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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
