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The Short-Term Mission Leaders’ Conference (STMLC) is an annual training event open to churches, schools, agencies & individuals. It is designed to impact team members, leaders, and those who train, organize, or supervise Christian short-term mission trips as well as those who receive them. If you want to learn to lead short-term mission teams with [...]

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Change lives before, during and after a short-term mission. The Next Mile: A Coach’s Guide is designed to encourage and equip pastors and lay leaders to follow-through with returning short-term missionaries in a meaningful way. The goal is to see short-termers experience lasting change by helping them determine God’s call on their lives and how [...]

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Are you going on a mission trip or recently back from one? Sign up for Next Mile’s free twelve-part E-Zine. Designed especially for those recently returning from a short-term mission experience, The Next Mile E-Zine will help you process your short-term mission experience and keep the flame alive! You will learn how to share your [...]

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Make your short-term mission efforts more effective with practical insights, innovation, and inspiration gained at The National Short-Term Missions Conference (NSTMC) in sunny Tucson Jan. 26-28, 2012 at Casas Church. This gathering is sponsored by the Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission organization. Featured speakers include Dr. Ron Blue and Glenn Schwartz among several others. [...]

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Don’t miss the blessing they bring. Remember, you were once on your first short term mission! Help them get their hearts ready for the cultural and spiritual challenges they will face, so that they go with humility, team unity, and servants’ hearts. “Before You Go” a 40-day devotional to prepare short term missionaries by Jack [...]

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Have you ever wondered if your church or ministry should send a short-term mission (STM) team?  With all the needs and all the opportunities, how do you know where to go and what to do? Recognizing that many churches and ministries wrestle with determining which STMs to promote and move forward with, DELTA Ministries International [...]

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An analysis of 85,000 searches made on   http://www.ShortTermMissions.com   this past Spring reveals that Kenya and Uganda dropped out of the high popularity position which they enjoyed over the past several years. Mexico, which has solidly been in second place for years, is no longer in the top ten most popular countries for mission [...]

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Here’s a new tool to help churches and ministries discern if they should send a short-term mission team. Have you ever wondered if your church or ministry should send a short-term mission (STM) team? With all the needs and all the opportunities, how do you know where to go and what to do? Recognizing that [...]

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Make your short-term mission efforts more effective with practical insights, innovation, and inspiration gained at The National Short-Term Missions Conference (NSTMC) in sunny Tucson Jan. 26-28, 2012 at Casas Church. This gathering is sponsored by the Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission organization. Register before Nov. 30 to save. Featured speakers include Dr. Ron Blue [...]

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The Hub is a free monthly Ezine designed to serve as a gathering place for short-term mission articles, resources, tools and opportunities.  The goal is to equip churches, ministries and individuals to conduct responsible short-term missions that glorify God.  Read the latest issue here:   http://p0.vresp.com/kLhTxS   Submit ideas for content by emailing thehubdeltaministriescom

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What if there was a resource that enabled your short-term mission teams to become more effective? Wouldn’t it be great to have a tool that helped you multiply and equip your leaders for short-term missions? DELTA’s Team Leader Training will give your leaders practical, hands-on instruction on building character, team unity, bridges to cross cultures, [...]

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Here’s a Brigada participant developing a project that will use a web platform specifically designed for missionaries that links to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and allows donors to submit contributions.   http://www.ArkPages.com   Seems to offer a lot of promise. (Thanks Bryon!)

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Lately, I seem to have come across a number of these short missions courses. Some are aligned with Perspectives. Read more about Perspectives at…   http://www.perspectives.org   Of course, it might just be the granddaddy of them all. It’s about 15 weeks in length, available as an intensive course of 1 week or 3 weeks [...]

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