PRAXIS Vancouver

Be With God: The foundation of a PRAXIS trip is our life with God. We’ll learn spiritual practices to help us meet with Jesus, while inspiring and sustaining our missional habits.

Grow in Community: We will live, serve, and reflect on our experiences as a team. Past participants have described this missional community as transforming, challenging, and healing.

Live on Mission: Together we will demonstrate and describe the good news of Jesus in ways that honour people and lift up the ongoing work of our local partners. Ministering to vulnerable populations requires care and awareness, so our days will be a mix of learning and serving, sometimes behind-the-scenes and other times directly with people. Last February, we partnered with organizations like Union Gospel Mission, Belkin House and Inner Hope Youth Ministries.

Are you ready to join God in his work of renewing and restoring all things? Join us on PRAXIS!

Read this blog post from Gabrielle, reflecting on her PRAXIS Reading Week experience.

Crafting missional habits takes time! For a longer, more formative experience, consider PRAXIS Hamilton.

What happens on PRAXIS?

A typical day could look something like this:

Morning

You grab breakfast from the kitchen before joining your team for morning prayer. Together, you reflect on Revelation 20-21. Each day of this trip has brought different examples of how people are already living into this vision of God’s kingdom. It’s also brought a deep sense of longing—and hope—for the renewal of all things.

Today’s activities are focused on newcomers to Canada. A P2C-Students staff member shares how Jesus was a refugee and how he crossed cultural barriers to show and tell the good news.

Afternoon

Your team eats a quick lunch and transits to Journey Home Community, an organization that provides short-term housing and other supports to refugee claimants. One of their staff shares about the many ways they come alongside newcomers and you’re inspired by the practical ways they are living out their faith in Christ.

Your PRAXIS team has come prepared to cook and serve a meal, and you spend the afternoon making wraps and mixing juice. As you serve dinner, you joke with a kind man from Haiti. He shares with you about what his life was like before he fled to Canada, and you realize you know very little about this country that’s not very far away. You feel challenged to pay more attention to what’s happening around the world, and you wonder if your city has anything like Journey Home Community.

Evening

You end the day by gathering with your team to process your experiences. For example, while one of your teammates spoke to an Indian refugee with a newborn son, she kept thinking about baby Jesus as a refugee. She understood in a new way how Jesus could say, “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”

You reflect on such lessons as you climb into bed, anticipating another day of missional learning and Christ-shaped witness.

How is the PRAXIS Vancouver mission trip funded?

The cost of each Mission Trip includes orientation, all ministry-related expenses, debrief, housing, meals, and administration. You will have the option to raise additional funds to cover your travel to Vancouver.

Once accepted, we will provide coaching and training on how to invite people to financially and prayerfully partner with you. Support raising can be an opportunity for you to grow in faith by trusting God to provide. It also gives your community the opportunity to join in what God is doing.