Short-term mission means experiencing God and His power for yourself, meeting people from different cultures and letting these experiences affect you. You contribute to world mission and benefit from it. With God, you can go to the limits of your possibilities and experience how he uses your commitment to bring the most important message for this world to people. You will rediscover yourself in a missionary situation and gain a new vision.

CFN Albania, Pogradec

We have a center (campus) in Buçimas (a village next to the town of Pogradec) where we run a Bible school, build a church, and also welcome various groups for meetings, camps, conferences and other Christian events. We also have a church in the city and another in the village of Piskupat. Also a social service where we support people in need with practical help.

This placement is also possible as part of an FSJ.

You can find more information about the project here.

Life Spring

Life Spring Church (Kisha Burimi i Jetës) is located in Elbasan, Albania. We are a diverse group of people following Jesus and calling others to do the same. Through weekly fellowship, evangelism, discipleship, English courses and benevolence, we are seeking to be the tangible body of Christ in our local community.

At the moment we are buying and renovating a new building, and starting up a pastry shop.

Fundación Ciudad Refugio

At Ciudad Refugio, we work to restore vulnerable and threatened populations by providing emergency humanitarian aid and comprehensive programmes for people in need.
We run a church, have a homeless shelter, programmes for children and youth (English, music, art), conduct street outreach, have drug rehabilitation for women and men, and run income-generating projects such as a bakery, recycling, food bank, etc.

Las Fuentes International (LFI)

We are Christians who want to help in a practical way. We make our infrastructure, our time and our own resources available to develop, manufacture and deliver technical projects for Christian aid organisations – e.g. drinking water treatment and water supply systems, well accessories, steel structures and electrical engineering.

We travel to different countries to do this.

You can find more information about our project here.

Are you interested? Then get in touch with Rüdiger Fladt: ruediger.fladt@kontaktmission.org
He organises and coordinates the missions and will answer all your questions.

Anvil Ministries brings hope and strengthens families through community work and various projects.

One of our focal points is the development of the Royal Rangers work in Eswatini. Royal Rangers is a discipleship programme for children and young people with a focus on outdoor activities and scouting. Here we organise weekly programmes and leadership training courses, through which we train and support pastors and employees so that they can continue the Royal Rangers work independently in the long term.

Another important project is iLead, a leadership programme, as well as various smaller initiatives and projects that address the specific needs of the communities. In development is a work in a refugee camp, leading the young adult work for our local church here in Eswatini and more.

You can find more information about this project here.

Am Bahnhof der Begegnung

In Rudolstadt (Thuringia), we run a community center that is open to people of all ages. Most of the visitors are young people, so the activity is largely equivalent to open youth work. In addition to supervision, we actively seek conversation. We also offer various events such as church services, lectures, youth meetings with a program, pastoral talks and childcare. We are open to new ideas for the use of our premises at the station. The main aim of the project is evangelization.

Here is a video of our project.

Church Brück

Hello, we are a state church congregation in the Hohe Fläming region with around 900 members. In five churches and three parish halls, we pray to Jesus and entrust our lives to him – in one of the most unchurched areas of our world. Here you can try out and contribute your ideas. The focus should be on the idea of how to address people who largely consider the idea of God to be an invention or something suspicious.

And don’t worry about the state church – our pastor spent several years abroad and was a member of a free church 😉 In Brück you can get to know both worlds.

Hiss family

We run a 3-generation house in Schwanau, a beautiful village on the Upper Rhine. One flat is occupied by a refugee family. There is also a second-hand shop on our property, which supports our projects in Romania. We look after refugees in the village and organise aid transports abroad. The main focus is on supporting people in need and those in distress.

Soli Deo

An international church is being established here in Halle (Saale) in Eastern Germany. We, the Fritz family, work in the leadership team with four other people.

Our areas of responsibility include Working with refugees, working with people from all over the world (families and students). Even though we are an international church, we still have a focus on the people from here (East Germany).

Christianiki Diakonia

We – the Evangelical Church Christianiki Diakonia – are a small, local, multicultural church in the city centre of Thessaloniki. In addition to serving the church, we focus on social and diaconal work. This takes place in two different areas. Firstly, through the Community Centre of our church, with which we want to reach the neighbourhood of the church with the gospel. And secondly, through the Refugee Care Centre, where we are involved in work among refugees together with other churches in the city.

More informationen about the church and the Refugee Care Center.

Mission Kalima was founded in Guinea in 1993 as a non-profit organisation with the aim of proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ and planting churches in every town and village in the country. Mission Kalima’s slogan is: ‘Love – Action – Truth’

In addition to planting new churches and evangelistic campaigns, Mission Kalima promotes self-help projects to meet the needs of the population, especially schools and health centres. There is a pre-school and primary school with around 600 pupils and a secondary school with around 200 pupils on the site. Next to the school is an outpatient infirmary with a maternity ward where patients are treated daily. Various events take place in the large church hall, including the Sunday service with around 250 visitors.

The centre is located at the headquarters of Mission Kalima in the Sonfonia district of Conakry, the capital of Guinea.

FCG Meran

The Freie Christliche Gemeinde (FCG) in Meran is led by two missionary couples and is a church development project. In addition to the Sunday service, there are programmes for children, pre-teens and youth. The youth group consists of both locals and short-term students. Home groups and women’s meetings are also offered.

You can find more information about this project here.

VIVIT

VIVIT is a small, growing organisation in Merano/South Tyrol and works as a “forum for education and encounter” in South Tyrol and Trentino across the boundaries of churches and cultures. Our fantastic team is made up of Catholic and Protestant Christians. Our base is located in the Liebeswerk Meran, a private, Catholic social structure in the centre of Meran. The volunteers also live here.

You can find more information here.

Community Christian Church in Moycullen

Our ministry combines various tasks to build the kingdom of God. We are currently planting two new churches to create spaces for people to encounter Jesus. At the same time, we accompany believers in their discipleship so that they become more like Jesus.

Another focus is evangelism: we share the message of Jesus and invite people into a living relationship with him. We also run a coworking space as a “business as mission” and would like to expand this further in order to inspire people in their working lives too.

Christian Centre “Ganchauskas”

Our centre is available to churches in Latvia for the purpose of organising camps and seminars. We as a team do the work in the background, support the churches and offer some leisure activities. In the summer, during the main season, some young people join our team to support us in this work.

YWAM

The Youth With A Mission team is working with Liberians to build the City of Hope mission station outside the capital Monrovia. It is used as a center of formation and spiritual formation, but also as a place where the Word of God is lived.
Proclamation of the Gospel happens through children’s and youth programmes, sports (football, volleyball) and cooperation with local churches and schools. Due to its quiet location and proximity to the beach, YWAM City of Hope also offers an opportunity to stop and contemplate.

Free Christian Chruch in Alytus

Would you like to get to know a church planting ministry and invest yourself in it with your gifts – and also experience spiritual depth? Then you’ve come to the right place!

We are the Free Christian Church in Alytus in the South Baltics. We are characterised by the fact that most of our members and visitors not only love God and people, but also want more people to experience the life-changing message of God’s love. If evangelism and discipleship (especially among youth and young adults) is on your heart, then get in touch with us!

You can find more information about the project here.

Kaunas Church

We are Kaunas Free Christian Church (Kauno Laivųjų Krikščionių Bažnyčia in Lithuanian).

We are an evangelical church based in Kaunas city center. We believe that church is not a building. The church is people who use their abilities and gifts to serve God and each other. God brought us together into a community, so because of this Kaunas Free Christian Church is closely working with men rehabilitation center, focuses on fellowship in smaller Bible groups and involves all age groups in church life.

You can find more information about the project here.

Mobile Hilfe Madagaskar – MHM

In rural areas outside the capital Antananarivo, we operate a small hospital for obstetrics, children and emergencies, maintain mobile units for maternity care, basic medical care including dental care for villages without state health care and for homeless mothers and children in the streets of the capital.

The project also includes other necessary supply structures: administration with personnel office, finance, IT and communication, technicians for cars, the large emergency vehicles, electricity and electrics (PV systems), wells, water procurement and disposal, medical technology, social work with occupational therapy, kids clubs, kitchen and garden.

You can find more information about this project here.

Hello, we are the Ankers family and we work here in Mauritius at the Lighthouse School. I am German, my husband is British and we have four children (12, 10, 7, 6) who grew up in Zambia. I would say our everyday life reflects the mixture. We bake wholemeal bread, speak a lot of English and almost always walk barefoot. At the weekend we like to go hiking in the mountains and camping, but we also go to the beach from time to time.

Walking on Waters

We founded a church in Limpio in 2023 with the aim of bringing people closer to Jesus Christ. In our project, we also work a lot with children who come from difficult backgrounds. We also want to share the love of Jesus Christ and the Gospel with them.

Paraguay is strongly characterised by Catholicism as well as animism and esotericism, which is why we often encounter exciting challenges in our work.

As the church is still very young, we are currently still expanding and renovating.

Casa Flor de Patapata

A children’s and family project has been growing in Curahuasi in the Patapata residential area since 2023. The children’s club work has evolved into children’s, teen and women’s work with a diaconal and missionary focus in Curahuasi and the surrounding area.

Casa Flor de Patapata is to become a place where children and women can blossom and grow, where they can experience the love of God. We invite you to join us on this adventure. You will have the opportunity to use your talents in an interesting environment in the most creative way, to develop them further and to discover new ones!

You can find more information about this project here.

Christ for Asia – transforming lives

Christ for Asia is a Christian aid organization that works in the Philippines with a focus on marginalized groups, especially street children. Through food distribution, two family centers in socially deprived areas, two children’s homes and a government-accredited school as well as a farm and monthly church services for street children, Christ for Asia aims to give forgotten children the gospel and thus hope and a perspective on life.

You can find more information about the project here.

Asociatia Viata are sens

The main activity of our organisation is therapeutic work with physically and mentally impaired children, adolescents and young adults, which mainly takes place in the House of Light. There is also a therapeutic farm where camps are organised with various groups. To support this work, we run a warehouse for relief supplies and a second-hand bazaar.

Domus

Domus comes from Latin and means “house”. Giving children, adolescents and young adults a home is an important goal of our work. We meet young people, mainly in the Hungarian-speaking area of ​​Romania, who are disadvantaged, on the fringes of society, sometimes even uprooted because nobody takes care of them.

The Schaser family manages the work on site in the center of Romania and is happy about support in many different areas: construction, child and youth work, housekeeping, … We would be happy if you too would become part of the team for a year.

You can find more information about the project here.

PdF Center

The Center is located in the middle of the Carpathians in beautiful nature. It offers camps for up to 120 children, mountain bike and outdoor camps in the summer, ski camps in the winter, and Bible schools in the spring and fall. In between, all sorts of training courses and community camps are offered. The Torchbearer staff is a very international team. The families come from Romania, Canada and Germany. This allows you to practice and educate yourself in all three languages.

You can find more information about the project here.

The Philadelphia association in Romania has long cared for people who are excluded from society. You have also repeatedly taken in such people privately.

For some time now, people have been meeting regularly who want to help these people in a residential community with pastoral and spiritual care. For this purpose, the association “Hoffnungshafen (Port of Hope, Portul Sperantei)” was founded. Very close to Cristian/Sibiu there is a property with several quarry ponds, a residential building, a guest house and a stable for small animals with storage. Some time ago, Matthias Ruopp, head of Philadelphia, was able to buy a smaller part of the property. In order to renovate the guest house and to do various work there, we are happy to invite 1-2 volunteers for a year or groups on a weekly basis to work on this social missionary project. We also lead youth groups, in which your participation is very welcome.

You can find more information about the project here.

Romania – Restore Ministries

Restore Ministries is a branch of the youth mission organization with a mission in Romania. With various works in villages around Sighisoara/Medias we want to give the Roma back hope for their future. Restore was founded in 2013 by Helga Nürnberger. Today we are a team of more than 20 employees and have centers in the villages of Brateiu, Copsa Mare, Seleus, Saros and Prod.

You can find more information about the project here.

Musawe Nkosi

Musawe Nkosi is committed to helping children in South Africa. We have a children’s home that was originally founded as an orphanage, but now takes in children who are referred by social workers for various reasons. We have 40 children in this home. In addition, there is the ‘Feeding Scheme’ where the children can come for meals after school, get help with their school work and hear Bible stories. We are involved throughout the rural area with various projects such as gardening to help people help themselves and at the same time share the gospel.

Sunshine – Refugee settlement in the north of South Sudan

As a team, we live in a large refugee camp in South Sudan on the border with Sudan. The refugees come from a hard-to-reach region a little to the north, many of whom have never heard the good news of Jesus. It is a huge opportunity that they now live in this settlement and that we can bring them the good news!
As we (two families, two women, one man) live in the centre of the refugee camp, we are very close to the people and immerse ourselves in their culture.
We also live in mud huts with thatched roofs, get our water from donkey carts and are mostly on foot. We want to share God’s love with the people here in a holistic way, through friendly relationships, our primary school project, our clinic project that is currently being launched and our children’s programme. The children’s programme takes place once a week, where we teach over 40 children stories from the Bible, act them out, sing and paint with them.

Second Chance

We work among street children who are addicted to drugs or at risk of going onto the streets and taking drugs. Our aim is to admit the children to our rehab centre for detoxification and rehabilitation so that they can rejoin society. Outreaches are made to visit the street children day and night. We also support the children by giving them access to our drop-in centre at any time.

You can find more information about the project here.

Havilah Mission

We are a children’s aid organisation and invest in the future of children in order to break the cycle of poverty. Education is an important part of this. We have 2 children’s homes with 3o children and young people living with us. We have also recently opened our own school. Here we can teach the children from our children’s homes and other children (through school sponsorships). There are also young people in training who we support through sponsorships. Our social workers regularly visit the families.

You can find more information about our project here.

Project Two Five

The mission of Project two-five is to empower people by the grace of God to live their lives with courage, confidence and dignity, to alleviate suffering and improve living conditions. We want to help people realise their hidden abilities and potential in Jesus Christ.
We do this through:

• Vocational schools in four locations offering courses in tailoring, hairdressing, catering, construction, carpentry, agriculture, car mechanics and driving
• Bethel Farm: a demonstration farm showing innovative farming methods and livestock breeding
• Nazareth House: a children’s centre with various community programmes and a sponsorship programme for needy children and their families
• Daniel Project: a programme to pay school fees and run programmes with children in the Rhino Refugee Camp
• Sports programmes: a football club for young men who play in the Ugandan league

You can find more information about our project here.

Uruguay – Epp family

In Montes we started a church in 2017.
We invite you to accompany us on the exciting path of reaching the rather closed Uruguayos in an atheistic and, above all, esoteric-occult society for the gospel!
The varied and flexible everyday life revolves around shaping the upcoming community activities, maintaining relationships and carrying out practical activities.
Your personal service then results from your talents and the upcoming tasks.
You get the opportunity to use your talents in the most creative way in a completely new environment, to develop them further and to discover new ones!

Kwathu Children’s Home

We are a missionary organisation in Livingstone. On the one hand, we consist of a children’s home that is currently home to 26 children aged 3-18 years. There is also a community school on the premises, which ranges from kindergarten to grade 7, as well as a farm with fish farming, vegetables and animals. In addition, there is a daily feeding programme for the children and the neighbourhood as well as street evangelism. Bible classes are also held for children, women and men.

You can find more information about this project here.

Schempp family

We are here to serve the people of Zambia with our professions as mechanics and agricultural engineers. By providing technical support to other missionaries in the country in the form of car repairs, maintenance, help with purchases etc., they can concentrate on their actual tasks on the mission field.

We teach mechanics and agriculture, thus investing in people so that they can have a perspective for the future.

Our three children complete their schooling at home. Carola is therefore happy to receive support from learning assistants.