Blog Category: Wonder Voyage Stories

Wonder Voyage Guides earned 98% positive reviews during Summer travel for 2022! Group leaders boasted that their group grew closer together, broke through cliques, became more mission-minded, and gained new perspectives. Check it out!

Wonder Voyage Executive Director Shawn Small shares the five essentials of post-pandemic travel. From buying local to serving the community, we must adapt to if we want our future journeys to be sustainable, enjoyable, and leave things better after we depart.

Molly Wren shares an experience with wonder on a summer voyage when a group of refugee students had an experience that made them feel heard, understood, and not quite so lonely in a location no one would have expected.

Executive Director Shawn Small shares how COVID changed the perspective of this summer's pilgrims and equipped them to experience the sublime in a beautiful new way.

One of the elements that separate a good pilgrimage from a great one is a team's willingness to delve into the story of the location. In this introduction to Narrative Voyages, Executive Director Shawn Small shares why story is so powerful.

Legacy Voyages headed to New Orleans in April to see how their gifts are impacting the area through the YWAM base. While there, the team took in all the sights, sounds, and flavors NOLA has to offer during an unforgettable weekend.

Considering planning your group's next pilgrimage or mission trip yourself? Wonder Voyage Executive Director Shawn Small walks through the debate over penny-pinching when it comes to team travel.

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…

Executive Director Shawn Small shares his story of finding wonder even in the most personal of disasters in this third installment of his adventures in the Amazon.

Executive Director Shawn Small shares his story of when his child-like wonder of an Indiana Jones-style adventure becomes his reality.