Alternative Mission Trips

Heifer's Learning Centers offer programs that are a must for anyone looking to take action to end hunger and poverty and care for the Earth. Not mere lectures, alternative mission trip programs provide experiences with the challenges of living with hunger and poverty. Participants develop a deeper understanding of the complications that hunger and poverty present, and become inspired to create change that brings possibility and hope to the world.

Each Heifer Learning Center location offers a variety of programs that range in length from from a couple of hour up to five-nights.

Alternative Mission Trips:

• Build appreciation for all the gifts in our lives.
• Inspire participants to want to help others.
• Teach about the causes and sustainable solutions to hunger and poverty.
• Build relationships through unique shared experiences.
• Connect people to the land by learning how animals and people help each other.
• Create experiences that can be incorporated into a self-led spiritual study.*

Download our Alternative Mission Trip Guide to learn more about programs offered at each location or follow the links below.

Heifer Learning Center at Heifer Ranch in Perryville, Arkansas
Heifer Learning Center at Heifer Village in Little Rock, Arkansas
Heifer Learning Center at Overlook Farm in Rutland, Massachusetts
Heifer Global Village at Howell Nature Center in Howell, Michigan
Heifer Global Village at Shepherd's Spring in Sharpsburg, Maryland

*Learning Center staff does not facilitate any religious programming. Heifer's congregational resources will help you plan your own spiritual studies that relate to hunger and poverty.