Missions
Get Ready for Your Mission
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Are Short Term Mission Trips Effective?
A minority of Christians claim that short-term missions are a waste of finances. There are many and varied reasons why some hold to this point of view, but can we quantify a price for a soul?
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What is a Mission Trip?
The Devil would love to convince you that all this mission stuff isn’t for you. The Devil is a liar and you know it!
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Money for your Short-Term Missions
Many Christians who go on a short-term mission (STMs) are happy to ask their church or fellow believers for financial support towards the trip. However, some may not feel able to ask for money towards their STM or like Abraham, after rescuing Lot, he refused the spoils of war from the King of Sodom, thus not allowing the king any opportunity to boast that he had made Abraham rich (Genesis 14:12-24). You may be surprised how many individuals or churches give small amounts towards STMs or nothing at all and then boast as if they entirely supported the mission team!
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Extreme Short-Term Missions
The type of independent missions that take you to isolated areas or remote tribes cost considerably more than your average trip with any mission organisation, though you can tie up with specialist agencies and NGOs.
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Kingdom Advancement – Sowers, Reaper and Builders
The Bible speaks of Sowers, Reapers and Builders, and in the Kingdom of God we all have our part to play.
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Social Justice and the Mission Field
Christianity spread around the globe with the idea of the fundamental equality of mankind, but on your short-term mission (STM) abroad you may witness some disturbing sights including inequality, oppression, slave labour and poor animal welfare.
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Financing Short-Term Missions
There are many methods of raising support and obtaining your financial needs for your short-term mission.
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Missionary Giants of the Faith – William Carey, Hudson Taylor & C.T. Studd
The men of faith that changed the world. What can we learn from them?
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Short-Term Missions in the Bible
Abraham must have been pestered and perhaps even cross-examined by his family when God called him to go on his mission, leaving as men would say, ‘a certain for an uncertain good.’
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Thirteen Waves of Christian Missions
Historically, there have been at least thirteen distinct waves of Christian missions with new missionaries, short-term and long-term, being raised up and sent forth into God’s harvest fields.
