Create lasting results with a NEW short term mission’s experience. See short term missions as a discipleship & spiritual formation training platform for the one who goes. This new paradigm is in response to the short comings exposed in the new book; Effective Engagement in short term missions; doing it right by Robert J. Priest
Genesis 1:5 - Meditate the Scripture Daily bit by bit
Short Term Missions long term results
1. Short Term Missions / long term transformation No Mission worth taking is really “short term”
2. Seeking long term transformation in a short term world The Long View The NEW short term missions are as much about learning as teaching. They are as much about receiving as giving. They are as much about what happens after we get home as what happens during the time we are there, and as much about transformation occurring in our own hearts, as in those whom we serve. The truth is most churches are trying to develop exactly this kind of short term missions. The trips themselves may be short, but we want their effect to be lasting: producing lasting friendships, lasting benefits to the people whom we serve and lasting transformation in our own lives.
3.
4.
5.
6. History of STM 1949 – Methodist Missions Board 1958 – Wheaton College 1960 – OM & YWAM 1963 – GEM 1966 – Nazarene University 1972 - Taylor University 1980 – Adventures in Missions
7. Houston - we have a problem! Obedience to the great commission has more consistently been poisoned by affluence than by anything else . - Ralph Winter Percent who tithe Professing Christians: 5% Professing Born Again: 9% Professing Evangelicals: 24% The percent tithed 1933 - tithing 3.3 % 2005 - tithing 2.58 % Currently - 2 % 98% stays here with the American church
8.
9. Case study: Honduras 1998 “Mitch” Building Project - CIOD (Christian Int. Dev. Org.) $2 mil. + reconstruction most used for building 1,082 new homes 31 STM teams each spent $30,000 air, lodging, local expenses Each team built one house normal cost $2,000 (if STM not involved) Transformation Change?: Prayer, volunteering, financial giving, interest in poor countries Self appraisal: 16% significant, 45% slight positive, 40% no change Self appraisal: financial giving to CIDO; 60% significantly increase Triangulate: CIDO 3 year records 75% no donations (church same)
10. STM Mountain Top Experience Success Metric? Counter attack plan? Training priorities?
16. Holistic Partnerships Don’t rush it We can help the professionals Resource their gifting & long term commitment to the community We work under their authority - impose don’t impart. World Vision Global Resources Network We don’t have to be the NGO We get to focus on discipleship We Insure we, do no harm We build greater capacity Collaboration – Work as the body for the Kingdom
