Previous Trips
Project 1:8 India 08
Mission Team took a team of 9 people to serve in India's largest city Mumbai, in December 08. The team gained exposure to some of the Salvation Army run social programs in the area, as well as serving in the local corps ministries.
Project 1:8 Schoolies Week 08
Mission Team joined the efforts of Red Frogs by sending over 40 Salvationists to be apart of the Schoolies Support network on QLD's Gold Coast in 2008. During our time on Queensland's Sunshine Coast teams spent time helping students clean their room, visiting schoolies, sitting with overly drunk students and their friends and phoning ambulances. The week was an amazing success and all the Salvos were incredibly challenged and moved by the trip.
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Project 1:8 Ghana 08
The 7 Team members worked with Katherine Dale, an Australian Salvationist who runs the Begoro Health Clinic, by helping out where was needed in the clinic. The team was also involved in the local Salvation Army run school, youth and children's ministries and working with Salvationist from the local Salvation Army Church.
Project 1:8 Fiji 08
Mission Team took 3 teams to Fiji in January 08 for 2 weeks of mission. The teams were based in the west of Fiji.
Project 1:8 Rwanda 08
In January 2008 Mission Team sent 7 salvos to serve in Rwanda. In Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, the team spent a week training youth leaders for Rwandan corps. They then went to 2 local corps within Kigali and helped out in their local programs.
Project 1:8 Schoolies Week 07
Mission Team sent 35 salvos to join in the efforts of Hotel Chaplaincy (HC, also known as Red Frogs) for Schoolies 2007. Hotel Chaplaincy is a schoolies support network and have been operating for 10 years. It is unlike any other support network during Schoolies week. We provide a safety net and prevention strategy for school leavers. We know what really goes on and work with a wide variety of other organisations, from Gold Coast City Council to Queensland Ambulance, all to provide the best solutions for school leavers. HC is a volunteer based program made up of many different churches, welfare and community organisations. HC is not a counselling service but rather we are there to help schoolies have a safe time and a good time.
Project 1:8 Philippines 07
Mission Team is sent a team of 10 Salvos to work in Joyville, a Salvation Army owned children's home just outside of Manila. The team spent the first week ministering alongside locals to the beautiful children at Joyville children's home. In the second week the team served in Manila Tondo corps and Manila Central corps where they were involved in feeding programs, street ministry and church activities for the corps.
Project 1:8 Amplify PNG 07
Mission Team sent two Salvos from North Brisbane Corps to PNG for 6 months. With this longer term commitment, they lived in the same conditions as local missionaries as they were involved in the life of a corps within the PNG territory. They were able to participate in a range of activities within the corps, including youth ministry, children's ministry, schools work and visitations.
Project 1:8 Kenya 06
The team ran the Feet First evangelism training program in two locations in Kenya. They also worked alongside the local youth ministry to equip youth and young adults for effective evangelism.
Project 1:8 Schoolies Week 06
Mission Team will once again joined the efforts of Hotel Chaplaincy to be apart of the Schoolies Support network on QLD's Gold Coast. In teams of 4, our Chaplains visit school-leavers in their units and provide a positive role model and even pancakes at times! They were also there to assist in problems encountered by Hotel Management and schoolies as well as directing school leavers to services they required, including Drug and alcohol counselling, Employment Plus or an ambulance.
Project 1:8 Ghana 06 - Health Worker Focused Team
Mission Team sent a team of health workers to Ghana to be involved in a variety of hospital and clinic work. The team used their health related skills to assist children with Cerebral Palsy, Malnutrition and other serious disabilities. They were also involved in outreach and corps work with some of the surrounding local Salvation Army churches.
Project 1:8 Amplify South Africa 06
Mission Team will be sent a team of 4 Salvos to South Africa for 6 months to participate and serve in the corps of Phuthaditjhaba. They were involved in the day to day ministry of the local corps as well as visiting schools, helping with their orphan program, feeding program, home visitations, and assisting with sports clinics, kids clubs and Sunday meetings.
Project 1:8 Schoolies Week 05
This year Project 1:8 Schoolies saw 47 salvos become Hotel Chaplains for the first week of schoolies.
Project 1:8 Botswana 05
The team served alongside local staff and volunteers at the Salvation Army Masiye Camps in Botswana. The camps ran for 5 days for children ranging between six and twenty years old, all orphans affected by AIDS in some way. The team were involved in leading camps that were wilderness type camping along with local camp counsellors.
Project 1:8 South Africa 05
Mission Team sent 5 Salvos back to Phuthaditjhaba Corps in South Africa for 3 weeks in September. The team assisted in Friday kids club, Sunday meetings, a power tool training workshop and Phaphame a Youth event focused on mission through the creative arts of dance and drama. They also worked with VOC (Vulnerable and Orphan Children) in their homework assistance and feeding programs.
Project 1:8 PNG 05
The team was involved in the Territorial Youth Councils in Port Moresby, and then went to the PNG Highlands to lead the Feet First evangelism training program.
Project 1:8 India 05
During the 4 weeks that the team were in India, we visited many Corps and Centres. We saw the work the Army is doing to alleviate poverty through Women’s Self Help Groups, and work the Army is doing with people with HIV/Aids, hospitals, schools, health centres and their Child Development Centres. A number of people from Australia had given us some money to put towards something in India, and that money allowed us to purchase mattresses, towels, pillows, sheets and also repair some furniture for the Valliyoor Boys Hostel.
Project 1:8 Zimbabwe 04
On the weekend of 27/28 November 04, a team of 11 Salvos embarked on a journey to Zimbabwe's Masiye Camp for Youth affected by the AIDS crisis. We were there for almost a month, and worked at two camps. At the first, a 6 -12 year old camp, the aim was simply to show them a really good time, doing fun things like outdoor adventure activities! The 2nd camp was for ages 13+ where we trained campers for leadership roles in their local areas. We also lead a Sunday service at Nkulumane Corps in Bulawayo and visited a hospital wing that housed abandoned babies. Its amazing how such little people can touch your heart is such big ways, in such lasting ways.
Project 1:8 Schoolies Week 04
For Schoolies Week 2004, 35 young Salvos gathered at Surfers Paradise for Project 1:8 Schoolies Week. Over the 10 days there, we experienced sleepless nights, lots of parties, cooking hundreds of pancakes for Schoolies and handing out 4,000 kilos of Red Frog Lollies. The Mission Team was also involved in the High-School Education Program this year, where in the lead up to Schoolies we spoke to 20,000 year 12’s prior to Schoolies Week educating Schoolies and their parents on the safety and security aspects of participating in Schoolies.
Project 1:8 PNG 04
11 Salvos went to PNG from 18th September until 5th October 2004 to train and equip local Salvationists in mission & ministry through the 'Feet First' training program.
Project 1:8 South Africa 04
The 4 weeks in South Africa was absolutely amazing! There were 2 teams, sent to Captains Darren and Colleen Huke, the Corps Officers at Phutadijhaba Corps, and Captain Doug Hammond, Divisional Mission Officer KwaZulu –Natal Division and Nongoma corps.
Phutadijhaba Team
The team that went to Phutadijhaba had many opportunities to minister to youth and children. One of the ministries they were involved included starting a Kids club that the local Sunday school Teachers could continue on after the team had left. A life skills day was held at one of the local high schools where the team taught 500 students on issues such as making Good Choices. The team participated in ministry to the ladies of the corps through Home league and ladies craft. A day trip was taken to Butha Buthe Corps in Lesotho where the team led a church service, kid’s club ministry and ladies craft groups. The team was involved in distributing bread, soup, and biscuits to 400 children at a local primary school.
Nongoma Team
It was an absolute privilege for us to be able to go back to one of the corps we ministered in last year. Nongoma Corps welcomed us with open arms, and we quickly saw some of the fruit of the team which visited there in June 2003. Each morning we would go to one of the local schools and run their school assembly. During the day we would either visit people in their homes to pray for them, or go to the local hospital, which is run by The Salvation Army, and pray with the patients and staff there. We would also spend time in the afternoons playing soccer or some other game with the kids on the church property. And then each evening we would have a prayer meeting. We were also given the privilege to teach on giving. The Divisional Commander found out that 2 of the team were accountants and so they asked us to teach the Corps how to give and how to budget!
Project 1:8 Schoolies Week 03
On Friday 21 November, 23 Salvos from across the Territory joined with almost 600 other Christians on Queensland's Gold Coast for Hotel Chaplaincy. There were also 10 Salvos on the Sunshine Coast. We ended up with 3.3Tonne of Red Frogs on the Coast - it was awesome!
Project 1:8 South Africa 03
In May/June 2003, eight Salvationists from across Australia spent 4 weeks ministering in Corps in South Africa. The team spent the first 2 weeks at eMondlo, a semi-rural township in KwaZulu Natal Province. Our time was spent running School Assemblies, holding a Kids Club with 160 kids & holding night meetings. During the day we visited Aids Orphanages, prayed for the sick and played soccer with the locals who would flock to the church every afternoon. After eMondlo the team spent 5 days at Nongoma Corps, also in KZN, doing school assemblies and visiting hospitals.
Project 1:8 Schoolies Week 02
In November 2002, Mission Team partnered with Hotel Chaplains (HC's) for Qld's Schoolies week. Twelve Salvos were among the 400 Hotel Chaplains ministering to the needs of 40,000 schoolies! In addition to the 400 Hotel Chaplains there were 200 Scripture Union workers and 100 YWAM'ers working across the Gold Coast. It was awesome to be able to get to know and work with so many Christians and to display the unity of Christians.
