Come to Guatemala with us!
Dad Tired
Jerrad Lopes
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
For years, Dad Tired founder Jerrad Lopes has dreamed about taking dads and their families on a mission trip together. In this episode, he shares an exciting new opportunity for Dad Tired families to serve alongside him and his own family in Guatemala in October 2026.
The trip will partner with the missions organization Adventures in Missions to serve local communities outside Guatemala City. Families will have opportunities to participate in meaningful work such as serving in children’s programs, supporting local ministries, building safer cooking stoves for families, and potentially helping build a home for someone in need.
But this trip is about more than service projects. It’s about expanding perspective, strengthening faith, and helping dads and their kids experience the global Church together. Jerrad shares why these kinds of trips can be spiritually transformative and why he believes every Christian family should consider stepping outside their comfort zone to see what God is doing around the world.
Because this is the first Dad Tired mission trip, the team will be intentionally small—only 6–7 families total. In this episode, Jerrad explains the vision for the trip, what families can expect, and how listeners can apply to join.
Learn more and apply:
dadtired.com/missions
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| 0:00.0 | All right. There are likely things happening in Dad Tired that you don't know about. We have so many |
| 0:05.4 | things going on. Like even when I'm trying to tell you all the things, I realize I forget them. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm thinking about we have a Dad Tired parenting conference in San Diego coming up. We have |
| 0:14.6 | Dad Tired One Day conferences happening all around the country. Some even were in talks with |
| 0:20.5 | different countries around the world doing |
| 0:22.6 | those. We've got a father's son Alaska trip. Unfortunately, that one already filled up. But we had |
| 0:29.1 | signed up for that. Are we had signups for that? What else do we have? We have a family camp going on. |
| 0:35.4 | I'll put a link to the show notes. There may be spots left for that, |
| 0:38.4 | but it's a camp that you can go to with your entire family for a week, hosted by Chick-fil-A, |
| 0:44.5 | I'm sorry, hosted by Windhape, which is part of the Chick-fil-A kind of foundation. |
| 0:49.1 | So we do that. But anyway, the thing, the reason I'm talking to you today, the opportunity that I want to talk to you about today is joining me and my family in Guatemala for years, truly since we started dad tired back in 2016. |
| 1:04.2 | So 10 years ago, I have always had this idea, had a dream to do mission trips. |
| 1:09.8 | I wanted to take guys on mission trips. I wanted to take guys on mission trips. |
| 1:11.9 | I wanted to take families on mission trips. |
| 1:14.1 | If I were not doing this dad tired ministry, I would probably be trying to do missions work. |
| 1:19.7 | Layla and I, early on in our marriage, talked about doing missions. |
| 1:23.3 | And it's just dear to my heart. |
| 1:25.5 | I truly believe that everyone should go on an international |
| 1:30.5 | trip, short-term trip, or even long-term. I know it's kind of, there's lots of different |
| 1:35.3 | thoughts about this in the Christian world, but I think for you as a believer in Christ to go see |
| 1:41.0 | how other people worship Jesus throughout the world, how they pray, their obedience, |
| 1:47.5 | their obedience through suffering, the way that they trust Jesus and pursue Jesus. |
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