Facilitating the Mission

Short Term Trips Part Three

One of the most important pieces of the short-term mission trip is connecting Christians in the country you're visiting to short term trip team members from America. While evangelism, outreach and other ministry is important, the best way for disciples to grow on these trips is to create situations and circumstances where short-term missionaries bond with their international brothers and sisters.

This is a true taste of heaven. This is foreshadowing of what life in the Kingdom will be like when we are fully present with the Lord in His Everlasting Kingdom.

In this podcast, in a sidebar conversation, we talk about the political history of Cambodia and transformation taking place through men and women living the gospel.

• Khmer Rouge
• Setan Lee
• TransformAsia (Formerly Kampuchea for Christ)
• The Killing Fields
• First They Killed my Father on Netflix

STT Parts One and Two

• Short Term Trips Podcast Part 1
• Short Term Trips Podcast Part 2

Short Term Trips Part Two

Part two of our Short-term Trips series is the first half of a conversation about the stories and lessons that have come out of short-term mission trips Jeff and Bryon have been a part of.

The greatest lessons we can learn come don't come from a text book (although missions texts are full of great stories, theology and processes), they come from what we learn through personal experience and trip debriefs.

Part 1

Team Covenant

Short Term Trips

In this podcast, we have a no-nonsense discussion about short-term mission trips, trip goals, vetting mission trip participants, and the importance of supporting the goals of long-term missionaries on the field.

If the trip purpose loses its focus and individual trip participants become the center of attention, the trip fails. One tool mentioned in this podcast is the Team Covenant. Read more about it and download a copy for yourself here.

Other topics that come up that you can read more about are Short-Term Mission Teams that are Sent Well and Short term mission trips–Creating and Cultivating a Pilgrim-mindset.

Business as Missions Part Three

This is the third part of a discussion about Business as Mission (BAM). Listen to the beginning of this discussion in part two in our series here. For part one, click here.

We pick it up in this episode with Jeff Jackson explaining how the Business as Missions model is being worked out in the planning phases of a new missionary endeavor. Because this is a non-traditional model for missions, it forces each step of the planning process to be filtered through scripture.

Jeff also mentions these great resources:

»Perspectives

»Lausanne Movement

»businessasmission.com - great content and helpful links for anyone interested in world missions

»Mats Tunehag - speaker at Lausanne Global Leadership Forum
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Business as Missions Part Two

In this episode, Jeff Jackson continues talking through the Business as Missions (BAM) model. 

 

Listen to part one here.

Business as Missions

There are different models of missions emerging as people think through how to reach the Nations for the Glory of God. In this episode, Jeff Jackson introduces a model for missions known as Business as Missions or BAM. Jeff discusses the practical and theological implications of this approach to missions.

Maintenance Debrief part two

The Maintenance Debrief has two main goals: Maintenance Debriefing goals
     1. To CONFIRM to the missionary that he or she is exactly where God wants them to be at this time in their lives and that He is pleased with them.
     2. To help them CALIBRATE the various components of their lives, for their well-being and the health of the people and ministry God has called them to.

In this podcast, Jeff Jackson unpacks the components of the Maintenance Debrief. Those that care for missionaries serving abroad need to make sure that the Maintenance Debrief is a regular part of a missionary's ongoing spiritual development and care. We've included a downloadable version of the Maintenance Debrief for those who care for missionaries in your church. Click the button below.

Download the Maintenance Debrief PDF

Maintenance Debrief

This edition of Facilitating the Mission carries the conversation about the On Field Care Visit discussed in our previous podcast into greater detail and purpose. In this episode, Jeff unpacks the purpose of the Maintenance Debrief. We learn that it has a two-fold purpose: confirmation and calibration.

On-field Care Visits

Do the missionaries your church has sent to the field know that they're as much of a priority as anyone else in your church? They need to know they are. God pays attention to the care missionaries get from the leaders of their home churches. That's why the on-field care visit from a pastor or elder (or both) are so important. We need to be intentional about budgeting and planning for this.

But before we get into the main content of this podcast, Jeff explains why and where he curates the missionary content he publishes on Facebook and Twitter.

Here are some of the blogs and websites he mentions in the first segment of this episode:

» A Life Overseas
» Parakletos.org
» Velvet Ashes
» Small Town Laowai
» Rocky Re-entry

During the segment about on field visits, Jeff mentions his pastor who came and visited him and his family while they church planted in the Philippines. Pat Kenney now serves with Poimen Ministries and continues serves as a pastor to pastors. Learn more about Poimen Ministries here: http://www.poimenministries.com/

Here's a link to the newsletter to church leaders referenced in this podcast: CLICK HERE 

Photo by Cole Hutson on Unsplash

Conflict Resolution Part Two

In part two of our discussion about conflict resolution, we discuss some helpful startegies for resolving and - when necessary - embracing conflict in a biblical way.

Here are a few resources referred to in this podcast:

» Conflict Resolution Part One

» Cross Cultural Conflict by Duane Elmer

» Dr Karl Benzio of Lighthouse Network