Short-term missions

Short-term missions

Why we didn't ask for money for Ike

It was almost two weeks ago that I posted a call to action to help clean up the areas that Hurricane Ike had devastated. This past week, we distribute...

Short-term missions

Help clean up after hurricane Ike!

I just got this report from Athol Barnes, an AIM staff member: The damage is very similar to Katrina and the New Orleans Gulf coast area. W...

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Following up on your short-term trip

Stephanie Fisk ministered in the garbage dumps of Nicaragua last year. It was one of the highlights of her year. The stories she told of her experie...

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Short-term missions trips continue to boom

When I first started going on short-term mission trips in 1975, I was an oddball.  No one knew what to make of a high school student going off to Gua...

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Youth leader from Jamaica trip responds

Last week on one of our projects to Jamaica, three thugs broke into our compound and held our young people at gunpoint.  The media called and wante...

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Doing Short-Terms Missions without Doing Long-Term Harm

I ran across this good article from the Chalmers Center, part of which I excerpt here: Doing Short-Terms Missions without Doing Long-Term Harm b...

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Short-term missions done poorly

I'm headed home from Florida, will meet my board at the airport in Atlanta for our semi-annual meeting. It's going to be a low-key, quick meeting. The...

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How mission projects change lives

The validity of short-term missions stands or falls on its linkage to the spiritual growth that missions projects are supposed to produce in participa...

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The case for short-term missions, Pt. 2

Continued from The case for short-term missions Let's dissect each of our flawed models in order to gain a better understanding of how to better de...

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The case for short-term missions

I am a progeny of the short-term missions movement. My life was shaped by trips I took as a teenager to Guatemala and Peru. And here's the ripple effe...