Neighborhood Mission Trips for Everyday Christians , reimagines the mission trip not as a distant excursion but as a walk across the street. It’s a book for ordinary Christians who want to live missionally, starting in their neighborhood.  This book is a practical, devotional-style guide that empowers Christians to see their own neighborhood as a meaningful mission field. Written for individuals, small groups, and churches seeking to reimagine outreach, this book brings the structure of a short-term mission trip into everyday life—without passports or plane tickets. Combining Scripture, personal stories, devotionals, and practical guides, this book equips individuals and churches to cultivate deeper relationships, overcome social isolation, and love their literal neighbors in tangible ways. This is not a theological treatise or a feel-good collection of ideas. It’s a blueprint. Readers are walked through a week-long neighborhood mission trip complete with daily themes, ...

G.K. Chesterton once said, “We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.” It’s a quote that stings a little, especially when you think about that neighbor—the loud one, the grumpy one, the one who never waves back, or always parks too close. Unlike our friends, we don’t get to curate our neighbors. But according to Chesterton, we’re not supposed to. The people who live right next to us, behind us, across the street—they’re not there by accident. As Christians, we believe in providence. That means we believe that God has a purpose not just for our lives, but for the people placed in our lives, even if those people are awkward, difficult, or just very different. We love talking about “mission fields.” Sometimes we even fly across the world to serve strangers. But often, we ignore the mission field that shares our fence line. The truth is, the most powerful witness many of us will ever have isn’t a sermon—it’s a conversation in the driveway, a shared me...