Tim Dearborn offers the essential workbook for individuals or teams preparing for a short-term missions experience, including crosscultural communication, spiritual warfare, the "tourist mentality," spiritual preparation , team-building and coping with "reentry" into everday life.
Veteran trip leaders Mack and Leeann Stiles offer practical advice, hard-won lessons, and hilarious stories to help you know what to expect as you get ready to see God in action in new ways.
With eight units, six of which are built around free online video content, this book equips teams to avoid harming materially poor communities and to translate their experience into lasting and mutual engagement with missions and poverty ...
Everything you need to know to plan a successful short-term missions trip from an authoritative source. Packed with comprehensive, down-to-earth, practical information.
" "They ministered to us more than we ministered to them." "It changed my life." Anthropologist Brian Howell explores the narrative shape of short-term mission (STM).
Before You Go
The book you're holding provides a healthy path forward, a path that will guide us into short-term missions that mutually benefit everyone involved, both ministry host and mission trip goer.
Extend the impact of any mission trip with a gospel-centered, grace-motivated devotional and travel journal from Serge.
This book introduces seminary students, ministry leaders, and others to key aspects, prevailing mentalities, and some major figures to consider when coming to understand postcolonial theologies.
Whether you’re involved in short-term missions or the long-term empowerment of the poor, this book helps teach you three key areas: · Foundational ConceptsWho are the poor? · PrinciplesShould we do relief, rehabilitation, or development ...
The goal of this book is to improve the ways in which STM is carried out and to improve the understandings needed on the part of all who engage in the ministry.