Explore Opportunities to Engage on Mission!
Missions Internship Opportunity: Fall 2026 & Winter 2027
The Cause is recruiting missions interns for two sessions in 2026-2027. Spend 10 weeks (options for more!) serving across multiple USA/Canada locations while building cultural understanding, authentic relationships, and deepening your faith.
You’ll experience pre-deployment training, real ministry in areas like sports ministry, evangelism, and multicultural outreach, plus ongoing mentorship and personal growth. Whether it’s this fall or winter, the training opportunity equips you to serve God’s kingdom with purpose.
For more Information, visit https://tinyurl.com/thecauseopps or contact ssenica@usacanadaregion.org to learn more and apply today.
Introducing Strike Teams!
We are pleased to present Strike Teams, a new Nazarene Mission Teams initiative for rapid-response mission in USA/Canada! The Strike Teams Initiative is a bold regional effort from Nazarene Mission Teams to mobilize passionate individuals from across our local congregations and districts to serve critical needs right here in the USA/Canada Region. Think of it as special ops for the Church of the Nazarene—teams that form quickly, deploy strategically, and focus on strengthening our mission where it’s needed most across our region.
Who are Strike Teams? These aren’t long-term planners waiting for next year’s calendar. Strike Teams are people who say, “I’m available—and I’m ready to go!” Within just one to two months, they’re prepared to assist with urgent needs or strategic projects in USA/Canada. They’re flexible, fast, and focused, always responding where help is needed most in our own backyard.
Who is this for?
* Churches without the resources to launch traditional mission trips
* Individuals ready to serve now, not later
* Districts needing short-term support or rapid response teams
Ready to Learn More? If you’re interested in exploring how Strike Teams can strengthen mission engagement for your church, contact Camilo Gonzalez at cgonzalez@usacanadaregion.org.
Missions Opportunities Around the World
- Select your opportunity! You can pick the Nazarene region you would like to serve on. You also can select by category, including: Compassionate Ministries; Construction; Discipleship; Equipping; Minister Care; Reaching the Unreached; Technology and Communications; Sports; and Medical Missions
- Prepare for the trip! Reach out to Pastor Donabel Martin, WAPAC NMT Coordinator, to help you ensure you’re taking care of the requirements!
- Apply for a WAPAC NMI Grant (as applicable!). We have grants for young adults (ages 18-28) to join a Nazarene Missions Teams trip as well as financial support for a youth ministry group to directly participate in local, national, or global missions projects.
- Prepare your team! View resources to help your team experience God and his people in a new cultural context.
- Go with a heart ready to serve, learn, and love—joining God in what He is already doing through His people.
About Nazarene Missions Teams
Nazarene Missions Teams
You know it as “Work & Witness.” But to mark 50 years of missions work and better showcase the wider involvement of Nazarenes in projects around the world, in 2024 this vital ministry was renamed “Nazarene Missions Teams!”
Nazarene Missions Teams captures all types of projects in which teams can participate, such as Work & Witness, emergency response, evangelism, medical missions, sports, education, compassion, and technology projects. Nazarene Missions Teams is a beautiful way to continue the legacy of the last 50 years and move into a space where more people can use their gifts and talents to serve people and places, joining the Lord and others in fulfilling his mission.
“One of the reasons we changed our name from Work & Witness to Nazarene Missions Teams is that that name implied for many that the team that went were the ones doing the work and they were also the ones doing the witnessing. In reality, the teams going are joining the work that is currently being done; they are joining in the evangelistic efforts already being carried out locally,” says Stephen Sickel, coordinator for partnerships, teams, and projects for Nazarene Global Missions.
From the beginning, it was generally true that the U.S. would send teams to the other regions. However, in the last few years, many other countries have been sending more and more teams all around the world to join God in missions there. In the past year, churches have sent 23 teams from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Germany, South Korea, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Singapore, and Thailand to serve with other congregations seeking to establish stronger work or meet local needs in distant places.
“The name change also was needed due to stricter traveling restrictions,” Sickel explains. “If you say that you are going to do work, that changes the type of visa that is required. If you say that you will be witnessing, in some countries that is not allowed.”
In addition to the new name, the Nazarene Missions Teams registration process has had significant upgrades. Take some time to check out the Nazarene Missions Teams website at the link below. There you can find projects, resources for leading a team, trip insurance information, upcoming events, videos, and Nazarene Missions Teams logos for your church to use to customize your missions information.
Your Church’s NMT Plans
Is your church planning a Nazarene Missions Team trip or are you interested in being part of one? Contact WAPAC NMT Coordinator Donabel Martin.