Have you ever been on a mission or humanitarian trip to a foreign country? Maybe your journey began something like this: You listened quietly as a visiting missionary passionately shared about their adventures, trials and triumphs. Or, perhaps you saw a photograph of a child or a group of people looking desperately needy and you asked yourself, ‘how can I just go about my life without doing something?’ Possibly you read a magazine article about places far away and people in spiritual darkness and it seemed obvious to you - someone should go and help them…but who?

The desire to go overseas began like the proverbial mustard seed and grew to fill your soul. It just wouldn't leave you alone. For awhile you resisted the draw to missions work and rationalized your decision with logic, but the feeling kept growing stronger. Finally, the frustration was too much and you decided to have it out with God in prayer once and for all. All of your struggles melted into peace as you yielded to the Spirit and decided to venture out.

Now comes the preparation time. The excitement builds and the pieces begin to fall into place. You get a sense that God is so behind this that there are special angels assigned to help you. Then, a stark reality drops over you like a cold, wet blanket: "How do I get there?"

International air travel is not only expensive, but it is confusing and totally unfamiliar to most people. How does one handle this part of the journey? How do you book the air ticket without spending all of your support money or getting stuck with restrictions that don't work for you? There are plenty of resources for the leisure and business traveler, but is there anything out there for the missionary or humanitarian?

Introducing Missionary/Humanitarian Fares
Established solely to help missionaries and humanitarians get where they are called to serve, these special fares are uniquely designed to meet the needs of the mission-minded traveler. In a nutshell, the benefits include discounted prices, extra baggage allowance, more lenient change/cancel fees, stopovers, one-way fares and long-stay fares. These are now available on our web site at www.christiantravelfinder.com, which allows you to book these fares online. To ensure that you are getting the best fare available, this web site will also search every published fare offered on 700+ airlines worldwide. If flight schedules or specific airlines are important to you, the web site has tools to let you pick and choose.

The savings for missionary fares begin with discounted prices from privately negotiated airfares on over 35 different airlines. These discounted fares can be up to 40% off the regularly-priced published fare. Trips can originate anywhere in the world and stopovers are allowed along the way, usually for free or for a nominal surcharge. Please note that there are times, due to destinations or seasons, that missionary fares may not be available for the flights you want.

More savings result on special missionary fares because these fares often allow a third piece of checked baggage absolutely free. This means you can bring those extra supplies or donated goods without paying a big overage charge at the airport.

What about change/cancel penalties? Even more savings are ahead when you purchase a missionary fare. You see, when you buy a low-priced published fare directly from the airline, you are almost always getting a highly restricted or non-changeable, non-refundable ticket. Not so with missionary fares. The change penalties for these low, discounted fares tend to be more flexible with minimal change penalties.

Moreover, when buying a regular published fare from the airlines, one-way fares are frequently more expensive than a roundtrip ticket. This is not the case with missionary fares, which are usually a percentage of the roundtrip fare. Similarly, long stays (one year) are generally a very high-priced entity when purchased directly from the airline. Missionary fares tend to be the same price whether staying for one week or one year.

Finally, it's good to know that you can oftentimes book a missionary fare for travel from other countries to the U.S. or between two foreign countries. These fares truly have the global missionary and humanitarian in mind and save you money.

To book a mission or humanitarian trip online at www.christiantravelfinder.com, travelers are required to list their organization name or church and non-profit status so that it can be validated against national databases. Missionaries and humanitarian travelers can book air travel the easy way and save money, letting the web site search millions of fares to find the best deal.

Bon voyage!