In this summer season of mission projects, a lot of people are being thrust into high pressure leadership situations in strange environments with peop...
On any given short-term mission project, two roles must be fulfilled. Because a lot of leaders have never been trained in either of these roles, they ...
Here's one of the best lessons I ever learned...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
