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Short-Term Mission

The Future of Short-Term Mission Trips?

Can we continue to redress the imbalances of financial power, whilst sending affluent teams to work with partners on a short-term basis? How do we prioritise the development of emerging leaders from the Global South when our flagship missional discipleship programmes are inaccessible to those outside the UK?

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Short-Term Mission

Local Churches and Short-Term Mission Trips

What should a church leader do when a member decides they would like to go on a short term mission trip?

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Do Not Use

Throwback: There Is No Such Thing As Short-Term Mission

Mission is first and foremost to make disciples.That is not a short term project, it can’t be done in just a few weeks or even a few months.

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Short-Term Mission

Catching Up With Reality

There are exceptions, but for the most part, short-term mission still has a west to the rest vibe.

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Short-Term Mission

Short Term Mission Research: Initial Findings

Some initial findings in my research into short-term mission trips.

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Observations

Books I Have Read: Ours to Explore

Ours to Explore: Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism investigates voluntourism’s past and present, uncovering the complicated roots of the modern global phenomenon from the eighteenth century through today.

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Short-Term Mission

When Mission Turns Toxic

When we make our needs the centre of mission, we demean those we claim to serve and, frankly, we make God and his mission instrumental in our organisational strategy – and that’s never a good thing to do.

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Short-Term Mission

More Mission?

Recently, and not for the first time, I surprised – shocked, even – some colleagues with an opinion. Someone had suggested that we could all agree that we wanted to see more people from the UK involved in mission, but I was not convinced. Cue incomprehension. Just about every mission agency in the country is […]

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Short-Term Mission

The Future of Missions 2

Quotes from a report; some interesting, some thought-provoking and at least one which is infuriating.

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Short-Term Mission

Initial Observations of Mission Agency Responses to Coronavirus

This initial analysis reveals a weakness in the online presence of a number of mission agencies. A number of websites had news sections which had not been updated recently; in one case the latest item of news dated back to 2016.