Experience MissionReviews of experiencemission.org

I served in NY and Portland, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience with the EM Support staff, Community Partners, Team Leaders, and the Visiting groups. I've been given the wonderful opportunity to get to know a community unlike my own, expanding my lens on cultural groups, Christian denominations, leadership roles, and social abilities. I am glad to have developed lasting relationships, thus building my network.

Experience Mission is truly a blessing! The staff members all led with grace and kindness, always ready to serve with a warm heart. Their resources were practical, thoughtful, and incredibly helpful for our team. What stands out the most is their partnership with the community — loving, genuine, and deeply impactful. It’s truly inspiring to see the way they live out their faith through their actions and care. I enjoyed my time serving in Kentucky and Tennessee, and I will deeply cherish the relationships that I made throughout the summer. I'm so thankful to have come across this opportunity!

I was an intern serving in Eastern TN. I appreciate EM for how they responded to issues that arose in the team and the grace they showed. I love that you could tell that they truly valued people over projects. I felt slightly unprepared as far as what to expect being a leader. I do learn better when I am in the thick of it, so I can't complain much about that. I loved the other interns I worked with, and I do feel like EM put in a lot of thought into personality matches for my team specifically. Even when we disagreed on professional stuff, we still truly were friends and enjoyed each other's company. I do recommend EM, but you should be prepared and confident in your leadership abilities because you're not just representing EM you're ultimately representing Christ.

I thought we had a great experience! Hope and Zach (our experience mission staff) were great to work with and we got a lot out of the trip. For our team and where are students are, I felt this was a good “intro to missions” sort of trip for them which is what I was looking for. My favorite thing about Experience Missions was the way they present their role within the larger work of sharing the Gospel and how serving people’s needs fits into that picture for each individual that partners with them. Loving people well, being the hands and feet of Jesus, and meeting people where they are. I felt the devo and worship time was good, but it could have been a little more streamlined between my self as the youth pastor and the experience missions team that was there. They had good stuff to say and I also had some Bible study stuff I wanted to do with our students, and between the two of us I think it was a little too long sometimes. I certainly could’ve been more prepared, but I wasn’t sure what exactly to expect in that time so it made planning difficult. I still think we had good time with the students and really enjoyed the wisdom Zach and Hope shared. I would certainly recommend experience missions to other youth pastors or churches looking for a solid organization to partner with.

They had a great mission philosophy and heart posture. The rest figured itself out.

Over all it was a good experience. I was one of the interns in Marion North Carolina and we had the opportunity to help a lot of people still recovering from hurricane Helene. I really appreciate how Experience Missions focused on the relationships that are formed in the communities. I would also like to say if you are planning to do an internship with Experience Missions. It is a lot of responsibility and you will need to know how to lead.

Excellent logistics. Excellent on-site staff. Great host church in Marion, NC.

Leaders were awesome, flexible, and great to work with.