Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing It Right!

by Robert J. Priest

Publisher:

William Carey Library

, 2008

Overview

Effective Engagement in Short-term Missions represents the single most ambitious effort to date to understand and improve upon patterns of ministry in STM. In six sections, the authors explore topics such as the links between STM and older patterns of long-term missions; engagement with people of other cultures; international partnerships; specialized ministries such as medical missions; legal and financial liabilities; and last but not least, the impact of STM on participants. 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. In short, this book attempts to provide a knowledge base for those who provide leadership within the short term missions movement. Youth pastors, mission pastors, lay leaders, college and seminary students, and missiologists will all find information that is helpful and relevant to their concerns.

Product Details

• Title: Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing It Right!
• Author: Robert J. Priest
• Series: Evangelical Missiological Society Series
• Publisher: William Carey Library
• Print Publication Date: 2008
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 660
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9780878086948, 9780878080052, 0878080058, 0878086943
• Resource ID: LLS:9780878086948
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2026-06-17T00:53:56Z

About Robert J. Priest

Robert J. Priest, is G. W. Aldeen Professor of International Studies and professor of mission and anthropology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and holds the PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. He is former president of both the American Society of Missiology (2013-14) and the Evangelical Missiological Society (2015-17). His research and writing have included a focus on race and ethnicity,sexuality, short-term missions, religious conversion, and witchcraft accusations.Among his publications is This Side of Heaven: Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith, edited with Alvaro L. Nieves (Oxford, 2007).