Our Story

Arise & Thresh began in August 2024 when a Sri Lankan missionary visited the States to speak at a church camp. He expressed a desire for us and our friends to visit Sri Lanka and organize a youth camp for the young people in his church that he had thus far been unable to arrange.

Two of our directors visited the Reformed Protestant Mission in Sri Lanka in November of 2024 to understand what such a trip would entail.

In January 2025, we officially incorporated as a nonprofit in South Carolina.

The inaugural mission trip for Arise & Thresh is scheduled for December 18-30, 2025. It will consist of twenty-two young people, including an ordained minister and one student of the ministry.

Our name comes from Micah 4:11-13:

“Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.”

See our article 2024 Investigative Mission Trip: Sri Lanka for more details!