Short-Term Missions (STM)

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Short-Term Missions (STM) the Kingdom of God
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Praise Worship
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Ground Rules for Learning

• Be willing to participate
• Share your thoughts wisdom
• Ask questions at any time
• Learn from each otherlisten
• Be patient with one another
• Enjoy our time together

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Overall Goal of STM Training

• Maximize the likelihood of a long-term positive
  impact on all STM participants

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Participants in STM
Senders
Goers
Host Receivers
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Training Objectives

• Equip individuals to be effective trainers for
  STM team leaders
• Equip individuals to build/lead teams
• Provide tools and information to engage in
  cross-cultural ministry
• Describe the participants in STM
• Describe the STM process
• Provide information on available resources

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Key Principle

• Participating on a STM trip is more than about
  YOU!

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Who is the SAMS?
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SAMS Who are we?

• A servant ministry
• rooted in the apostolic faith
• partners with Anglicans
• incarnational cross-cultural ministries
• shares the gospel of Jesus Christ in
• word and deed

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SAMS History

• Founded over 150 years ago by Captain Allen
  Gardiner
• Initial effort to bring the good news of Jesus
  Christ to the Yaghans of Patagonia

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Allen Gardiners Journal Entry

• Grant, Oh Lord that we may be instrumental in
  commencing this great and blessed work but
  should thou see fit in Thy providence to hedge up
  our way and that we should even languish and die
  here, I beseech Thee to raise up others, and to
  send forth laborers into this harvest. Let it be
  seen for the manifestation of thy glory and
  Grace, that nothing is too hard for Thee.
• --Spaniards Harbor 1851

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Why mission in the Majority World today?

• In many areas up to 90 unchurched
• Unique niche for (3-stream) Anglicanism
  Catholic, Charismatic, and Canonical
• Bridge church among Evangelicals, Pentecostals
  and Roman Catholics

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SAMS International Today

• 200 missionaries
• Extensive work among indigenous peoples
• SEAN courses (Seminary by Extension to the
  Nations)
• Seminaries in Madrid, Arequipa, Santiago, with
  other extension programs

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SAMS

• Serves the Anglican Communion by sending people
  to share the good news of Jesus Christ through
  words and actions.
• Sends individuals to serve as missionariesinterns
  or career long-term missionaries.
• Supports local parishes involved in missions with
  STM training and on-field support.

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SAMS What we believe

• We affirm belief in the historic Christian faith
  as revealed in the Scriptures and as stated in
  the Apostles', Nicene and Athanasian Creeds and
  the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion (BCP).

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SAMS - USA

• Long-term missionaries
• Short-Term missions (STM) training
• Interns serving with missionary mentors

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Where SAMS missionaries are working

• Dominican Republic
• Honduras
• Panama
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Chile

• Bolivia
• Paraguay
• Spain
• Uganda
• United States
• SE Asia
• Global

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SAMS missio Dei

• Grow the Kingdom
• Equip the U.S. church with a missionary vision
• Foster vibrant and fruitful ministry in the
  Global South
• Raise up cross-generational leaders and
  missionaries
• Plant churches
• Minister to the poor

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SAMS Foundation

• Long-term missionary sending and supporting
  structure
• Emerging short- to medium-term sending structure
• Broad range of holistic ministries
• Anglican in heritage

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SAMS Foundation (continued)

• Strong relationships with the emerging orthodox
  Anglican movement in the USA
• Strong relationships with Global South church
• Strong partnerships with other Anglican mission
  agenciesAGMP
• Solid track record as organization of integrity

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SAMS STM

• Has assisted churches to send STM teams since
  1993
• Believes that good preparation and training are
  essential
• Understands that that STM can do harm
• Is very enthusiastic about the role that STM can
  play in building the Kingdom of God

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SAMS short-term health teams are a part of the
effort to bring health and spiritual healing
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SAMS missionaries proclaim the gospel in word and
deed through feeding body and soul.
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Short-term teams build houses for the poor, share
good news and construct churches.
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SAMS Vision for STM

• Use STM to glorify Christ in word deed and
  promote the building of His Kingdom
• Foster missions awareness in sending churches
• Equip leaders to prepare teams for cross-cultural
  ministry
• Work to ensure that STM will be a blessing to
  those who send and those who receive

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SAMS Vision for STM (Cont)

• Encourage building long-term partnerships
• Seek to empower the poor and not do harm
• Many of those who go will sense a calling to the
  missionary endeavor
• Help unite the true church across cultural
  divides and economic classes
• Promote excellence in STM for maximum impact on
  all participants

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Standards of Excellence

• Seven Standards of Excellence in Short-Term
  Mission

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Std 1 God-Centeredness

• Seeks first Gods glory and his kingdom, and
  is expressed through our
• Purpose Centering on Gods glory and his ends
  throughout our entire STM process
• Lives Sound biblical doctrine, persistent
  prayer, and godliness in all our thoughts, words,
  and deeds
• Methods Wise, biblical, and culturally-appropria
  te methods which bear spiritual fruit

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2 Empowering Partnerships

• Establishes healthy, interdependent, on-going
  relationships between sending and receiving
  partners, and is expressed by
• Primary focus on intended recipients
• Plans which benefit all participants
• Mutual trust and accountability

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3 Mutual Design

• Collaboratively plans each specific outreach
  for the benefit of all participants, and is
  expressed by 
• On-field methods and activities aligned to
  long-term strategic partnerships
• Goer-guests ability to implement their part of
  the plan
• Host receivers ability to implement their part
  of the plan

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4 Comprehensive Administration

• Exhibits integrity through reliable set-up and
  thorough administration for all participants, and
  is expressed by
• Truthfulness in promotion, finances, and
  reporting results
• Appropriate risk management
• Quality program delivery and support logistics

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5 Qualified Leadership

• Screens, trains, and develops capable
  leadership for all participants, and is expressed
  by 
• Character Spiritually mature servant leadership
• Skills Prepared, competent, organized and
  accountable leadership
• Values Empowering and equipping leadership

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6 Appropriate Training

• Prepares and equips all participants for the
  mutually designed outreach, and is expressed by
• Biblical, appropriate, and timely training
• On-going training and equipping (pre-field,
  on-field, post-field)
• Qualified trainers

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7 Thorough Follow-Through

• Assures debriefing and appropriate
  follow-through for all participants, and is
  expressed by
• Comprehensive debriefing (pre-field, on-field,
  post-field)
• On-field re-entry preparation
• Post-field follow-through and evaluation

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STM Manual

• Introduction
• Glossary
• Part I Equipping Team Leaders
• Part II Equipping STM Teams

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STM ManualPart IEquipping Team Leaders

1. The role of STM team leader
2. Introduction to STM
3. Foundation for maximum impact STM trips
4. The birth of a STM idea
5. Engaging senders receivers in pre-field
   planning
6. Forming a STM team
7. Building a STM team

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STM ManualPart IIEquipping STM Teams

1. Raising funds support
2. Trip logistics
3. Understanding poverty and the poor
4. Preparing for cross-cultural ministry (Part A)
5. Preparing for cross-cultural ministry (Part B)
6. In-country ministry
7. Re-entry and follow-through

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Training Methods

• Presentation of material
• Key Principles
• Dialoguelearning from each other
• Reflection questions
• Small group activities
• Case studies
• Video clips

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Small Group Reflection

• What would a successful STM trip look like?

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The Importance of Preparation
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Short-Term Missions is a huge phenomenon. It
has great potential. But STM does not appear to
be realizing this potential.
--Robert Priest, Anthropologist Missiologist
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But when the immersion experience is connected
with the right sorts of orientation and coaching,
significant change is possible.
--Robert Priest, Anthropologist Missiologist
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Training is the Foundation for a Successful STM
Trip Why?

• The task (project) may not work out
• The logistics may go wrong
• But the training can prepare a team for such
  contingencies

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Key Principle

• Training preparation is the foundation for a
  successful STM trip.

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Why is training important?

• To maximize the likelihood of positive
  impacts/changes
• To minimize the likelihood of negative impact or
  harm

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Who is being equipped?
Churches
Training
Teams
In-Country Hosts
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The Role of aSTM Team LeaderSession I
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Goal to form and equip a team with a shared
vision for ministry

• Role of the leader to facilitate the formation
  of that vision and provide the necessary training
  for the team

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Question Dialogue

• What qualities do you think are the most
  important for a leader of a STM team?

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The Importance of Team Leadership

• Pre-field
• On-field
• Post-field

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STM Training-Learning Dynamic
Pre- Field
Post- Field
On- Field
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Key Role of Leaders
Senders
Host Receivers
Goers
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Key leadership qualities

• Spiritual maturity
• Good character
• Adaptability
• Good communication interpersonal skills
• Leadership and decision-making qualities
• Heart for missions
• Servant heart

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Spiritual Maturity

• Committed relationship with Jesus Christ
• Life of prayer and Bible study and spiritual
  growth
• Spiritual discernment
• Wisdom in ministering cross-culturally

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Good Character

• Person of high integrity
• Respected by others
• Others would be willing to submit to this
  persons authority

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Adaptability

• Have an attitude of a learner
• Must capitalize on the learning opportunities
  that arise in all phases of the STM process
• Must understand that the STM trip itself is a
  means to an end

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Good Communication Interpersonal Skills

• Able to teach and equip team members for
  cross-cultural ministry
• Can build bridges with the sending church
• Can develop clear and effective plans with the
  receiver host
• Can relate well to team members and empower them
  for ministry

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Leadership Decision-Making Qualities

• Can make informed decisions when there is need
• Delegates responsibilities to team members
  without being threatened
• Ability to keep the goal in focus and take
  necessary steps to achieve it
• Motivates by example, not coercion

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Heart for Missions

• Demonstrates enthusiasm for evangelism and
  outreach
• Has a heart of compassion for the poor
• Willing to dedicate time necessary to fulfill
  role of team leader

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Servant Heart

• Can lead by serving
• Can work under the authority of both sending
  church and receiver host
• Seeks to develop others rather than exalt self
• Treasures relationships over tasks

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It would be nice if the leader

• Had prior STM and cross-cultural experience
• Can speak the language of the country of
  destination
• Had small group leadership experience
• Had experience as a trainer
• Has experience with any activity that defines the
  purpose of the STM trip

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Team Leader Key Responsibilities

• Overall project and trip planning coordination
  with senders receivers
• Select team members and builds team
• Facilitate the identification of roles of team
  members
• Oversee administrative detailsbudget, financial
  matters
• Prepare team with needed training
• Plan on-field and post-field de-briefings and
  follow-through, including reporting back to
  senders and receivers

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Key Principle

• The quality of leadership directly determines the
  degree of STM impact.

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Quality of Leadership
Potential for Maximum Impact
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Key Role of Leaders
Senders
Host Receivers
Goers
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Leader and those who send

• Capture a vision
• Raise missions awareness in the local parish
• Mobilize resources
• Establish bridges that can be used in
  follow-through to ensure maximum long-term impact

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Leader and those who go

• Form and build a team
• Capture and instill a vision in the team
• Equip the team for ministry
• Plan logistics
• Plan for follow-through

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Leader and those who receive

• Coordinate in the design stage
• Understand needs and opportunities
• Seek to serve the missionary/host mission
• Plan for follow-through

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Number of leaders???

• Depends on
• Size of team
• Age of those who go
• Nature and complexity of the mission
• Situational context

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Resource notebook that provides many helpful
hints about the entire process of building a STM
team. Includes teaching on spiritual formation,
on-field and re-entry guidelines. Separate
workbook provides 8-session training curriculum
for team preparation.
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Introductionto STMSession II
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We may be entering a new era when missionary
work will not be left to professional
missionaries, but will be the common task of the
rank and file of church members in the course of
their daily occupations.

• --Missiologist Herb Kane

But is this true? What do you think?
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Perspective on the World Today

• Most people live in the majority world
• Half the people in the world are children
• 1 of 4 children has to work instead of going to
  school
• About 2.5 billion people live on lt2/day
• About 30K people die daily from preventable
  diseases
• 8 of the people in the world own a car

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The Changing Face of Christianity

• Center of Christendom has shifted to the global
  south
• Christianity is the fastest growing religion in
  the world at 7 per year
• Christians in the majority world
• generally poor
• often suffer great persecution
• are typically more communal than individualistic
• are more attune to principalities powers
• understand the reality of miracles power of
  prayer

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Why the popularity of STM?

• The world is flatter.
• Easier to navigate the globe
• Increasing concern about the poor
• Availability of financial resources
• Desire to connect with Gods workmissio Deiand
  to do something

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STM Trips Characterized

• A way for God to use ordinary people to show his
  extraordinary love
• If you want to see God in action, go on a STM
  trip
• Hands-on mission
• Gods workshop
• One of the greatest classrooms in the world to
  know God
• The 1 way to impact a persons life is to send
  them on a short-term mission trip.
• The gateway to career missionary service

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State of STM Today

• Grown tremendously in recent decade
• Likely a 1billion industry
• Both domestic and international
• U.S. outreach reinforced with Hurricane Katrina
• U.S. church invests more in STM than in long-term
  missions
• Most assessments of impacts have focused on those
  who go
• Little is known about impact on receivers
• Little is known about the long-term impacts in
  general

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Some Perspectives on STM

• STM evolved in the late 20th C from missionary
  recruitment into opportunity for spiritual growth
  in the lives of those who go on STM trips
• Scene of STM is changing from youth to more
  adults who have the time, resources, focus
• Increasing awareness that going on a STM trip
  must be more than about ME
• Awareness of the need to move beyond drive-by
  mission trip mind-set

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STM Participants

• Those who send
• Those who go
• Those who receive STM teams

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Process of STM
Pre-Field
Post-Field
On-Field
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Key Principle

• Short-term missions is not an isolated event in
  time but a process over time that includes
  senders, goers, and receivers.

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Foundation for Maximum Impact STM TripsSession
lll
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Short-Term Missions Trip
Cross-Cultural Trip
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Group Reflection

• How is a STM trip more than a cross-cultural
  experience?

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If everything is missionary work then nothing is
missionary work

• --Jim Reapsome
• Mission Maker Magazine 05

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Comparisonwhat kind of trip?

• STM Trip
• Other focused
• Minister to others
• Ministryto be a blessing
• To discern
• Self-transformation
• Transform others

• Cross-cultural Trip
• Me focused
• Experience another culture
• Vacation
• To experience
• Self-transformation
• Experience others

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Key Principle

• Participating on a STM trip is more than about ME.

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Characteristics of STM

• Swiftrelatively easy to do and quickly
• Temporarycan engage virtually any Christian
• Flexiblecan adapt easily to changing needs or
  opportunities
• Non-professionaldoes not take a lot of training
  and preparation
• Repetitiveongoing and constant flow of people
  and resources
• Expensive
• Part of Gods purposes in missio Dei

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STM How long?

• Some define STM as any service overseas or
  cross-culturally from 2 weeks to 2 years
• SAMS thinks of STM as typically 1-2 weeks in
  length and can be domestic or overseas

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What the proponents say

• Energizes the local church and leads to more
  giving for missions
• Nurtures spiritual formation in those who gogift
  discovery
• Engages people not heretofore involved
• Enhances and refines ones perspective and
  worldview
• Builds the Kingdom of God
• Brings people to Christ

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What the proponents say (cont)

• Leads individuals into missionary service
• Leads to financial support for indigenous
  missions and churches
• Blesses host missionaries and their
  ministriesdevelops relationships
• Leads to long-term partnerships with host
  missions and churches

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The STM movement represents an incredible
opportunity to mobilize resources on behalf of
strategic needs around the world and to build
strategic links between resource-rich churches
and individualsand fellow believers or sister
churches in those parts of the world
characterized by incredible hardship, suffering,
and resource limitations.

• --Robert Priest

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Reflection Question

• If STM in fact increases interest in career
  missionary service, why havent we seen
  commensurate growth in the number of career
  missionaries?

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Case Study STM Team of 14 participants went to
Bolivia

• 1 returned as a missionary
• 1 became chair of the missions board
• 1 set up an NGO to work with an indigenous
  mission
• 2 became members of the task force for Bolivia
• 1 went to seminary with an interest in serving as
  a long-term missionary

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Case Study STM Team of 14 participants went to
Bolivia (cont)

• 1 (the Rector) became even more vocal as the
  parish cheerleader for missions
• 1 wants to go on another STM trip
• 1 in interested in studying social work to help
  the poor
• A second team returned to foster a long-term
  partnership with the indigenous mission
• Note one of the two leaders was trained by
  SAMS team was visiting their SAMS missionaries

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What the critics say

• Cross-cultural vacationsreligious tourism,
  short-term junkies
• Waste of money
• Overly goal focused
• Do harm to people
• Disrupt local economies
• Danger of paternalistic attitudes
• Bring cultural imperialist assumptions
• Create dependency

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What the critics say (cont)

• Insufficient cross-cultural training and respect
  for nationals
• Overly confident in the transferability of
  ministry models
• Language barriers limit effectiveness
• Focus on short-term fixes
• Little lasting impact on participants
• Expensive efforts to assuage feelings of guilt
  and satisfy curiosity
• Can distract the full-time missionary/host
  receiver

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Question Can proper training address these
concerns?Answer Yes. Proper training can
address virtually all these concerns to maximize
the possibility of a long-term positive impact
while minimizing harm.
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Resentment when host culture observes

• Christian tourism
• Cultural voyeurism
• Commoditization of the poor

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Common Objection 1

• Career missionaries can do it better

What do you think?
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Common Objection 2

• It is a waste of money

What do you think?
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Common Objection 3

• It is more cost-effective to send money

What do you think?
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Tension
Come and build relationships and partnerships
Stay home but send money
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Case Study Hurricane Mitch

• Study of STM impact on local communities
• Looked at the impact of teams that built homes as
  compared to those communities that had homes
  built by Hondurans
• Found no lasting impact positive or negative on
  Honduran families or communities
• In fact, survey shows that Hondurans would rather
  have had the money raised by the STM team
  channeled toward building homes and employing
  Hondurans.
• --Kurt Verbeek, Impact of Short-Term Missions,
  May 2005.

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Common Objection 4

• Why travel that far when there are so many needs
  right here

What do you think?
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Why go?Why STM?
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Why not go?

• Fear of the unknown, risks
• I am too busy
• Who wants to leave their comfort zone?
• God has not called me to go
• I am not particularly gifted to help people
• I am not missionary material
• I do not know the language
• I am not a real together person
• I am not all that healthy

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The Bible Short-Term Missions
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Small Group Reflection

• What is the Biblical rationale for engaging in
  STM?

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As the Father has sent me,so I send you.
The Biblical Imperative Go

• John 2021b

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18 Then Jesus came to them and said, "All
authority in heaven and on earth has been given
to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and
teaching them to obey everything I have commanded
you. And surely I am with you always, to the very
end of the age."
The Great Commission

• Matthew 2818-20

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"Of all the commandmentsthe most important is
love the Lord your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all your mind and
with all your strength and love your neighbor as
yourself."
Commandment to Love

• Mark 1228-31

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You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes
on you and you will be my witnesses in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to
the ends of the earth.
Promise of Power

• Acts 18

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We go because

• God commands
• We love God others
• God promises

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Missions Fundamentals

• God has a missions heart/mindset
• God has compassion for all the nations and
  peoples of the earth

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The Biblical Thread

• Abraham will surely become a great and powerful
  nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed
  through him (Genesis 1818)
• All the ends of the earth will remember and turn
  to the LORD, and all the families of the nations
  will bow down before him (Psalm 2227)

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Jonah An amazing STM trip

• Called to go to Nineveh
• Evangelism preaching
• Classic unreached people group
• Perhaps only 2 days in the city
• Result people repented and God withheld judgment

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STM trips in New Testament

• STM trips of Apostles Paul and Peter
• Barnabas with Paul John Mark
• Titus to Corinth, Macedonia, Jerusalem
• Apollos to Ephesus, Corinth, Crete
• Jesus sends out the 12Luke 91-10

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Biblical Missionbeing sent

• Who? Every believer is a missionary
• What? Proclamation of the gospel in word deed
  and making of disciples
• Where? To the ends of the earth
• When? Now
• Why? Obedience, love, Gods promises
• How? The normal Christian life and long-term
  and short-term missionaries

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Christian Mission

• Sending away from a place (home)
• Crossing cultural boundaries
• Taking the love of Christword deed
• Being about the work of reconciliation

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2 Corinthians 518-20

• 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to
  himself through Christ and gave us the ministry
  of reconciliation
• 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself
  in Christ, not counting men's sins against them.
  And he has committed to us the message of
  reconciliation.
• 20 We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as
  though God were making his appeal through us. We
  implore you on Christ's behalf Be reconciled to
  God.

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Jesus as our Model in Missions

• He proclaimed the good news of the Kingdom of God
• He taught the Word of God
• He healed the sick touched the outcast
• He fed the hungry
• He delivered people from demon possession
• He loved sinners
• This is our model for holistic missionsboth word
  and deed

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Characteristics of a Missions Mindset

• Knows that Jesus is The Way
• Understands that missions is the responsibility
  of every Christian
• Calls people to move out
• Knows that God uses his children to change the
  world
• Understands that missions is about servanthood

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Individual Reflection

• Can we call a STM trip Christian if the name of
  Jesus is not involved?

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Participants in STM
Senders
Goers
Host Receivers
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STM Participants

• Those who sendLord Jesus Christ, churches,
  individuals, schools, mission organizations,
  professional organizations
• Those who goteams, families, individuals
• Those who receive STM teamsmissionaries,
  indigenous churches/missions, professionals

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The 3 Ps Key Elements for a Successful STM
Trip

• Prayer
• Planning
• Preparation

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Centrality of Prayer

• STM is ultimately Gods work
• Prayer demonstrates
• Faith trust in God
• Any success will be Gods blessing
• He can provide all that is needed
• A humble dependence on the hand of God to be
  there

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Planning to Maximize the Long-Term Impact

• Impact ALL stakeholders
• Seek long-term partnerships
• Plan and count the cost of long-term commitments
• Prepare well in order to ensure the maximum
  long-term impact

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Key Principle

• Do not just go where and when you want, assuming
  that you are or will be a blessing!

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Cross-Cultural MinistryChallenges Opportunities

• Anticipating the unforeseen
• The necessity of flexibility
• Dealing with cross-cultural issues
• Opportunities for personal growth

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Be prepared to be flexible

• Cross-cultural ministry is
• Challenging
• Unpredictable
• Exhausting
• Exhilarating
• A mutual blessing
• Laced with unknowns

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Key Principle

• We need a long-term view of short-term missions

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The Birth of a STM IdeaSession IV
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• Everyone knows that short-term missions
  benefit the people who come, not the people
  here.
• --JoAnn VanEngen, The Other Side, Jan-Feb 2000

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Individual Reflection

• What were the factors that led to a STM trip in
  your local church and how did you decide where to
  go?

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Where does it all begin?

• Understanding needs and/or opportunities
• Understanding the wide array of possibilities for
  STM trips
• Involving both senders and receivers early in the
  process
• Developing a shared vision of purpose and trip
  goals with all participants

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Key Principle

• From the very beginning, the most important
  aspect of STM is PRAYER

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Planning Steps for STM Trip

1. Develop a vision
2. Decide where to go
3. Decide on the trip purpose
4. Decide on the target group of interest
5. Decide on who should or could go

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Step 1Develop a Vision

• Early stage is one of discernment
• Seek counsel of others who have been involved in
  earlier STM trips
• Communicate early in the process with the
  receiving host missionary or other person

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The Discernment Process

• Starting place prayer
• Next, get counsel from others
• Pastor
• Missions committee
• Others who have been on STM trips
• A missionary or person in host country
• Next, prayer

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Some Key Questions

1. Why are we thinking about doing this mission?
2. What is the overall STM trip objective?
3. Does it fit into the missions vision of our
   church?
4. Is our vision shared by the on-site receiver
   host?
5. How can we measure success?

Answering these questions lays the foundation for
a well-purposed STM trip.
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Different Types of STM Trips

• Relief
• Short-term in focus
• Addresses immediate needs
• Can lead to development objectives
• Easiest type of STM trip to plan
• Reconstruction/construction
• Ownership is a critical issue
• Development
• Long-term in focus
• Must rest on a partnership
• Seeks to build capacity
• Is difficult to plan and implement

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Step 2How do you decide where to go?
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Location Selection Issues

• OpportunityIs there a partnering missionary
  on-site?
• StrategicIs there a mission on the receiving end
  with whom our local church may have interest in
  developing a long-term partnership?
• Riskshealth safety concerns
• Cost timerequirements constraints

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Destinations of STM

• Domestic
• Relief
• Urban areas
• Rural areas
• People groups

• International
• Place
• Target group
• Need

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Step 3Deciding on Trip Purpose
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Possible STM Themes

• Drama/arts/crafts/music puppets
• Vacation Bible school
• Sports
• Youth camps
• Construction/well drilling
• Street ministry
• Medical
• Veterinarian
• Teaching/training

• Literature distribution
• Relief
• Business as mission
• Agronomy/agriculture
• Healing/prayer
• Family/marriage seminars
• Service/helps
• Vision trip
• Family therapy
• Vacation with a purpose

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Vision Trips

• Becoming very popular
• Time for discernment
• Opportunity to consider possibilitiesinforms
  prayer decision making
• Requires minimal resources
• Can lay foundation for more productive team visit
• Perhaps especially appropriate for churches
  without existing missions program
• Numbers 13-1412 spies into the Promised Land (40
  days)
• Joshua 11-242 men went (5 days) to spy out
  Jericho

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Step 4Possible STM Target Groups

• Local Parish or community/neighborhood
• Children in church/community
• Prison ministry
• Street kids
• Orphans
• Nursing home
• Home for disadvantageddeaf, physically
  handicapped, blind
• Displaced people--
• Etc

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Step 5Deciding who goes

• Individuals
• Couples
• Families
• Small groups (3-5)
• Typical groups (7-15)
• Large groups (gt15)

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Students

• Particularly for college students, short-term
  cross-cultural experiences have the potential for
  being one of the most formative and worldview
  shaping pedagogical experiences of their college
  career.
• Source Johnstone in Missiology, Oct 06, p.528

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Involving those who receive teams early in the
process

• Necessity of a point of contact in host county
• Coordinating schedules availability (and
  interest)
• Deciding jointly on overall mission

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Process of STM
Pre- Field
On- Field
Post- Field
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Some guidance on planning

• Seek to determine how you can best serve the host
  receiver
• Ultimately the host receiver determines when you
  come and what you do
• Be sure you are invited
• Be sure the timing is good for the receiving
  community
• Use your best communication skills in openness
  and honesty
• Seek to lay the foundation for a long-term
  partnership
• Seek to discern Gods agenda for the tripmuch
  prayer

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Engaging Senders and Receivers in the STM
ProcessSession V
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Who are the senders?

• Lord Jesus Christ
• The local church
• Individuals
• Sometimes businesses
• Schools
• Professional organizations

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Why should local churches be interested in STM?

• The benefits of a church participating in the
  missions enterprise are significant
• STM teams energize the churchvision for
  outreach, prayer, giving for missions
• STM attracts new members

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Why should local churches be interested in STM?
(cont)

• STM can open doors for servicedevelop leaders,
  other ministry involvement
• New sense of the importance of evangelism and
  missions awareness
• Strengthen relationships with missionaries
• Bottom line It can transform your church
  forever!

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• Mission in both its widest and more focused sense
  is what the church is there for.
• - N.T. Wright

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Sending Supporters

• Christ the Holy Spirit
• Prayer supporters
• Financial supporters
• Logistical supporters
• Emotional supporters
• Communication supporters
• Re-entry supporters

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Fellow Workers
Senders

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Remember

• People like helping people (especially the poor
  and downtrodden)

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Seize the opportunity to mobilize missions
awareness

• Importance of building bridges with the local
  church
• It takes time
• It must be strategic and intentional
• Lay the groundwork for future teams
• Local church needs to have ownership
• Prayer support can engage many different parts of
  the church
• Importance of a commissioning service (and
  reception)
• Get the pastor involved, especially to GO on a
  STM trip

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How do you build bridges with the sending church?

• Communicate (throughout the process)
• Learn how your church operates
• Submit to the authority of the leadership
• Recruit people to pray
• Involve many people financially
• Ask the church for commissioning
• Report back
• Source Stepping Out A Guide to STM

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Key Principle

• The preparation process is a critical time to
  maximize the impact of STM on the local church.

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Sending churchpre-field responsibilities

• Mutual (with host receivers) design of
  visittaking ownership
• Assist in building support and fundraising
• Assist in recruiting, screening, and selection
  process of those who will go
• Prayer supportmissions committee, education
  classes, Sunday prayers, etc.

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Guidelines for Prayer Supporters

• Filling and empowerment by the Holy Spirit so
  that each STM member can be an effective witness
  for Christ
• For those who gologistics, health, support,
  other concerns
• For the on-field facilitators and the target
  group of outreach
• For effective training, on-field debriefing,
  post-field follow through
• Each person who goes should have a prayer partner

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Engaging the Receivers
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Critical Role of Host Receiver
Pre-Field On-Field Post-Field
Long-Term Impacts
Host Receiver
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Why host receivers should be interested in STM

• Develops relationships with sending churches
• Can be a source of encouragement
• Can be a conduit for increased financial support
• Opportunity to share their vision in equipping
  others for ministry
• Opportunity to develop lasting friendships and
  partnerships
• Accomplish projects perhaps not otherwise feasible

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Host receivers pre-field responsibilities

• Mutual design of visit with the sending entityDo
  what? When? Where?
• Focus is on the intended recipients of the teams
  ministry
• Logistical support for those who comelodging,
  transportation, finances
• Sharing of informationmanaging risks

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Vision for Partnerships
Sending Church
Host Receiver Mission Local People
STM
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Forming a STM TeamSession VI
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Overall Process

1. Prayer for God to guide
2. Assemble a core team
3. Team formation
4. Team building
5. Team preparation

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Key Principle

• Do not underestimate the importance of PRAYER
  throughout the STM process

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Assembling a Core Group

• The base on which to build an effective team
• People with STM experience
• People with certain skills
• Highly respected individuals
• People who are in the know
• Strategic people for future trips

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Forming a Team

• Core group enters into dialogue with others
  directly and indirectly
• Invite expressions of interest only, not
  commitments
• Need application process
• Obtain concurrence from pastor or other church
  leader

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Who is qualified to go?

• Only believers?
• Only those deemed to be spiritually mature?
• Only with a pastors recommendation?
• Only those who exceed a minimum age?
• Outsiders?
• People with special skills or gifts?
• Only healthy individuals? Do you screen for
  physical conditions?
• Note Can make a special effort to include
  foreign nationals

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Key Principle

• In general, there is something that virtually
  anyone can do on most STM trips.

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Ideal Team Member Qualities

• Believer in Christ
• Teachable spirit
• Servant heart
• Team player
• Flexible
• Good health
• Note seek to include individuals with language
  proficiency

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Being a fool for God

• Young man met with a church council to talk about
  missions. Chairman said to a young man Young
  man, sit down! You are an enthusiast. When God
  pleases to convert the heathen Hell do it
  without consulting you are me. He was talking
  to a mere cobblerWilliam Carey)
• Carey was a fool for GodGod chooses the foolish
  to accomplish his purposes (1 Cor. 127)

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Retired PeopleValuable Resource

• Skills
• Maturity
• Time
• Resources

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What size team?

• Depends on
• Purpose of the trip
• Possibly number of chaperones
• Resources available

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Good average sizes for teams

• Veterinarian 7
• Prayer/healing 5
• Teaching 3
• Street
• evangelism 10
• Vision trip 3-4

• Construction 10-12
• Medical 15
• Bible School 8
• Business-as-
• mission 2-3
• Drama 8
• Sports 7

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Question Dialogue

• Why do people go on STM trips?

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What motivates some people to go?

• In fact, people participate in STM with a wide
  variety of motivations
• We dont always understand our own motivations
• This is why team building is importantto bring
  some coherence to the shared motivation for
  ministry to others

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Key Principle

• Our Motivation for going influences what happens
  when we get there!

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Some Perspectives on STM

• Missions should be fun!
• Tension Am I driven by my sense of adventure or
  desire to follow Christ?
• What is the difference between mission and
  vacation-with-a-purpose?
• Why go? The shopping will be great!
• What makes a trip a missions trip?

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Promotional Material for a STM Trip

• Well spend the weekin Guadalajara (known as
  the shopping capital of Mexico)And this trip
  isnt a rough-roach-in-your-bed kind of
  experience eitherwell be housed in nice clean
  hotel rooms, eat lots of salsa, and have plenty
  of time to shop!...If you are remotely interested
  in this adventureor if youre just in the mood
  for Mexico after all this winter weathercall for
  more details about this fantastic outreach
  opportunity.
• --Glen Schwartz (2004), Intl. J. of Frontier
  Missions 20(4)

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Reasons for Going

• Cross cultural adventure
• It will change your life (1 reason given)
• It will change their lives (most common in
  raising support)

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Key Principle

• Good intentions are not sufficient

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Proverbs 192

• It is not good to have zeal without knowledge,
  nor to be hasty and miss the way.

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Team Formation
Team Building
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Building a STM TeamSession VII
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Key Principle

• Team building takes time

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Characteristics of Effective Teams

1. Clear elevating goal
2. Results-driven structure (roles)
3. Competent team members
4. Unified commitment
5. Collaborative climate (honesty, respect..)
6. Standards of excellence (skills)
7. External support recognition
8. Principled leadership

Source Study at U. of Denver of 16K groups)
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Meeting agenda components

• Bible study (devotional) and prayer
• Language practice
• Logistics planning
• Budget and funding issues/update
• Team building activitiesincluding spiritual
  formation objectives
• Specific topicsteam preparation
• Dialoguebuilding relationships sharing
  expectations, concerns, etc.

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Effective Planning Preparation

• Once teams are initially formed, the process of
  team building begins
• This is a time to discourage some from
  participating
• Develop with the group a schedule of meetings and
  the responsibilities of each participant
• Consider a team member covenant at some point to
  ensure commitment and participation

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Core values for teamwork

• Servant spirit, respect
• Humility/sacrifice
• Overcoming selfishness
• Perseverance together--commitment
• Commitment to resolution of conflicts, openness
• Recognition we are all different!

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Biblical Principles for Team Building

• Romans 151-7
• Philippians 21-4, 5-11
• John 1721-23
• Matthew 523-24

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Shared Goals
Interdependence
Accountability
Defining Teams vs Groups
Commitment
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Patchwork teams?

• Individuals from other churches
• Outsiders/friends
• Opportunity for diversity in crossing church
  boundaries
• Challenge to leadership team building
• Opportunity for ministry

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Team Building

• Leader must be the catalyst
• Need a shared vision and team covenant for the
  STM trip
• Participants need to understand roles and
  responsibilities differences
• Be intentional about team building

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Vision Purpose

• What is the vision for the STM trip?
• What are the desired outcomes?
• How can the team best prepare to achieve desired
  results?
• How will the team hope to measure success?
• What is the motivation for going for each team
  member?

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Personal Reflection

• A covenant is a tool that can help bring
  cohesion, shared vision and commitment to an
  effort. What do you think should be the
  components of a STM team covenant?

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Team covenant

• To love one another
• To bless one another
• To be a blessing to the nationals
• To be a blessing to the host receivers/missionarie
  s
• To fulfill Gods purpose for the trip
• To dedicate the time necessary

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Participants and Giftedness

• Every person is created in the image of God
• Every person is gifted by God
• Individual gifts can be expressed in the context
  of a team to benefit the entire team
• Need to help participants discover their gifts
  during the team formation phase
• Members have different personalities

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Possible roles on the team

• Food and drinks
• Photographer
• Media person
• Translator
• Luggage

• Finances
• Passports
• Currency
• Medical issues, medications, etc.

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Goers responsibilities pre-field

• Pray, pray, pray
• Secure sending supporters, especially prayer
  intercessors
• Prepare!
• Personal preparation
• Cross-cultural training/learning
• Logistics preparation
• Ministry preparation