The Big Year Out

A key part of the Big Year Out is the mid-year cross-cultural exposure trip, designed to immerse participants in another culture and to experience what life and faith are like for Christians in that culture. The BYO trip to the Philippines in 2008 was a life-changing event for those who went.
In 2010 we will be [...]

Recently the group of us on this journey we call the Big Year Out travelled to the Philippines for a mission exposure trip. One of the steps in preparing was to obtain an Australian passport, which led me to the question of what it means to be an Australian citizen. As an Australian citizen there [...]

Sounds like the group are getting to experience Typhoon season! It has been very wet and windy but all are safe. They are moving on again today and their trip has 9 days to go. I think they have experienced more church services in the last week than they have ever in their life. It [...]

The group has been in the Philippines for 6 days so far and it doesn’t sound like they have had much time to rest! The first day they arrived, after locating lost baggage, they went to Smokey Mountains to visit a village which has been built on a rubbish dump. Most said it was very [...]

The Big Year Out gorup left Adelaide early on Saturday morning 6 July for a three week visit to the Philippines. The group, led by Lyn Leane and Andrew Robertson, is visiting the North Luzon district of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines. During their visit, they will attend worship in Manila, visit [...]

This week we have been talking to Uniting Church international mission staff, and we have agreed to explore taking the Big Year Out group to the Philippines rather than Thailand in July 2008. There are a few reasons for this. We are committed to working with our local partner churches overseas, and don’t want to [...]

From 5th to 27th July 2008, the BYO group will travel overseas for a 2½ week cross-cultural mission exposure trip. This will be a fantastic time of experiencing life in another culture, and learning about the faith and mission of Christians in another part of the world.
We are negotiating for this trip to take place [...]