Love Packages Mission Trip

Dates: June 15–21, 2025
Location: Love Packages Headquarters – Butler, Illinois
Who Can Go: Current 8th Grade Students through College-Aged Young Adults
Cost: $300
Spots are limited – Sign up today! 

SIGNUP DUE: Sunday, May 4 - $150 Deposit

Join the Mission. Change the World.

This summer, Encounter Students and LPC College are hitting the road for an unforgettable week of service and spiritual growth. We’re partnering with Love Packages, a ministry that sends donated Christian books and Bibles around the globe to places where access to God’s Word is scarce.

For one week, we’ll be serving at their Butler, Illinois location, sorting and packing literature that will bless churches, pastors, schools, and believers in over 150 countries. You’ll get to be the hands and feet of Jesus—making an eternal difference in someone’s life, simply by helping the Word of God get into their hands.

Trip Details

• Departure: Sunday, June 15, right after the 11:00 AM worship service. Bring a packed lunch and all your gear to church!

• Return: Saturday afternoon, June 21

• Housing: On-site group lodging at the Love Packages campus (separate accommodations for guys and girls)

• Meals: All meals included (Sunday dinner – Saturday breakfast)

• Service Days: Monday through Friday we’ll work at Love Packages organizing, boxing, and preparing literature for shipment

• Fun Night: On Friday night, we’ll head into St. Louis to watch the Cincinnati Reds play the St. Louis Cardinals—a night of fun, fellowship, and America’s favorite pastime.
  
  

Cost Breakdown

• $300 per student includes:

  • Transportation

  • Lodging

  • All meals

  • Baseball game ticket

  • Trip supplies
    
    

Scholarships may be available—talk to Andrew if cost is an issue.

Why Go?

Because God is still calling His people to go into all the world—and this trip is one way you can answer that call. You'll form deeper friendships, grow in faith, and help spread the gospel around the world without ever needing a passport.

Who Can Go?: The 2025 Encounter Mission Trip is open to all current 8th - 12th graders, college students, young adult alumni and parents. Due to the nature of the trip, space will be limited. Current 8th - 12th graders will have first priority over college young adults (who aren't currently Encounter leaders.) College students, young adult alumni and parents will be asked to provide leadership on the trip and will be required to submit to a background check, training and sign a leadership covenant.

How do I sign up?

Follow this Link & Get your deposit in... to Andrew

Payment Schedule:  For Total Cost $300

Sunday, May 4 - $150 

Sunday, June 1 - $150 Remaining Trip Payment Due ($300 if you did no fundraising)

Please don’t let money be the reason you do not go. Talk to Andrew (the sooner, the better).

Will there be Fundraising or Scholarships?: We will raise money together through a variety of fundraising and we hope that money would not be an issue for any student, if it becomes an issue there are scholarships available please talk to Andrew (see below). We can also work out a structure payment plan to make up the balance.

Rummage Sale Week
Sunday 27 - Table Setup
Monday - Friday 3:30 - 7p

MAY 3 RUMMAGE SALE 8 - 6:30p (Work 2 - 7p)

Fundraising, Important and Mandatory Dates:

Sunday Sunday 27 - 7pm Table Setup
Monday, April 28 - Friday, May 2 3:30 - 7p

MAY 3 RUMMAGE SALE 8 - 6:30p (Work 2 - 7p)

Mission Trip Meetings

Pre-trip meetings: We will meet together between now and the trip to prepare the students to work and live together in a cross-cultural environment. Students and Parents MUST commit to these dates; any conflicts should be mentioned on the previous page and will be considered when reviewing the student’s application. Parents = Parents, Trip Family = Trip Participants, Leader = non-High School. Zoom option for out of town participants.

Meeting Times:

Wednesday, May 21 - Mission Trip Meeting Students, Leaders & Parents 8:00 pm

Sunday, June 8 - Mission Trip Meeting Students, Leaders & Parents 9:00 am

Withdrawal or Removal from team:

If you need to withdrawal from the trip you  will be responsible for the remaining balance of your airfare ticket.

If there is someone on the waiting list who desires to take your spot you will be responsible for the airline ticket

name transfer fee. Withdrawal must occur before the purchase of the airfare. If you need to withdraw after the date you are responsible for the remainder of the non-refunded airfare ticket.

The adult leadership team, at their discretion, has the right to remove any student from the team at any time. Reasons for removal include but are not limited to: inappropriate behavior; missing meetings; a rebellious spirit; and so on. If this action takes place after the purchase of the tickets you are still responsible for the non  refunded cost of the trip.

Questions:

Email Andrew@lebanonpresbyterian.org

*(This is a high estimation and will be adjusted as costs are known)