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Top 5 Road Trips to Connect with Wonder
Wonder Voyage Executive Director Shawn Small reflects on his family's tradition of road trips and highlights 5 great Wonder Voyage road trip options. Ready to travel? Wonder is closer than you think.
Read More Wonder Voyage Update: Preparing Now For Future Travel
Though 2020 has brought travel to a halt, Wonder Voyage is working hard to prepare to thrive in the coming years. Check out all that we've been working on.
Read More Video: Growing Up Wonder Voyage
Many churches return to Wonder Voyage year after year for another epic experience. In this short film, we follow one church as they prepare for their 14th pilgrimage.
Read More Mission Trip or Pilgrimage: A Definition
Short term missions has become big business. Wonder Voyage started twenty years ago because, at the time, a good number of trips through mission organizations were being carried out in ways that were were unnecessary, unethical, and in bad taste. The only pilgrimage offerings, at that time, were from travel agencies that booked a local…
Read More Back to Travel: Shawn Leads a Team to Montana
Wonder Voyage Executive Director Shawn Small shares his recent adventure to one of our newest continental US locations: Montana. Ready for a road trip?
Read More Video: Moments of Wonder
Wonder Voyage Guide Antonio Duarte shares his testimony and how a moment of wonder changed his life.
Read More The Birth of the Encounter Moment
The word Encounter was birthed on Wonder Voyage's maiden trip 20 years ago. This is the story of how Shawn and Michael Fleming coined the term following a divine experience in a mile-long underground tunnel in Ireland.
Read More The Future of Travel
Travel is vital to our souls. What does the future look like to a world that longs to travel?
Read More An Tobar Nua Book
In 2001, I was preparing to lead five groups from the United States to Galway, Ireland on pilgrimages. There was one big problem. Even though I had visited a good bit of Ireland, I’d never been to that part of the country. Through a mutual friend, I learned about Kelly and Susan Curry, a couple…
Read More Acres of Diamonds
In 2012 I had the privilege of producing and directing my first documentary film Ru: Water is Life. We raised appr. $30,000 and shot for two weeks in South Sudan. The experience was beyond anything I could have imagined. By 2015 Ru: Water is Life had been in 15 film festivals, was screened to tens of thousands…
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