Resources
Great sources of articles about youth groups and short term missions:
a. Howard Culbertson's Articles - Dozens of pages of great links and articles! Training materials for people organizing and participating in short-term mission trips.
b. ShortTermMissions.com - Articles covering important STM issues.
c. Youth Specialties - Various articles about missions for youth.
d. Adventures in Missions’ Youthworker Missions Center - Articles about the value and planning of mission trips for youth groups, including a couple articles for parents.
e. Missionary Ventures - Some good articles re taking teams.
f. Legacy Ministry Resources - Varius Articles, sermons and other ministry resources.
Some specific topics and articles:
a. The place of missions trips in youth ministry
b. Team bonding and formation, managing conflict:
c. Training in cross cultural living and communication
d. Spiritual formation and setting their perspectives
e. Raising funds:
f. Training videos, books, conferences, on-line materials:
· Adventures in Missions’ Youthworker Missions Center and Missions Resources - Tons of great print resources and helpful articles.
· Go Prepared - Short-term mission training videos covering a wide range of subjects.
· Campus Crusade Mac Pac - Video based training for short-term mission team members and leaders.
· Team Leader Prep Pack - (Missionary Ventures)
· NVision - A powerful two day seminar designed to ignite vision and passion for the World Christian Movement. Can be used as pre-field short-term missions training for groups.
· National Short-Term Mission Conference - An annual conference (usually in January) designed to train, equip, and mobilize teams for short-term missions.
· Stem Publishing - Great books and resources on short term missions.
· MissionResources.com - Lots of print resources for preparing yourself, your leaders, your team.
· William Carey Library - Books on short term missions
g. Check-lists and forms
h. Re- entry and follow through!
