Do
- Consider your budget, pace and companions
- Research and ask for recommendations
- Know your strengths and weaknesses
- Find churches, missionaries or other believers to connect with
- Think in terms of service
- Consider how others will impact you
- Be kind and flexible interacting with people
- Plan how you will spend time with God
- Pack light
- Get travel insurance
Don’t
- Travel because everyone else is
- Travel to escape
- Travel just because you can
- Idolize pleasure
- Assume you’ll be immune to temptations
- Forget to thank God for the places and people you encounter
- Lose touch with home
Adapted from “Travelling the World as Citizens of Heaven”