The custom missions template provides a central location for your missions info, highlights the latest featured missions story, and gives users the ability to search for missions opportunities.

Your opportunities for trips, local and global missions are setup under Events > Events. When setting up each item, make sure to assign the following categories:

• Missions - the parent category
• Filter items - all that apply to the opportunity
• Missions area - Local Partners, Local Projects or Missions Trips. These categories control the results for the "view all" button options in the filter section, so please do not rename these categories.

The top portion of your missions page is managed within the page settings. Navigate to Content > Pages > Missions.

The following fields are used for this template:

• Title: controls the page title
• Content: controls the first section of text on your page (underneath the header image)
• Header Image: controls the image at the top of the template
• Header Background Video (optional): this can be used to display a muted/looping video in place of a static header image

The missions page is also pulling in two custom sections: Long-Term Missionaries and Missions (see more info below)

The custom sections for "Long-Term Missionaries" and "Missions Magazine" are managed under Content > Sections > Long-Term Missionaries and Missions Magazine.

The following fields need to be populated for these sections:

• Title: for internal use only
• Content: this is the main content block for the section, and you can add headings, text, buttons, links, etc.
• Section Title: controls for the title that will display at the top of the section on the live page

The fields below are optional:

• Background Color: controls the background color of the section (should be a hex color value). With default setup, the Missions Magazine section is using a background color.
• Background Image: controls the background image of the section. Within the default setup, the Long-Term Missionaries section is using a background image.
• Background Overlay: adds a dark overlay at 30% opacity
• Dark Background: displays the content in white color. This is typically used in conjunction with a dark background color or image, and the Long-Term Missionaries section is using this feature.
• Parallax Background: this option turns the Background Image into a parallax background.

This section will automatically pull the most recent story assigned to the "Missions” category, which is located under the parent category "Stories". Your featured missions article will need to have the "Missions" category assigned and the article published as "featured".

Within the article, the following fields will display in this section:

• Title: controls the featured story title
• Summary: controls the text paragraph underneath the story title
• Image: controls the background image

Within the event settings, the following fields are used for the custom missions details page:

• Name: title shown in the header area
• Description: the text area on the page
• Start Date/Time: displays in the sidebar details area and determines when the opportunity will start displaying on the missions landing page
• End Date/Time: displays in the sidebar details area and determines when the opportunity with stop displaying on the missions landing page
• Location (optional): displays in the sidebar details area. Note: the location will first need to be added under Events > Locations, in order to be available in the locations dropdown. If you don't want a specific address to display for a country, enter the country name in the "name" field, and then complete the country and city fields.
• Categories: used for the search and filtering options on the missions landing page. They are managed under Events > Events > Categories tab (under the parent "Missions" category). See the "Missions Landing Page Overview" section above for details.
• Cost (optional): if added, the cost will display in the sidebar details area
• Image: displays as the page header image and uses the same size as the header image for your theme (1400x600px). Note: if no image is loaded, then the header image loaded for the main Missions landing page will display.
• Mission Partner: This is the name of the partner that you want to associate with this opportunity. Make sure that the name you use here matches the title of the partner exactly, as entered in the Small Groups module. The contact details (phone, email, etc) will be pulled from the Primary Leader for the group.
• Registration URL (optional): if added, an application button will display in the sidebar details area