The Yes Trip

Surrounded by children, Rwanda
The Yes Trip
Just one big — YES.

The Yes Trip is one mission a year for people who said yes once and couldn’t stop. Real work, real relationships, lasting change. You don’t need to be a missionary. You need to be willing.

The Yes Trip is not service from a distance. It is a mission journey built on partnership  —  walking alongside local leaders already doing meaningful work in their own communities.

Expect real work.
Real relationships.
Real change  —  in the world, and in your soul.

Say YES carefully.

It may change everything.

Bill on a Rwandan construction worksite alongside local workers
Rwanda. Building what stays after you leave.

You come to give. You leave with more than you brought. A Yes Trip isn’t a vacation with a halo. It’s a week of working alongside people who change you while you’re trying to change something. The buildings stay. So do the friendships.

Elaine speaking to a community gathered in the courtyard
The voice. The crowd. The dust at dusk.

You stand under a different sky. Talk to a child who knows things you don’t. Hold someone’s hand at a funeral. Pray with a pastor who hasn’t had a day off in five years. You come home a witness.

You will dance with strangers.
Carry wet babies.
Laugh in languages you do not speak.
Be pulled into games, songs, meals, prayers, and stories you could never have planned.

This is how the family of God gets bigger in your heart.

Not as an idea.

As people.

Bill Smith hugged by five African schoolchildren

Bill Smith.

“This is my favorite moment from all of our trips, I kept saying I’ve got longer arms and the kids kept pulling in.”

— Bill Smith, Founder

HEAR.

Your soul waking up.

GO.

Follow the yes.

SERVE.

Give your time, your hands, your heart.

CARRY.

The people, the stories, and the shift that follows you home.

Some yesses change you for the rest of your life.

Bill and Elaine at Life Link Church, Gilbert

The first Yes Trip we ever led, we came home knowing the trip had led us. Not the other way around. We’ve been going back ever since — because the people we met there are still ours, and we are still theirs.

Now Show Me.

— Bill & Elaine

You belong to our pride.