Trip Leaders
Leadership at a Glance
- Schedule your trip with Amazon Outreach
- Schedule meetings to prepare team
- Help each team member apply for trip, passports, and visas
- Assist in support raising for team
- Supply information for trip preparation including vaccinations, expectation, collecting donations, and packing
- Raise up leaders to lead specific areas of ministry on the trip
- Collect monies associated with trip and keep records before forwarding to AO
- Go to our secure website at www.amazontrips.org to keep updated with team member applications and information
- Complete all required post-trip administrative duties following trip
Characteristics of a Good Leader
- Submission to God’s will is his number one priority.
- He is a spiritual leader and a prayer warrior.
- He motivates people to grow spiritually.
- He demands cooperation.
- He is compassionate and encouraging to each person he is leading.
- He is organized and informing.
- He has the ability to develop team unity and camaraderie.
- He creates interdependence within the team with an appropriate division of labor.
Amazon Outreach Leader Checklist
Time of Booking Dates of Airlines__If you're a first-time leader, sign up on www.amazonoutreach.org and notify Brenda (972-931-5565 or brendab@amazonoutreach.org) after you have signed up so she can give you leader status in the database. Check your team often as they sign up and start interacting with them by going to www.amazontrips.org
__Return leaders need their Trip Code (email Brenda) to give all return trip members to sign up online and to check on their team's progress of signing up online as they sign up.
__We will begin giving you airline rates and your team can begin raising support to purchase tickets
Six Months Prior To Trip
__Plan introductory meeting
__Contact all interested people
__Sign up online for trip at www.amazonoutreach.org – click on "Sign up for a trip today"
__Begin collecting $500 deposits and payments for airfare
__Team members apply for passports
__Team members apply online for trip
Four Months Prior To Trip
__Begin regularly scheduled meetings
__Travelers begin writing support letters
__Continue collecting $500 deposits and payments for airfare
__Collect passport, check of approximately $210 to passport agency, copy of driver's license, and online Visa Application receipt page, and 2 X 2 Passport picture for all team members. Brenda will send you complete Visa Instructions by email.
__For MINORS – contact passport agency for the most current procedure
__Apply for visas
__Team members apply online for trip
__Begin collecting supplies
95 Days Prior To Trip
__Collect $1000 additional support ($1,500 deposits plus airfare)
__Make sure team members have applied for passports
__Take vaccinations (Yellow Fever, Typhoid, Hepatitis A and B)
__Make sure Brenda has all legal names, birthdates, and airport departures for team members
65 Days Prior To Trip
__Collect $500 additional support ($2,000 total collected plus airfare)
__Take vaccinations
__Collect supplies
50 Days Prior to Trip
__Remainder of balance for support due
30 Days Prior To Trip
__Purchase malaria tablets and take as doctor advises
7 Days Prior To Trip
__Packing Party
