Download or read book The Volunteer s Back Pocket Guide to Youth Mission Trips written by Toby Rowe and published by Group Publishing (Company). This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the secrets to a successful mission experience with The Volunteer's Back Pocket Guide to Youth Mission Trips. This useful, practical book will guide you through the sometimes rough but always rewarding waters of a short-term mission trip. You'll discover how to connect with your students, how to prepare for the unexpected, and how to savor those priceless moments you only find on a mission trip.
Download or read book Mission Tripping written by Danny Kwon and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a short-term mission trip with youth be an effective form of missions ministry?Learn from veteran youth worker Danny Kwon--who has taken teens on 44 short-term international and domestic mission trips--what sort of preparation and practices make a trip with youth accomplish great things for the Kingdom and change the lives and hearts of many people along the way, including the teens themselves. From choosing a location and form of service to preparing a report for your church and supporters when you return, every step of your mission trip is covered here with the kind of practical advice and wisdom that only comes from real life experience in youth ministry mission trip trenches. Learn how to prepare your team spiritually for the trip, how to pack for a team, how to get a group of teens to the airport gate on time or home from the road trip safely--it's all in Mission Tripping, a must-have for any youth worker wanting to do short-term missions well and incorporate a holistic approach to the Great Commission in their youth group year round.Mission Tripping includes:A philosophy of short-term missions with youth and vision for year-round missional ministryDetailed advice on driving and flying with teens--to both domestic and international destinationsPractical tips for making the most of your short-term mission serviceA post-trip evaluation tool for leaders and youthThe Leader's Guide for Mission Tripping: An Interactive Journal--a companion book for students with discussion guides for 15 team meetings before, during, and after your trip
Download or read book Ready to Go Devotions for Mission and Service written by Mark Ray and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready-to-Go Devotions for Mission and Service is a toolkit of daily devotionals for youth mission trips. The devotions in this book address every aspect of the mission experience, from leaving home and sleeping on the floor to dealing with language barriers and grumpy teammates. Each devotion includes a relevant Bible story, a commentary that connects that story to the mission experience, and a section that challenges the reader to take specific actions on the trip, back home, or both. The book includes devotions in preparation for, during, and after the mission trip or service project. The ready-to-go format allows the youth worker to quickly assemble a customized devotional journal for participants, matching each day’s selection to what’s likely to happen that day. The devotions could also be used in a group setting, which would allow the youth worker to pick devotions based on what has happened during the trip or event. Either way, the devotions point to the larger biblical and personal significance of mission trip or service project happenings . What if you held a mission trip and nobody changed? It’s a haunting, daunting question, one that youth workers and researchers across America are beginning to ask. Short-term mission trips (STM) have exploded in popularity since the mid-1990s, thanks in part to the Internet, which makes connecting with mission agencies and mission recipients easier than ever. Sociologist Kurt Ver Beek estimates that the number of North American short-term missionaries grew from 125,000 in 1989 to as many as four million in 2003. Many of those short-termers are teenagers. According to Christianity Today, more than two million American teens enter the mission field every year. Pollster George Barna reports that 15 percent of U.S. Christian teens have done a short-term mission trip, while the National Study of Youth and Religion found that 29 percent of all teens had participated in a short-term mission trip or religious service project. Unfortunately, the impact of short-term mission trips may be short-term as well, both for those who go on mission trips and for those who receive mission teams. Ver Beek recently surveyed North Americans who worked in Honduras after a 1998 hurricane, as well as those who were served by them. He found that the North American work teams had “little or no lasting impact” on the communities they served and that missionaries reported only “a small, positive, lasting change” in their own lives. The situation isn’t hopeless, however, according to Robert Priest, associate professor of mission and intercultural studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. “In research with Ph.D. students at Trinity,” he wrote in Christianity Today, “I’ve been impressed that while STM may not always or automatically produce desired results, the right sorts of STM, carried out in the right sorts of ways, and accompanied by the right sorts of reflections, have potential for good.” Unfortunately, youth workers don’t always build “the right sorts of reflections” into their mission trips. At best, they allot time in the daily schedule for reflection or debriefing. At worst, they just hope and pray that their students will somehow be transformed by the mission experience. The existing literature isn’t much help. Books on mission-trip planning offer plenty of advice on selecting a mission agency, raising money, coordinating transportation, handling emergencies, entering closed countries, and re-entering the “normal” world, but they offer precious little advice on using the mission experience to impact the participants’ lives. The handful of available mission-focused devotional guides offer some assistance, but they typically take a one-size-fits-all approach. Usually presented as mission journals, these guides assume trips will be a certain length or include certain elements, such as dealing with non-English speakers. Ready-to-Go Devotions for Mission and Service fills the void, offering targeted, topical devotionals that can help turn short-term missions into life-changing experiences.
Download or read book Mission Trip Prep Kit Leader s Guide written by Kevin Johnson and published by HarperChristian Resources. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You work hard planning mission trips. Now make mission trips work for you and your group.Headed to inner-city America? Appalachia? A border shantytown? Overseas? Wherever your destination, the MISSION TRIP PREP KIT contains all you need to prepare your students for an unforgettable cross-cultural experience—and tools to debrief them after they’ve returned to their worlds.Use this kit—To get on-site impact as well as long-term spiritual change in your kids.Whether you’re a mission-trip novice or a savvy traveler outside your comfort zones.Whether your group’s trip is geared toward reaching others with the gospel or to disciple your young missionaries.In several sessions spread over a month or two—or in an intensive, two-day training session or retreat.IN THIS LEADER’S GUIDE: You’ll receive not only the rationale, the how, and the logistics of planning and pulling off a missions trip, but—and this is the genius of the leader’s guide—4 PRE-TRIP TEACHING SESSIONS that will help your students—·Assess their EXPECTATIONS, their fears, their motivations.·Adjust their PERCEPTIONS of the culture they’ll be working in.·Improve their emotional and spiritual STAMINA for living for a week or a month in a very different world from their own.·Practice the skills and ATTITUDES (teamwork, servanthood, Christ-centeredness) they’ll need for a missions trip.And to make sure your trip’s goals are accomplished and the benefits stick around for the long haul, you’ll also receive 2 POST-TRIP SESSIONS that will help you DEBRIEF your students, ease them back into their own worlds, CELEBRATE with them, and make missions and ministry part of their EVERYDAY LIVES WITH JESUS.What’s more, in these pre- and post-trip teaching sessions are a variety of ACTIVITIES...processing points...creative PRAYER IDEAS...take-home applications...BIBLE STUDIES relevant to mission tripping...TALK OUTLINES that both instruct and inspire...and lots of sessions options you can tailor to your own HIGH SCHOOLERS OR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS.
Download or read book Unbound written by Jann Treadwell and published by Huff Publishing Associates, LLC. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Unbound, Jann Treadwell has written an essential guide for leaders who want to create transformative experiences for young people that use young people's gifts to be a blessing to others. The book is filled with practical insights and ideas for navigating the details of planning and leading a mission trip that is theologically grounded, builds community and creates memories that last a lifetime. These detailed resources will save the trip planner 50 hours or more in preparation work. - JIM LADOUX, Director of Coaching and Training at Vibrant Faith Ministries
Download or read book Sonwest Roundup Volunteer Pocket Guide 10pk written by Gospel Light Publications and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the easiest way to help your volunteers get prepared to lead kids on a rip-roarin' good time with Jesus! This pocket-sized guide gives provides important information in a quick reference that will fit in the back pocket of their jeans. Included are each days Ultimate Point, Bible story, Bible verse, Jesus Connection and discussion questions. There is even a place for volunteers to record the essential information that they need as well as instant game ideas for the kids.
Download or read book Youth Leadership Guide Planning an Effective Short Term Mission s Trip written by Leslie D'Anjou and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-03 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth Leadership Guide: Planning An Effective Short-Term Mission's Trip is a book for leaders, parents, or youth. This book provides a mapped out guide from start to finish of how to plan an effective short-term mission's trip.
Download or read book A Missionary Journey written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook encourages short-term mission volunteers to reflect on the reasons why they engage in mission and how they plan and prepare to be more intentional. It helps volunteers shape the stories of their mission experiences in a way that enhances their personal and spiritual journeys.
Download or read book The Youth Worker s Big Book of Case Studies written by Steven Case and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 180 real-life case studies to get more students talking . . . and thinking!Easy answers are not easy to find. With The Youth Worker’s Big Book of Case Studies, your teenagers will be talking, and thinking about stuff that matters most in their lives. Open-ended questions, excruciating dilemmas, familiar scenarios, and going-deeper at Scripture make these cutting-edge case studies power-packed and unforgettable. Why just have mere chats with teens when you can use The Youth Worker’s Big Book of Case Studies to dig deeper, gaining insights that will enrich your group, and students’ lives outside the group!In this gigantic collection, you’ll get . . .• More than 180 faith-building case studies of issues vital to students complete with provocative discussion questions and themed Bible verses and passages!• Fun, engaging, sometimes very serious discussions!• Easy-to-use, overflowing indexes–contents, categories, multiple topics,–cross referenced for every youth leader’s need.• Among the categories dealt with: Family; School; Sex-Dating; Friends; and Growing Up.Add sizzle, spice, even a little bit of controversy to you next lesson, service, message, or sermon with The Youth Worker’s Big Book of Case Studies!
Download or read book A Mission Journey written by Una Jones and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook encourages short-term mission volunteers to reflect on the reasons why they engage in mission and how they plan and prepare to be more intentional. It helps volunteers shape the stories of their mission experiences in a way that enhances their personal and spiritual journeys.
Download or read book The Essential Guide to the Short Term Mission Trip written by David C. Forward and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Forward helps prepare leaders and members of the team for their experience as volunteers for the cause of Christ.
Download or read book Mission Trips from Start to Finish written by Lynne Ellis and published by Group Publishing (Company). This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ah, the missions trip. Whether across the city or across the globe, it can seem daunting to the inexperienced or the unprepared. But with Mission Trips From Start To Finish, you'll find expert advice to make planning and executing yours as simple as possible. This practical tool is designed to guide first-time trip planners step-by-step, while also providing old pros with a host of tools to be used over and over again. It'll save you time, headaches, and possibly legal and law enforcement trouble! Prison ministry, anyone? Seven sections cover: Think Big Recruit Your Team Prepare Your Leadership Do the Logistics Train Your Team Serve On Location Returning Home This helpful resource is broken down into three major sections: 1. Rationale and explanation of putting your mission plan together. 2. Dozens of handouts, training sheets, letters, and more (a time-saving dream!) 3. The CD-ROM containing everything from part 2 in Microsoft Word(R) and PDF formats so you can edit, print, and distribute whatever you need. On the CD-ROM you'll find: Dozens of editable and reproducible handouts, trainings, and more! 3 sets of custom-themed promotional materials Editable poster, postcards, signs and letters PowerPoint backgrounds Blank student journals to accompany your trip T-shirt designs
Download or read book Go written by Troy Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GO! A Spiritual Pocket Guide for Mission Trips is a resource designed to prepare believers both spiritually and practically for short-term missions. It is one part devotional and one part training guide. The five weeks of devotions are for personal preparation and team building. The devotions begin three weeks prior to the trip and continue through the week returning home. The guide is designed to be used as a team or individually. Even though it is written for mission trip preparation, the issues discussed will benefit all believers in their spiritual life.The GO! pocket guide is loaded with helps for mission planning such as:* Prep guides outlining important helps to prepare and experience a successful trip * Organizational planning time line with assignments for the trip leadership team members* Keys to developing a powerful testimony* A witnessing strategy that utilizes the Bible in personal evangelism* A sample letter for requesting financial support from family and friends
Download or read book The Volunteer s Field Guide to Youth Ministry written by Len Kageler and published by Group Publishing (Company). This book was released on 2011 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congratulations! You've agreed to serve as a volunteer-perhaps the most underrated, underappreciated, misunderstood role in youth ministry! But your role is also one of the most essential. Seriously-the healthiest, most effective youth ministries are built on a solid foundation of dedicated, talented, committed volunteers. The Volunteer's Field Guide to Youth Ministry will help you chart a course of growth as a follower of Christ and as a leader in your congregation. You can read it from front to back, or you can treat it like a reference tool-scan for topics that are relevant today, and save the rest for later. Chapter topics include: Discovering your unique personality and the way God has wired you Preparing for the adventure of youth ministry volunteer work Understanding the teenagers you work with Supporting parents as they raise their teenagers Working with other volunteers on your team Following leaders in your ministry and congregation You have a family. You have a full-time job. You have other commitments and responsibilities. Yet you understand the rewards and blessings of serving as a youth ministry volunteer. The Volunteer's Field Guide to Youth Ministry will become one of your favorite tools as you serve teenagers and help lead them toward a Jesus-centered life.
Download or read book The Volunteer s Back Pocket Guide to Events Retreats written by Johnny Scott and published by Group Publishing (Company). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You'll discover how to prepare yourself for all kinds of youth-oriented activities: summer camps, winter retreats, back-to-school celebrations, holiday banquets and parties, and every other creative event your youth pastor has added to the calendar.
Download or read book Before You Go written by Jack Hempfling and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does it happen that two people can be experiencing the same circumstances and conditions on their mission trip, and one person is having a great time, while the other is miserable as can be? And how can one short term mission team prepare so diligently for the practical ministry they'll be doing and be so ineffective as a group, while another team that seems less polished or skilled makes a huge mark in the culture they visit? Could it be that the heart preparation is more important than it is given credit for? In "Before You Go," experienced short term mission leader and trainer Jack Hempfling takes you on a 40 day journey that will bring you face to face with attitudes and issues that if not addressed, can make you or your group ineffective on the field. Get the most for your short term mission effort, finances, and preparation by getting your hearts ready. Walk with the Lord through this devotional and be equipped, informed, and made ready to joyfully pierce the darkness with all that you do. "I wish someone had given me a copy of Jack's book when I was first starting out" - Peter Warren, Director, Youth With a Mission, Denver "Wonderfully done ... I would highly recommend that every missionary candidate prayerfully use this devotional tool, and by so doing, avoid many difficulties, and increase their fruitfulness" - Tom Brazell, International Ministries Director, Elim Fellowship "Each day the devotionals keep getting better" - Don Richter, Director, Harvest Preparation International Ministries "I will require every future team member to purchase and read "Before You GO," before we go " - Pastor Carol Missik, Living Word Church and Operation Capital City
Download or read book Volunteer Vacations written by Bill McMillon and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the increasing number of people looking for ways to make a difference while on vacation, this fully updated edition is filled with in-depth information to get them ready for their adventure, including contacts, locations, costs, dates, project details, and profiles of 150 select organizations that run thousands of programs in the United States and around the world. Including new details about long-term projects and organizations specifically tailored for families, seniors, and people with disabilities, this definitive sourcebook provides a wealth of opportunities for anyone interested in taking a truly meaningful vacation and provides new anecdotes about all kinds of jobs and the positive impact they had on volunteers' lives.
