Is there a small break in there for a holiday or trip home to visit family?
We ask your church, ICY partner work and the trainers to sign an agreement with you. In this agreement, there is provision for five weeks holiday, five weeks mission opportunities and of course the conferences, clusters etc. So you should get at least five weeks to see family each year. However in addition there are the public holidays of the country you are visiting and what we call time off in lieu. This means for instance if you are working two weeks solid on a camp, you are entitled to some extra time off for the additional hours you’ve worked. So for instance a typical year might look like this. You start in September, do a mission trip for two weeks in early November, and then leave for home for 2.5 weeks over Christmas. In the spring you might visit another worker for a week to see how they do things, and have another week off over Easter. Come the summer, you may do some young people’s camps and be entitled to another week and an half off in lieu. This means after all the camps
