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Core Components
Our book outlines four core components of successful short-term missions.
Unity
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Mutuality
Any critical and regenerative conversation about short-term missions must engage and celebrate a diversity of voices from churches all over the world. This requires the hard work of building relationships on new foundations.
Any critical and regenerative conversation about short-term missions must engage and celebrate a diversity of voices from churches all over the world. This requires the hard work of building relationships on new foundations.
Humility
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Repentance
We must actively confront, critique, and deconstruct damaging global-historical forces—like colonialism, political disparity, and economic inequality—in order to find a way forward together as the global church.
Any critical and regenerative conversation about short-term missions must engage and celebrate a diversity of voices from churches all over the world. This requires the hard work of building relationships on new foundations.
Curiosity
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Teachability
Those who are committed to re-imagining STM must learn to be “proactively curious” and to seek hard after new knowledge and understanding—in order to re-imagine what is, and to dream of what could be.
Any critical and regenerative conversation about short-term missions must engage and celebrate a diversity of voices from churches all over the world. This requires the hard work of building relationships on new foundations.
Creativity
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Contextualization
It will take courageous creativity to generate alternatives to the status quo. We must learn to re-imagine how cross-cultural travel, service, and above all, relationship building might be designed for the beautiful particularities of every unique context.
Any critical and regenerative conversation about short-term missions must engage and celebrate a diversity of voices from churches all over the world. This requires the hard work of building relationships on new foundations.
Our Contributors
This book offers honest perspectives from people who care about the purposes of
short-term missions (STM) yet know that we must figure out better ways of achieving
them. Nearly all contributors are actively engaged in STM—and many write from the
perspective of those who host STM teams in places all over the world.
Reviews
"I recommend reading this book before embarking on a short-term mission trip. It will open the hearts and minds of those who want their experience to be respectful and to serve to create a more egalitarian world that brings us closer to the kingdom of God."
ERIKA ALVAREZ,
Gestora de proyectos en Casa Adobe, Costa Rica