Adult Trip Participant Guidelines



  1. Trip Participants must advise the Mission Trip Director or his appointee if you will be going somewhere outside of the hotel, mission site, or away from the group. Trip participants need to stay with the group they are assigned at all times and not stray.


  1. Trip Participants may not take with them, possess, use, or consume;

Alcohol Silly String (flammable)

Illegal Drugs Laser Pointers

Tobacco Products Fire Crackers/Sparklers

Matches/Lighters Sexually Explicit Materials

Knives


  1. Smoking is discouraged but is permitted in designated areas only. At no time should smoking occur near or in view of orphans, children in the shelter, teenagers in the transition home, or trip participant children.


  1. Trip Participants need to use the hotel phones for personal calls. If there is a need to use a cell phone, do not ask a translator unless it is an emergency. Translators have to pay for each minute used unlike cell phones in the USA.


  1. Trip participants are encouraged NOT to stay up late in the evening sharing stories or talking loud in the hotel room. Trip participants are encouraged to be in their own room by 10pm and go to sleep by 11pm so they will be refreshed to perform ministry the next day.


  1. Trip participants are not allowed to drink sodas, eat snacks or meals in front of orphans and children in the shelters as a matter of respect and politeness.


  1. Trip participants are encouraged not to bring shopping bags to the ministry sites. Items purchased should fit in your backpack. It sends the wrong message to orphans and orphanage directors if we are seen with large shopping bags filled with gifts to take back home, when their needs are so great.


  1. Trip participant that are bringing children are encouraged to keep the child close to the parent or hold hands at all times when traveling on the streets, in the metro, and in all other public transportation.


  1. Trip participants are responsible for preventing destructive or inappropriate behavior by trip participant children or others.


  1. All information received regarding medical, orphan status, or family background is privileged and is to remain confidential.


  1. Trip participants may not stay in the homes of a translator, rent an apartment, or stay somewhere else other than the mission trip planned hotel without the approval of the Director of SAC.