SUMMER SHORT-TERM TRIP SERIES: SURVEY TRIPS (BANGLADESH)

This is the finale of the Short-Term Trip Summer Series — and we're going to Bangladesh.

Two twenty-five-year-old millennial vloggers named Luke and Paul. A retired sixty-something businessman named John. A Muslim driver and guide. And me. We flew to Dhaka, hired a car, and just started driving south through four districts with eight million Bengali Muslims and almost no long-term workers.

We had a map. We had advice. And we had the Spirit of God who kept saying: turn here, go there, talk to this person, stay here.

The whole trip was documented in ten YouTube vlogs by TwinSauce — Luke and Paul — and I walk you through every stop in this episode. Watch the vlogs alongside the episode for the full experience: the Old City of Dhaka, the kingdom businesses, the Nice Guesthouse in Noakhali, our Cornelius who said "bring your friends, I will take care of them," the ferry boat we may or may not have made, the agricultural district of Patuakhali, the jungle paradise of Jalukhati, the elephant who wanted our money, and the hip-hop dance that went viral in an hour.

Two phrases I say about southern Bangladesh to this day: a beautiful paradise. And generously hospitable.

This is what survey trips do. They make the unknown known. They open doors that cannot be opened any other way. And they make it impossible to look away.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

✔️ Bangladesh Survey Trip Vlog TWINSAUCE Playlist

✔️ Take a Virtual Survey Trip to Bangladesh PART ONE

✔️ Take a Virtual Survey Trip to Bangladesh PART TWO

✔️ Across the Street and Around the World Book

✔️ Training for Short-Term Trips

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🌍 My Global Goer Podcast Page

Send me an email at hello@jeannie-marie.com and let me know how this Short-Term Trip Summer Series changed how you think about short-term trips?

SUMMER SHORT-TERM TRIP SERIES: SURVEY TRIPS

My favorite kind of short-term trip is the one hardly anyone is planning.

The Short-Term Trip called a Survey Trip goes where no long-term workers live. Where if you look up the city in a missions database, you get back almost nothing. Where the people you ask say — no, nobody is working there right now. Not that we know of.

In this episode I define what a Survey Trip actually is — not a Vision Trip, not a Professional Trip, but the specific kind of trip designed to make the unknown known, rip the doors of impossibility off your imagination, and come back with a Caleb and Joshua report: I was there, I saw it, here's what God can do.

Then I tell the story of the Survey Trip that changed my life. Three years of waving around a photo of a white sand beach. A team of six brave, quaking, resolute souls. The kinds of things we did on that first survey trip to an unreached, unengaged people group where no long-term workers lived in the city of a million Muslims.

You'll discover what a Survey Trip IS and how to plan one illustrated by this Survey trip that led my family and I to move there.

I also give you the full Survey Trip objectives list — ten questions to ask yourself that will tell you if a Survey Trip might be what God is asking of you next.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

✔️ Across the Street and Around the World Book

✔️ What Kind of Trip Type are you Planning? Checklist

✔️ Group Training Package for the Inviting Muslims to Follow Jesus Course

✔️ India From the Inside Podcast Episode 12

✔️ Neighbors and Nations Course

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Next episode — the Short-Term Trip Summer Series finale: a survey trip to southern Bangladesh. Two millennial vloggers, a retired businessman, a hired car, and eight million Bengali Muslims with almost no workers. The vlogs are on YouTube and you can watch along.

Send me an email at hello@jeannie-marie.com and let me know what type of trip you're planning and if you'd consider a Survey Trip!

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SUMMER SHORT-TERM TRIP SERIES: PROFESSIONAL TRIPS

Last week I took you to Mumbai to show you what a Vision Trip looks like — the Red Light district, the Dharavi slum, Titus and his chai, the maps-on-the ground prayer meeting. That's a Vision Trip entering as a learner, getting more out than you give.

Today is different. Today is about being useful.

In this episode I walk through what a Professional Trip actually looks like — using a specific skill, at a specific invitation, to accomplish a specific task in service of long-term work that's already happening on the ground. I use Nehemiah as the model: he knew what he was bringing, he knew what was needed, he knew who was already there.

Then I tell real stories across several types of professional trips:

✅ IT professionals serving field workers at overseas conferences

✅ My daughter's trip to the Philippines with me — and Dr. Melissa, a psychologist who showed up to care for exhausted long-term workers

✅ Entrepreneurs and business owners coaching Kingdom businesses overseas

✅ Teachers and trainers offering intensive skill-based training at the invitation of a field worker

✅ Retirees as grandparents and coaches — and why I think this is the most underused category of all

I also give the three cautions for Professional Trips:

❌ Don't go without an invitation.

❌ Don't fold into a vision trip.

❌ Don't go directly to the local population without a cultural intermediary.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

✔️ Across the Street and Around the World — Chapter 7, full Professional Trip ideas list + all three trip type checklists

✔️ What Kind of Trip Type are you Planning? Checklist

✔️ Neighbors and Nations Course

✔️ World Changer Type Quiz

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**Remember: The world is bigger than your zip code. Let's go!**

Next episode: Survey Trips — the rarest trip nobody's planning, and the one that led to me moving my whole family to India.

Send me an email at hello@jeannie-marie.com: Are you a professional or retiree getting ideas of planning a trip like this? Let me know your ideas. I'd love to pray for you.

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