All you need to know to plan a safe and hassle-free mission trip. This indispensable guide covers such common-sense topics as customs, currency, security, immunizations, and fund-raising.
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I know of no better book for anyone thinking about being a volunteer, overseas or at home. -- Jim Reapson, Editor at Large of Evangelical Missions Quarterly
Successful Mission Teams has become the foundational primer for nearly 100 Free Methodist Missions teams each year. It has remained at the top of our reading list for team orientation for the past two years. The information is practical, born from experience, based in servanthood, and the best common sense material on team ministry we have found. Those who don't read Successful Mission Teams will spend more time on survival than on ministry. -- Dr. Larry Houck; General Director, Free Methodist World Missions (1999)
This book should have been titled, THE Comprehensive Guide for Trips. It is an outstanding resource for anyone going or sending people on a missions trip, and it is just as practical for planning any journey. The ideas for a seven-session mission trip workshop include spiritual and practical assignments. Highly recommended. -- Church Libraries Winter 2000
Successful Mission Teams has become the foundational primer for nearly 100 Free Methodist Missions teams each year. It has remained at the top of our reading list for team orientation for the past two years. The information is practical, born from experience, based in servanthood, and the best common sense material on team ministry we have found. Those who don't read Successful Mission Teams will spend more time on survival than on ministry. -- Dr. Larry Houck; General Director, Free Methodist World Missions (1999)
This book should have been titled, THE Comprehensive Guide for Trips. It is an outstanding resource for anyone going or sending people on a missions trip, and it is just as practical for planning any journey. The ideas for a seven-session mission trip workshop include spiritual and practical assignments. Highly recommended. -- Church Libraries Winter 2000
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If you want to go on a mission team, but don't know where to start, you'll find common sense advice in Successful Mission Teams. From how to choose a sending organization to how to pack, tip, stay healthy,or speak through a translator, Successful Mission Teams provides easy-to-follow guidelines for the volunteer. The practical advice given in Successful Mission Teams enables volunteers to go to their field of service, prepared and able to focus on ministry rather than survival.
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A must for first time missionaries!,
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Martha has condensed into a small 228 page book all the essential information needed for one to fulfill his or her call to God's service. The first two chapters prepare you both spiritually and logistically for the trip. Chapter three helps you travel and survive giving tips on security, food choice and health. Chapter four helps the reader understand the teamwork needed and how to get things done in other cultures. The book closes with help returning home and a specific chapter on Disaster Assistance. Should be required reading for all interested in mission work.
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It's an OK book, however not what I was looking for. Covers a lot of the practical aspects of planning a mission trip which is important.
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Good Volunteer STM book,
This review is from: Successful Mission Teams: A Guide for Volunteers (Paperback)
Successful Mission Teams: A Guide for Volunteers by Martha Van Cise
This a a good volunteer Short Term Mission (STM) book. The last 3 chapters about disasters at home - earthquakes, flooding etc. are unique in the STM books i have read. Very helpful length chapters (28 chapter i think!) and covers many topics written by an experienced missionary with good case examples / stories / anecdotes. How not to do it! The attitudes of some who have supposedly come to serve, yet whine and whinge! Educational and informative and whilst any STM book is a good investment any book that covers more items than less is a better investment with richer dividends in the realm of practical working. Another STM book, Mission Preparation Training - How to prepare for your short-term mission trip more spiritual orinetated about knowing where to go, seeking God's will, evangelism, teaching and power for ministry, but the ebst STM book i have read is How to Plan, Prepare and Successfully Complete Your Short-Term Mission - For Volunteers, Churches, Independent STM Teams and Mission Organisations. The ... and those Planning a Christian Gap Year T
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