SHORT-TERM MISSIONS AND ITS LONG-TERM IMPACT

Short term missions has the potential to change lives, churches and nations. The ServantPrep
Seminar was developed by Mission Training International to prepare STM leaders as lifechanging team trainers. This 3-day program develops the skills needed to understand the
spiritual, personal, relational and cultural challenges and opportunities of STM experience. For
more information on this intense, experiential, Scripture-packed seminar, read the article "Train
That Team Well" in the current Short- Term Missions Today

Why Short-Term
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Short-term missions change lives! By giving people a hands-on experience, participants exercise their
faith, spiritual gifts and leadership skills.
Short-term missions create an outward focus and expands each participant's world view resulting in greater
prayer, greater giving and greater commitment to reaching others.
Short-term missions enable your church to establish an ongoing partnership with a mission field. A well
trained missions team can be a huge investment for your church and the missionaries you support.
Short-term missions provide strategic experiences for believers to hear the Lord's call to join the Harvest.
These experiences are often starting-gates for long-term involvement in ministry both locally and
globally.
Here are additional reasons for a church to send a short-term team.

Develops a contagious missions mindset in your congregation.

The participant's life is positively effected for eternity.

The sending church receives back a changed, excited, and more committed believer who is now more in
love with Jesus.

Move missions out of the committee and into the lives of people.

The participants become fervent and loyal prayer warriors on behalf of the host missionary and the host
ministry.

Establish a strategic, on-going partnership with a mission field.

Often the host ministry receives a gracious increase in financial support.

Often the participant returns to the field for further short-term work.

In some cases, the participant joins the host ministry or some other ministry as a career worker.