Most New Year goals focus on personal gains—gym routines, budgets, or schedules. But what if your goal could reach beyond yourself and truly matter? A new year mission trip offers a chance to volunteer in Colombia, serving children while deepening your faith in meaningful ways. This isn’t about quick fixes; it’s about setting a purpose that lasts far longer than January.
When New Goals Need Deeper Meaning
Finding Purpose Beyond Resolutions
Each January, millions of people make resolutions that often fade by February. But what if this year could be different? What if instead of focusing solely on personal improvement, you set goals that change lives – not just your own?
Many of us feel a pull toward something more meaningful. We want our faith to take action, to make a real difference in the world. This yearning for purpose isn’t just a feeling – it’s a calling that deserves attention.
Faith-Based Goals vs. Personal Resolutions
Service as Spiritual Growth
While there’s nothing wrong with wanting to improve yourself, faith-based goals offer something deeper. Instead of just tracking steps or saving dollars, you can count smiles, hugs, and moments of hope you bring to children who need them most.
When you volunteer in Colombia with a faith-based nonprofit, you’re not just checking a box – you’re living your faith in tangible ways. This kind of service becomes spiritual formation, shaping your heart as you serve others.
Why Mission Trips Are a Powerful Way to Start the Year
Setting a Tone of Giving
A new year mission trip sets a powerful tone for your entire year. It helps reset priorities and puts into action what often remains just good intentions. By stepping out of your comfort zone to help children in Colombia, you create momentum that carries through the months ahead.
The beauty of mission work isn’t in what you accomplish in a week or two – it’s in how it changes your perspective for the other 50 weeks of the year. Your presence matters to the children you serve, and their presence in your life will matter to you long after you return home.
Serving Children in Colombia: A Goal with Eternal Impact
Making a Lasting Difference
When you focus on serving children in Colombia, you invest in something with lasting value. These children need stability, love, and hope – things that can’t be wrapped and put under a tree, but that make all the difference in their lives.
Even short-term volunteers support important long-term work. Each person who comes to serve adds to the consistent care these children receive. Your time there matters because you become part of their story of healing and growth.
How The Emiliani Project Helps Turn Calling into Action
Joining a Mission with Heart
The Emiliani Project is a faith-based nonprofit grounded in a deep, abiding faith in Jesus Christ. We believe that following Jesus means loving sacrificially, serving the vulnerable, and caring for “the least of these” with compassion and humility. Founded by veterans and inspired by Saint Jerome Emiliani (the patron saint of orphaned children), The Emiliani Project exists to put faith into action by providing long-term care, stability, and hope to children who need it most.
When you volunteer through The Emiliani Project, you join a community of people who share your values and your desire to serve. You’ll find structure, support, and meaningful ways to help that align with your faith and skills.
Is This the Year You Say Yes?
Taking the First Step
If you’ve been feeling that tug on your heart to do something meaningful this year, perhaps this is your moment. Serving children in Colombia could be the most important goal you set this year.
Don’t worry about having all the answers or skills – just bring your willingness to serve. The children don’t need perfection; they need presence and care.
Ready to make this new year truly new? Consider joining a mission trip to Colombia. Your life will never be the same – and neither will theirs.
Visit our volunteer page to learn about upcoming opportunities to serve. This could be the year everything changes!
