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Condensed from chapter 9 of a soon-to-be-published Introduction to Missions textbook, Discovering Mission, by Chuck Gailey and Howard Culbertson.
Roger Peterson, long-time head of the Fellowship of Short-Term Mission Leaders, has calculated that 1.6 million North Americans participate each year in various types of short-term mission. Of that 1.6 million, about one third are doing “domestic” trips. Of the remaining two-thirds, about one-third of them go to Mexico. Other estimates of short-term participants range as high as four million North Americans with a total annual investment of more than four billion U.S. dollars. In terms of numbers, getting people to do short-term mission has been hugely successful. Of course, raw numbers of participants and money spent do not tell everything. There is more to short-term mission than numerical totals.
- Is the activity of mission volunteers actually moving toward the fulfillment of the Great Commission or is it, in the words of Macbeth, “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”?
- In what ways do career missionary teams see those volunteers as a burden? In what ways do they see them as a blessing?
- Which specific long-term goals can short term mission be helpful in accomplishing?
- What are positive and negative long-term effects on participants and sponsoring churches?
- In purely accounting terms, could money spent on travel and food and lodging be better spent by sending it straight to the mission field?
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Periodical TitleGlobal Missions Conference Proceedings
Periodical Year2007
Peer Reviewed?No
Place of PublicationKansas City, Missouri
Pages13
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