"This is the best tool I've seen for preparing individuals for the entire short-term mission experience. The topics covered prepare the soil of one's heart to allow the transformation process to begin. Don't let a team leave without working through it!" (Bennie Ingraham, Short-Term Mission Coordinator, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, and Cochair, National Short-Term Mission Conference )
"Tim Dearborn is extraordinarily wise. This workbook is an outstanding guide to help all Christians think more thoroughly about our mission in the world--wherever and however we serve. The questions in this manual are useful for each of us personally, for discussion groups, for congregations. They challenge our assumptions, upset our provincialisms, widen our horizons and deepen our visions. Most of all, this guide ushers us into following Jesus more faithfully--globally and locally." (Dr. Marva Dawn, author of How Shall We Worship? )
"This workbook is really a complete resource kit to help the short-term ministry team prepare themselves culturally and spiritually for their service. It provides just what is needed (and what we have lacked)--a program of preparation and reflection that will help turn the short-term ministry into preparation for a lifetime of service. Don't leave home without it." (Bill Dyrness, author of Changing the Mind of Missions )
" 'Mission preparation' is a spiritually invigorating, powerfully pragmatic exposure to effective global ministry. Captured passions turn into lifelong commitments; resources are maximized toward relevant actions. Tim is sharing a lifetime of wisdom. Don't leave home without it." (Honorable Robert A. Seiple, U.S. Special Ambassador for Religious Freedom (retired), and Founder and President, Institute for Global Engagement )
"The best tool to help prepare a person for the transformation process that takes place as a result of a short-term mission experience. This book does so much more than preparing a team to go. Tim helps the team integrate their on-field experiences with their lives back home." (Bennie Ingraham, Short-Term Mission Coordinator, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, and Cochair, National Short-Term Mission Conference )
"Tim Dearborn's very helpful workbook draws on over twenty-five years of experience in enabling the Western church to relate in partnership for mission with the church and mission groups in the non-Western world. The workbook focuses on the key issue in short-term missions: the challenge of crossing into a different culture. It leads the short-term mission aspirant through a practical and theoretically rigorous learning process. It enables the short-term mission team member to discern the richness of the gospel as experienced and lived out by people of many cultures. I commend this book warmly." (Dr. Vinay Samuel, Founder, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies )
