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Without a good debriefing, you've missed the point of a mission project. Debriefing connects the dots for participants, helping them to see what God i...
I know I said this would be a 6-part series on debriefing, but the traffic on my blog site was so heavy last week, it seems like many of you have a st...
We were on a project in Matamoros nine years ago. I'll never forget the impact it made on my 12-year old boy to see Mexican kids who hadn't eaten in a...
Question 31: Did you lie in answering any of the previous questions? 4 Re-entry patterns Alienation: "I can't relate to anything I experienced...
What were the high points and the low points? Who most encouraged you on the trip? Did you accomplish your goals? What did God do? W...
Debriefing is not the same as evaluating. All aspects of a mission trip need to be evaluated by leaders in order to understand how they can be done be...
Why debrief? Because Jesus did it with his disciples. We see Jesus' model of a short-term mission trip in Luke 9 and 10 as he sends out first t...
I'm in the midst of a season of travel. Just back from Virginia where I connected with two old friends. Back in 1984 we had gone through Celebration o...
After reading the blog a few days ago on leading mission projects, Tony Sheng asked me to write something about debriefing them. Debriefing is a c...
Anybody looking at my family might assume that life is hunky dory. But we've been going through a season of failure lately. Yesterday I got turned dow...
