As a parent, you want your teen to grow spiritually, connect with other Christian teens and have an impact on the world around them—all in a safe, supervised environment you can trust.

Let us provide your teen with a valuable missions experience unlike any other!

Our History

Brio Magazine has taken students on mission trips since 1996 with the first trip to Bolivia. We've taken several thousand teens to Brazil, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru. It's our prayer that God will work in the lives of our teens to produce eternal changes and even call some of them into full-time ministry.

We use Big World Ventures®, a nonprofit Christian organization that specializes in planning short-term missions trips for teens and churches, to custom-design our trips per our specifications. What are those specifications?

• We never use public transportation but charter our own buses.
• Teens are allowed to bring cell phones and call home.
• Shower and toilet facilities are available.
• We recruit qualified Christian adults to fill the sponsor roles.
• We all stay together in one large hotel that will be a safe and comfortable environment.

Big World Ventures also handles the details of food and lodging, sight-seeing, international flight reservations, recruiting Christian interpreters and church representatives to follow up on new converts, reserving buses for ministry travel once in the country, scheduling ministry events for each day and arranging a shopping excursion. You can learn more about Big World Ventures.

Accommodations

In Ecuador our entire group will be staying at a hotel that will be secure, spacious, and perfect for Missions!

Meals

Meals will be provided by the Hotel where we stay. For off-site ministry days, we'll pack lunches to go-we provide, bread, fruit and water and the missionaries bring peanut butter and jelly. Unfortunately, we cannot arrange meals for vegetarian and special diets.

Transportation

Private chartered transportation will be provided at all times. No public transportation will be utilized.

Application Process

If your teen is between the ages of 13 and 19, they're eligible to be considered for the BRIO Mission Trip! Just help your teen download and complete a Student Application located in the Apply section of this site.

Your teen will receive an acceptance letter approximately two weeks after Big World receives the complete application.

If you're interested in serving as an Adult Leader please fill out the Adult Leader Application Form in the "Apply" section of this site.

If you are College Age and would like to be an Associate Leader, please fill out the Associate Leader application.

Important Application Information for Parents!

Please ensure that your teen sends his or her entire completed application packet with the application fee ($45 for students/$55 for adults), to:

Brio Missions 
c/o Big World Ventures 
P.O. Box 703203 
Tulsa, OK 74170-3203