By the year 2000, nearly three-fourths of all missions work will be done by "short termers", from teens to retirees. Now--in this guide to recruiting and planni

Going on a short-term missions trip can be a life-transforming experience, but it can also involve weeks of physical and spiritual challenges. In this revised a

Effective Engagement in Short-term Missions represents the single most ambitious effort to date to understand and improve upon patterns of ministry in STM. In s

Brian Howell provides an anthropology of short-term mission (STM) among American Christians. Providing a history of STM along with an ethnographic case study of

Mission trips have become a staple in youth ministries across the United States. The problem is many mission trips remain disconnected from the rest of a congre