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The one that works best for your group is the one that is best.
Evaluate your students. Will they do better on a work trip or an evangelism team? Will they do better in small group (youthworks) or is a large group (group workcamps) better? Do you have a mission agency for your denomination?

Visit sites that are within driving distance to see what happens each day.
Contact them ahead of time to see if you can observe a day before singing your group up for a week.

I have used 6 different "agencies" and each fit our need for the time.

 

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OMF does a good job of training, prepping, and sending short-termers to Asia. What kind of opportunity are you looking for?

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I recommend using @MissionTrips to find some good missions organizations and missions trips. http://shorttermmissions.com

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YouthWorks (link below) has been the most simple & painless mission trip planning experience I've had.

The staff has always been amazing and the weeks are very well organized. Perfect for a "just-show-up" style trip.

The groups are big (50+ from various churches) and the attitude of the other groups will effect your trip. We've had weeks where the leaders from other churches were the worst complainers, making the trip less enjoyable.

Now we just prep our students that they might be ministering to the other groups as much as the community we're serving and it's all good.

Every YouthWorks trip I've been on has been a success, that's a pretty impressive record.

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I recommend World Changers. We've used them for our last two missions trips and will do so next year as well. They have a variety of domestic and foreign trips. It is a great thing for me in that a lot of the groundwork/planning is already done. I've just had to worry about a little bit of logistical stuff on my end. They combine the service and spiritual aspects of missions very well, I think.