a part of the planning process of the trip, or have creative and unique ideas for your trip, then consider going on a Merge Design trip. This also may work better if your team has a specific skill to offer (medical, dental, veterinary, teachers, construction, financial planning, website developers, sewing, etc.)
If you desire for the adults, small groups, or other entities of your church be engaged in inter-cultural conversations throughout the year, but are unable to physically take a team on a trip for various reasons, then Merge Connect is for you. We can organize and implement three one-hour virtual conversations between any group in your church and a Global Church group of similar make-up (men to men, women to women, seniors to seniors, etc.).
Adult teams with experienced construction workers are extremely valuable on Merge Respond trips. It sometimes takes years for a community to rebuild after a disaster, and our goal is to help supply professional-level volunteers to help.