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Tag: short-term missions
How to Rethink Your Short-Term Trips
There is often problematic baggage that comes with traditional short-term mission trips. Here are ways to make sure your trips are having the intended effect.
How to Encourage Generosity Toward Missions in Your Church
An approach for cultivating a culture of generosity
How to Maximize the Benefits of a Short-Term Mission Trip
Making sure your trip is a meaningful one
Why You Might Want to Reconsider Your Short-Term Trips
Make sure your short-term trips are helping, not hurting, the communities and missionaries they are sent to serve.
Why We May Need a New Missions Metaphor
It's time to change the way we think about foreign missions and adopt a new missions metaphor.
10 Missions Pastor Lessons I’ve Learned
As a missions pastor, these are 10 lessons Ive learned along the way as Ive served my church in this role. 1. Take Time to Learn, Dream and Build a Good Foundation. Before jumping into engagement and activities, take the time to build a good, well thought through foundation for mission engagement and activity. This […]
How to Approach Short-Term Trips in 2021
Pivoting your strategy in a transitional year
The Missions Strategy Shift We Need to Make in 2021
Are we willing to step out of the limelight and consider a missions strategy shift?
Canceled Mission Trips Give Us an Opportunity for Self-Reflection
With much of the world in various stages of lockdown, short-term mission trips have become one of the first summer casualties. Planes are grounded. Airports are quiet. And the folks who print all those matching mission trip T-shirts are wondering when business will pick up again. But I, for one, am grateful someone hit the […]