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Pursuing HIS Purpose

Explore the impact of short-term trips from the field's perspective. Discover ways to create long-term positive impact on communities. Principles and objectives cater to sustainable development and community ownership.

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Pursuing HIS Purpose

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  1. Pursuing HIS Purpose Using Short Term Teams for Long Term Impact

  2. What Kind of Things Have You Done on Your Short Term Trips?

  3. How much does a short term trip cost?

  4. Images of Short Term Missions

  5. Who are we serving? “I think it is disturbing that nearly all of the research on STM focuses on the North Americans. I know of no guidebooks to prepare communities for receiving short-term missionaries, but there are dozens to prepare North Americans who go on such trips.” Kurt Ver Beek, professor of sociology and third-world development at Calvin College

  6. Images of Short Term Missions

  7. The Objectives of this Session • To reflect on the impact of short term trips from the perspective of the field • To explore ways of doing short term work that have positive long term impact not only on the North American, but on the communities they visit

  8. Going Places and Doing Things For People • Medical Clinics • Buildings • Evangelistic Crusades • Children’s Ministries • Distribution of Food and Clothing Makes us feel good about ourselves, but what is the long term impact on the community?

  9. Going Places and doing things for people • Are we reinforcing poverty of mind and spirit? • Are we creating dependency? • Are we stifling initiative? • Are we producing models that are not sustainable or multipliable? Who are we helping?

  10. Principles for Long Term Impact • Community Ownership • Integration • Development • Multiplication • Participatory Learning and Truth

  11. Community Ownership • Leave people with a vision for what THEY CAN DO to improve the quality of their lives and to minister to the needs of others • Involve people in identifying needs and resources, and making plans • Build cooperation; get people working together • Don’t blueprint plans from the outside

  12. Integration • Keep faith and works together • Promote obedience to everything Jesus commanded • Promote development in wisdom, stature, and favor with God and man

  13. Development • Involve people as responsible participants rather than passive recipients • Build capacity rather than creating dependency • Giving the gift of dignity • Think beyond relief to development • Think beyond cure to prevention

  14. Multiplication • Look beyond sustainability to multiplication • Focus on the use of local resources • Avoid dependency on outsiders for success of programs

  15. Participatory Learning and Truth • Cast vision rather than blueprinting action plans • Pose problems rather than solutions • Dialogue rather than lecture

  16. Structuring for Long Term Impact • A long term strategy and plan that is impact focused and that empowers people to take control of their own ministries • A commitment to long term mutually transforming relationships with overseas partners • An informed champion within the home church who will take responsibility for the work

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