Short-Term Missions
Importance of Short-Term Missions
- Help local ministry grow
- Partnership with existing ministries in local churches
- Missionaries
- Window into the life of missionary work
- Life experiences in mission fields
- Mission major students
- High schoolers looking for direction and career
- Adults interested or called to the mission field
- All nation (GO)… (Matt. 28)
- GO (life
- Discipleship
- Long-term investment (relationship and ministry) year-round movements DNA
- Relationship with local churches and leaders
- Relationship with missionaries
- Finical support
- Prayer for mission field
- Short term for long term
- Freshness, new fire/revival
- Help missionaries
- Add new or fresh support
- Attention-getter for local churches
Types of Short-Terms
Coversionary
Focus on gospel proclamations
Alter calls
Connection with churches
Mercy & Compassion
Handouts (Charity)
Building
Community-based works
Faith based vacation
Vision trip
Cultural education
Tourism
“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
Matthew 9:37-38