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Independent Christian ChurchSKYPASS GROUP & SKYPASS TRAVELSKYPASS Group and SKYPASS Travel provide corporate, leisure, mission, and humanitarian travel services for individuals, groups,…Independent Christian Church · Missions
SKYPASS GROUP & SKYPASS TRAVEL
SKYPASS GROUP & SKYPASS TRAVEL — Organization Profile SKYPASS Group is a travel, hospitality, entertainment, education, motivation, philanthropy, and business services company whose flagship travel agency is SKYPASS Travel. SKYPASS Travel provides corporate, leisure, mission, and humanitarian travel services for…
SKYPASS GROUP & SKYPASS TRAVEL — Organization Profile SKYPASS Group is a travel, hospitality, entertainment, education, motivation, philanthropy, and business services company whose flagship travel agency is SKYPASS Travel. SKYPASS Travel provides corporate, leisure, mission, and humanitarian travel services for individuals, families, groups, nonprofit organizations, and mission teams. The company traces its roots to Grace Travels, a family enterprise led by former Army Captain P. S. Abraham, and SKYPASS Travel has served travelers since 1988. The company is headquartered in Irving, Texas, near Dallas and DFW International Airport, with listed offices and service locations in Austin, Texas; Toronto, Canada; Guadalajara and Mexico City, Mexico; São Paulo, Brazil; Bangalore and Mumbai, India. SKYPASS Group includes SKYPASS Travel USA and SKYPASS Travel…
SKYPASS GROUP & SKYPASS TRAVEL — Organization Profile
SKYPASS Group is a travel, hospitality, entertainment, education, motivation, philanthropy, and business services company whose flagship travel agency is SKYPASS Travel. SKYPASS Travel provides corporate, leisure, mission, and humanitarian travel services for individuals, families, groups, nonprofit organizations, and mission teams. The company traces its roots to Grace Travels, a family enterprise led by former Army Captain P. S. Abraham, and SKYPASS Travel has served travelers since 1988.
The company is headquartered in Irving, Texas, near Dallas and DFW International Airport, with listed offices and service locations in Austin, Texas; Toronto, Canada; Guadalajara and Mexico City, Mexico; São Paulo, Brazil; Bangalore and Mumbai, India. SKYPASS Group includes SKYPASS Travel USA and SKYPASS Travel Pvt. Ltd. India, and its travel team works with more than 300 airlines in more than 110 countries.
SKYPASS Group describes its mission as proactively engaging individual and institutional partners as a solution provider in corporate, leisure, and mission travel, hospitality, business consulting, philanthropy, and entertainment. Its stated culture is service-driven and shaped by servant leadership. For Christian churches, ministries, and humanitarian organizations, the most relevant part of that work is SKYPASS Travel’s mission and humanitarian travel support for short-term and long-term service projects.
SKYPASS Travel’s mission and humanitarian travel services are designed for religious trips, medical missions, disaster relief, repatriation, adoption-related travel, nonprofit travel, missionaries, mission team leaders, and organization leaders. Benefits listed by the company include discounted flights, 24/7 operations support for international travelers, large group specialists, travel insurance, ground transportation, accommodations, live flight monitoring, customized pre- and post-mission stopover packages, and, on select airlines, extra baggage allowances, flexible change or cancellation policies, preferred seating, and dedicated airport check-in for large groups.
The company also provides leisure and corporate travel services. Leisure travel support includes international air tickets, ground transfers, hotels, tourist activities, travel insurance, and visa-related services for U.S. citizens traveling abroad. Corporate travel services include air, hotel, car, and rail support, with consultants available around the clock to help organizations manage employee travel needs and control travel spending.
People can engage with SKYPASS Group and SKYPASS Travel by contacting the nearest office, using the mission and humanitarian travel inquiry form, requesting help with group or individual travel, applying for mission travel grants through SKYPASS Foundation when eligible, or using SKYPASS Travel’s travel tips and resources. Its distinct contribution is mission-sensitive travel planning that helps churches, nonprofits, humanitarian workers, missionaries, and service teams arrange international flights and logistics with specialized support.
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Church of ChristSouthwest School of Bible StudiesSouthwest School of Bible Studies (SWSBS) in Austin, Texas provides tuition-free, structured Bible training for ministry,…Church of Christ · Education
Southwest School of Bible Studies
Southwest School of Bible Studies — Organization Profile Southwest School of Bible Studies (SWSBS) is a two-year school in Austin, Texas, created to help Christians deepen their understanding of Scripture and prepare for service in the local church. The school…
Southwest School of Bible Studies — Organization Profile Southwest School of Bible Studies (SWSBS) is a two-year school in Austin, Texas, created to help Christians deepen their understanding of Scripture and prepare for service in the local church. The school traces its beginnings to 1978, when Norman Starling approached the elders of the Southwest Church of Christ with the idea of launching a Bible training school in Austin. Over time, what began as a one-year effort developed into a two-year program that operates across most of the year and is presented as tuition-free. SWSBS centers its training around a comprehensive course of study through every book of the Bible, paired with related courses that support preaching, teaching, and ministry work.…
Southwest School of Bible Studies — Organization Profile
Southwest School of Bible Studies (SWSBS) is a two-year school in Austin, Texas, created to help Christians deepen their understanding of Scripture and prepare for service in the local church. The school traces its beginnings to 1978, when Norman Starling approached the elders of the Southwest Church of Christ with the idea of launching a Bible training school in Austin. Over time, what began as a one-year effort developed into a two-year program that operates across most of the year and is presented as tuition-free.
SWSBS centers its training around a comprehensive course of study through every book of the Bible, paired with related courses that support preaching, teaching, and ministry work. The school describes an educational approach structured toward New Testament Christianity, with a strong emphasis on preparing students for evangelism and for giving a thoughtful defense of the faith. In addition to Bible content, the school outlines a weekday class schedule framework and an overall program design intended to be both rigorous and spiritually formative.
The primary academic pathway is the Preaching & Ministry Program, which organizes coursework into four integrated divisions: Bible Exposition, Bible Studies, Bible Doctrine & Apologetics, and Bible Preaching. Course descriptions include topics such as hermeneutics, Greek, church and restoration history, archaeology and geography, organized doctrine and prophecy studies, and a preaching sequence aimed at equipping students to communicate biblical truth as gospel preachers and to do the work of an evangelist. This structure reflects SWSBS’s goal of pairing careful biblical study with ministry-ready training.
SWSBS also describes a Christian Women’s Study Program. While designed as an organized spiritual development program for the wives of Southwest students, it also encourages participation from women in the Southwest congregation and sister congregations in the area. The school frames this program as a setting for in-depth Bible instruction and relationship-building among women who want to grow in their understanding of Scripture and their ability to serve.
Beyond the two-year school program, SWSBS hosts the Southwest Servant’s Academy (S2A), a week-long academy designed for young Christians (ages 14–18) to grow in faith and in their ability to serve the church. S2A features courses taught by SWSBS faculty and Christian Women’s Studies instructors, and it aims to strengthen students as servants in the local congregation while increasing their regard for preaching and teaching as lifelong work. The school also highlights the broader reach of its alumni, noting graduates serving in many places and roles, including local ministry work, foreign teaching efforts, and support services such as media and publishing.
