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A Framework for Incorporating the Arts in Short-Term Missions

September 01, 2014 by Ian Collinge

Tags: arts, engagement, indigenous, missions, music, short-term mission

As I jotted down Hausa lyrics and melodies on a four-week visit to church members in Nigeria, I had no idea that eight years later a focus on the arts of others would become central to my life’s...

“In Praise of Short-term Missions”

January 01, 2012 by Dave Datema

Tags: discipleship, mission, short-term mission

Well, I’m pretty sure the title for this column has never before appeared in the pages of MF. While troubles remain in the theory and practice of short-term missions (STMs), this issue shows that...

Short-Term Trips, Bible Storying and Church-Planting

January 01, 2012 by Doug Bender and Steve Sims

Tags: mission, short-term mission

I (Doug) had trekked to a handful of countries on short-term mission trips in the past. These trips focused on various humanitarian efforts or maybe the occasional Vacation Bible School, but never...

Can Short-Term Teams Foster Long-Term Church-Planting Movements?
The Greatest Blessing Is to Train Others to Start Churches

January 01, 2012 by William Y. Smith

Tags: mission, short-term mission

As the overcrowded and under–maintained bus slowed to pick up a passenger on the rural Asian road, an older woman stepped out of the bushes. The bus struck her and knocked her 20 feet, killing her...

Learning from the Mission Field How to Plant Churches

January 01, 2012 by Rick Wood

Tags: short-term mission

Short-term missions are legendary for their pitfalls and problems. We have spoken numerous times in MF about our concerns and the damage that many short-term mission efforts have done. Poorly...

Can Short-Term Teams Foster Long-Term Church-Planting?

January 01, 2012 by

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Projecting Poverty Where It Doesn’t Exist

September 01, 2011 by Steve Saint

Tags: poverty, short-term mission

I have been in relationship with the Waodani since 1956, when they killed my dad Nate and four of his friends. My relationship continued through the time my aunt Rachel lived with them beginning in...

Editorial Comment

May 01, 2005 by Ralph D. Winter

Tags: agency, mission, short-term mission

Dear Reader,

Some problems are so big or so urgent that we cannot wait until a solution has been achieved to tell about them and attract attention to them. No good solution? This may be an...

Maximum Impact Short-Term Missions

March 01, 2004 by Ralph D. Winter

Tags: short-term mission

The short-term mission movement has been around long enough for it to be almost inevitable that the dozens of short-term agencies would form some sort of an association, and that within this new...

Short-Term Mission Trips:
Maximizing the Benefits

March 01, 2004 by Glenn Schwartz

Tags: short-term mission

A burgeoning interest in Christian missions has produced a new interest in short-term missions (STMs). This has resulted in thousands of shorttermers going out across our world. (One recent report...

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