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This past week I watched a team of six American young people take off from Swaziland to Cape Town intent on following God wherever he might lead them ...
Of all the blogs I've written, one blog stands head and shoulders above the others in popularity. It's ironic, really. Seems the world loves nothing s...
Part 4 of a series on the subject of dependency in STMs. Many youth groups for whom a short-term mission trip (STM) has become a faddish part o...
Third in a series on the issue of dependency focuses on why it can backfire on your group. For the participants of the sending church, a sense of d...
Second in a series on the issue focuses on dangers to the host church. The reasons for going to a new location for a missions project are large...
First in a series on the issue of dependency, focusing on your objectives in going. If you are working with a host partner and your objective i...
Youth minister Lizzy Robblee sent me the following email in response to the blog on the faddishness of short-term missions: I have been in yout...
The standards of STM excellence that our committee compiled a few years ago is a good place for anyone interested in the subject to start. Here is St...
The standards of STM excellence that our committee compiled a few years ago is a good place for anyone interested in the subject to start. Here is St...
Yesterday's blog dealt with the faddishness that is undermining the credibility of many STMs. The point of the discussion is not, "stop doing them;" ...
