Enrollment Deadline: April 6, 2027
Trip Location: Yambio, South Sudan
Trip Leader: Jodi Ashcraft
Trip Cost: $4,900
Trip Description:
Yambio sits in Western Equatoria, in the far southwest of South Sudan, and it is home to one of Empower One’s flagship centers. Through seasons of real insecurity, pastors and church planters there have kept training leaders and preaching in villages, and the church has grown. The women of these churches have been an important part of this ministry.
Our team will spend several days alongside the women of Yambio and the surrounding churches for a conference built around biblical leadership training, counseling and care training, and worship and prayer. Teaching sessions, small group time with interpreters, and worship together will fill the days. The counseling and care piece matters here. Many of the women we will be with are the ones their neighbors come to first. They are already caring for grieving mothers, displaced families, and children who have seen too much. We want to give them tools, and we want to learn from them.
Who should come:
You don’t need to be a Bible teacher to come on this trip. We are putting together a team of women with a mix of gifts, and we need all of them. If you can organize a room full of people and a schedule that keeps changing, we need you. If you pray with people well, we need you. If you lead a small group, have walked with someone through hard things, or know how to make a stranger feel seen, there is a seat for you. Teachers, licensed counselors, administrators, worship leaders, encouragers, discipleship mentors, and the woman who notices who got left out of the circle are all needed. The gifts God has given you are the ones we are looking for!
You will be partnering with the Empower One African Women’s Leadership Team and the women of Yambio in work they are already doing. Expect to be stretched, to laugh more than you planned, and to come home
with names you will be praying for a long time.