Maximum Impact Short-Term Mission: The God-Commanded Repetitive Deployment of Swift, Temporary Non-Professional Missionaries - Softcover

Roger P. Peterson; Gordon Aeschliman; R. Wayne Sneed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971125813 ISBN 13: 9780971125810

Publisher: STEM Press, 2008

Synopsis

The most recent April 2008 second print run of this 285-page comprehensive perfect-bound paperback features everything you need to know to organize a short-term mission trip with high-level Kingdom impact and across-the-board effectiveness. This insight-laden second edition also includes the finalized Seven U.S. Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission, in addition to:

• the exceptionally constructive 9-cell planning matrix, the MISTM-Grid
• your must-plan time frames (pre-field, on-field, post-field)
• your must-include stakeholders (senders, goers, receivers)
• ground-breaking, solid short-term mission theology (OT & NT)
• historical overview of short-term mission, including more than 40 case studies of churches, agencies, and schools which send STMs
• 16 well-drawn illustrations/tables which capture summarized snapshots of the critical subject matter contained in this book.

Maximum Impact Short-Term Mission can help mission trip leaders reduce unnecessary exposure (risk) and improve mission trip outcomes for everyone involved, by helping to correctly identify all stakeholder and their three time periods of short-term mission trip responsibility.

About this title

About the Author

Lead co-author Roger Peterson is in the ministry 'business' of helping churches and organizations reduce their risk when doing short-term mission trips, by presenting field-tested, researched insight for improving across-the-board outcomes in both short- and long-term programs. He is the Founder/President of STEM Int'l (Minneapolis, Minnesota), an engaging speaker, and oft-cited author in Christian short-term missions. Roger can be contacted at: STEMintl.org
 
Co-author Wayne Sneed is President of Orphanos Foundation (Memphis, Tennessee), and has traveled, lived, and/or worked extensively in various parts of God's world. Wayne can be contacted at Orphanos.org

From the Back Cover

Short-term mission is one of two or three largest and least anticipated major mutations in modern mission. It involves both scandal and promise and cannot be pursued with success apart from significant knowledge. Now, three men with extensive backgrounds in this movement have produced what should become "the Bible" of this movement.

This book provides a comprehensive, analytical, scholarly overview for designing and evaluating short-term mission work. It holds keys for effective preparation, implementation, and future integration for those who go and the hosts who receive.

Maximum Impact Short-Term Mission offers a helpful guide for church teams, agencies, and undergraduate and graduate study.

Edition details

• Publisher: STEM Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0971125813
• ISBN 13: 9780971125810
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288