INTL: SSA

Cape Town Serve Tour

6/16/2024 — 6/23/2024

June 2024, volunteers just like you will be coming alongside a city-wide event designed to invite local churches in Cape Town to serve their community workers and government service providers, such as the police, firemen, teachers and schools, clinics, orphanages, old age homes, libraries, government municipal offices, etc., as well as community members who benefit from these services (hospital patients, orphans, elderly residents of old age homes, etc.)  

Serve Tour volunteers will work alongside of Baptist churches, and could be involved in projects such as painting, cleaning, picking up trash, cleaning up beach areas, working with kids and youth in the community, delivering appreciation gifts and cards to municipal workers, making and delivering food or meals to these workers, washing cars, and other acts of service and appreciation.

This trip is for adults but does allow those 14+ to participate at a one-to-one ratio with adults on the team. A small sub-group of this Serve Tour will be invited to take part in a Band Camp for at-risk teenagers in a slum area.  This sub-group must be proficient players of wind instruments such as flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, and percussion, and be comfortable helping lead sectional rehearsals and teaching basic playing methods.  This group may also put together pieces to perform for various places around the city in the afternoons in addition to leading the camp in the mornings.  We only need one player for flute, and euphonium; 2 players for Trombone, clarinet, and percussion; and three players for trumpet. 

Once registered, you and your team are committed to spend seven days onsite at the rate of $1,200 per volunteer.*

While your team’s schedule will need to remain flexible, your general week’s itinerary will be as follows:

16 June: Arrival Day

17 June: Orientation (including bus tour of the city and prayer over the city from the top of Table Mountain – weather permitting); visit work assignment places to pray.

18 June-21 July:  Work days at the sites.  Could work all 4 days at one site or two days at two different sites.

22 June: Celebration and testimonies/half-day of sight-seeing: choose from Penguins, Cape Point, Robben Island, or shopping in town (weather permitting the first three)

23 June:  Those who are preachers fill pulpits in various Baptist churches, others attend or if there are musicians, provide special music

23 June:  Leaving afternoon and evening

Registration Deadlines:

• Registration is limited to 200 participants on a first come first serve basis. Registration will close when all spots have been filled and/or on March 18, 2024. Please note that your team’s registration will not be valid until the deposit of $1,200 has been paid.
• All volunteers must have their applications complete, references returned, and training complete no later than April 17, 2024.
• All final payments are due April 17, 2024.
• International Serve Tours work with local churches to aid them in reaching the needs in their communities. Because of this, they cannot make final arrangements for Serve Tour projects and accommodations until they know the final number of volunteers coming and the skills sets they are equipped with. This means we are able to provide an overview for what your team might do during Serve Tour, but we cannot give specific assignments until less than 30 days prior to departure. Because of this, you and your team will not have contact with field personnel until between 60-30 days prior to departure.

*Costs include all on field expenses such as lodging, meals, transportation, and ministry expenses. Costs do not include airfare, visa and/or vaccination requirements, insurance, tourism activities, and/or COVID requirements/quarantine.

Also see our Cape Town Serve Tour FAQ sheet: Cape Town FAQ

Before applying for this trip, please carefully read the instructions for this application: APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS