FLT - pronounced Fleet - stands for Field Leadership Team - formerly known as JSI

There's nothing like the FLT experience. If you are a student (college or older HS) looking to be challenged, stretched, and discipled as a servant-leader, you really need to consider the FLT. Even if this summer isn't going to work for you, I highly recommend you give at least one summer to this before you get out of college.

Here are my top three reasons to join the FLT.

Living the M life

Joining the FLT means becoming part of the missionary's team for the summer, and our missionary partners are the best. You will become part of their team and most likely feel like part of their family. Their kids will practically adopt you.

Our partners love students and they love to pour into FLT. The things you will learn from them as you walk with them and see how they live out their faith overseas are hard to quantify. You will get to see from the closest view possible what the M life really looks like, and you will get to experience it yourself as part of the FLT. This reason would be enough all by itself, but I figured you might want at least a couple more.

Leading and learning

Our leadership strategy at iGo is simple - we let students lead. This is one of the biggest reasons the FLT experience has been so incredible for so many over the years. You will grow as a servant-leader through this experience no matter if you have been leading for a while or if you are just beginning to explore your leadership abilities.

We partner with these missionaries to train and prepare you to lead, and then we let you lead. You will learn from seeing things go well, and you will learn from seeing things go the wrong way--like the train that you just got your whole group on. There's no better way to learn, especially when you have someone watching and speaking into you as you go. The FLT experience will help you develop as a leader. Period.

Leaning into relationships

On some level, all iGo teams are learning and practicing relational evangelism. We want our students to learn what it looks like to build relationships and establish friendships as they share the gospel. Just like Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 2:8, "we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God, but our lives as well."

As an FLT, you will get the opportunity to go much deeper as you build relationships with new lost friends overseas. Some of our former FLT/JSI have continued relationships to this day, some of them have gone back on their own to visit friends, and we even had one girl from Japan travel to Texas to be at her JSI friend's wedding!

I haven't even mentioned the relationships you will make with your teammates that might be lifelong. We've seen plenty of those kind of friendships come out of this experience. We've even seen a few weddings between former FLT/JSI teammates, who did not even think about dating during the trip, of course. ;)

Those are my top three. Ready to get started? Here are the links for our four FLT locations in 2023. Let's go!

New York City FLT                                         Honduras FLT

Japan FLT                                                       Germany FLT