The Impact of Short-Term Missions on Long-Term Missional Development
Ebook
Lead short-term mission trips (STMs) that catalyze trip participants into mission-oriented disciple-makers when they return home. STMs can be mutually beneficial service opportunities that have positive long-term impact on both trip participants and national hosts. While this is possible, it is not always the outcome of many STMs. STMs often prioritize the short-term experience of trip participants and miss the longer-term discipleship opportunity they offer.
STMs can be a context of significant, mutually beneficial work between both trip participants and national hosts. This work can serve as a catalyst for meaningful, long-term growth for both parties, but an appropriate philosophy and trip structure is needed. This book studies and reveals best practices for both.
“Whether you are a veteran short-term mission leader or have just been asked to lead a team from your church or mission organization, this book is for you! Brian Bain has more than twenty years of experience traveling and leading short terms to Asia and Africa, many of these for months at a time. These experiences have led him to ask how these trips can move beyond exciting encounters with foreign people and cultures to transformative learning experiences that actually change the participant’s attitudes and actions.”
—Michael Pocock, chairman and senior professor emeritus of missions and intercultural ministry, Dallas Theological Seminary
“I commend Bain for his research, development of thought, and insights for change that will have a dynamic impact on short-term mission and long-term missional engagement. Furthermore, I commend the book to you for implementation in your STM engagement and the resulting commitment to mission. Enjoy the read!”
—Daniel Shaw, senior professor of anthropology and translation, Fuller Theological Seminary
- Title: The Impact of Short-Term Missions on Long-Term Missional Development
- Authors: R. Daniel Shaw, Brian Bain
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666788709, 9781666788686, 1666788686, 9781666788693, 1666788694, 1666788708
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666788709
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-07T23:29:33Z
Brian Bain is department chair and assistant professor of missiology and intercultural ministries at Dallas Theological Seminary. Brian previously served with the North East Africa Theological Seminary in South Sudan.