Book "Effective Engagement In Short-Term Missions (EMS 16)" by Robert J. Priest at MissionBooks.org, from William Carey Publishing

This book represents the single most ambitious effort to date to understand and improve upon patterns of ministry in short term missions (STM). In six sections, the authors explore topics such as the links between STM and older patterns of long-term missions; engagement with people of other cultures; international partnerships; specialized ministries such as medical missions; legal and financial liabilities and, finally, the impact of STM on participants.

The goal of Effective Engagement in Short-term Missions is to improve the ways in which STM is carried out and to develop the understandings needed on the part of all who engage in the ministry. In short, this book attempts to provide a knowledge base for those who provide leadership within the STM movement. Among the authors are anthropologists, sociologists, missiologists, and representatives of various other fields, such as education, law, business, and medicine. Six authors are women. Two are Chinese, one Korean, and one Peruvian.

The authors in this book consistently adopt an approach which is positive and constructive. While there are criticisms in the book, these criticisms are not directed against STM per se, but against particular ways of doing STM. Youth pastors, mission pastors, lay leaders, college and seminary students, and missiologists will all find information that is helpful and relevant to their concerns.

Evangelical Missiological Society (EMS)- Book 16

INTRODUCTION

CONTRIBUTORS

PART I CONNECTING WITH LONG-TERM MISSIONS

1. SHORT-TERM MISSIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF MISSIONS, INC. by A. Scott Moreau

2. EVALUATING SHORT-TERM MISSIONS: MISSIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS by Alex G. Smith

3. COMPLEMENTARY ASPECTS OF SHORT-TERM MISSIONS AND LONG-TERM MISSIONS: CASE STUDIES FOR A WIN-WIN SITUATION by Enoch Wan and Geoffrey Hartt

PART II ENCOUNTERING SOCIAL OTHERS

4. AVOIDING THE UGLY MISSIONARY: ANTHROPOLOGY AND SHORT-TERM MISSIONS by Steven J. Ybarrola

5. THE MYTH OF THE BLANK SLATE: A CHECK LIST FOR SHORT-TERM MISSIONS by Miriam Adeney

6. THE MINDFUL MISSIONER by Richard Slimbach

PART III FORGING GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS

7. ON THE RHETORIC OF SHORT-TERM MISSIONS APPEALS, WITH SOME PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR TEAM LEADERS by Edwin Zehner

8. FRIENDSHIP IS FOREVER: CONGREGATION-TO-CONGREGATION RELATIONSHIPS by C. M. Brown

9. URBAN CHURCH RESOURCES FOR SHORT-TERM MISSION by Chin T. Wang (John)

10. WOMEN AS RESOURCE BROKERS: STM TRIPS, SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL TIES, AND MUTUAL RESOURCE BENEFITS by Kersten Bayt Priest

11. SHORT-TERM MISSIONS ARE BIGGER THAN YOU THINK: MISSIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GLOCAL CHURCH by Rolando W. Cuellar

PART IV CARRYING OUT SPECIALIZED MINISTRIES

12. SHORT-TERM MEDICAL MISSIONS: A PRACTITIONER’S PERSPECTIVE ON EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES by Daniel W. O’Neill, MD

13. CHILDREN AT RISK IN SHORT-TERM MISSIONAL ENGAGEMENT by Greg W. Burch

14. MISSIONAL BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS: THE STRATEGIC AND PRACTICAL USE OF BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS AS EMPOWERED PARTNERS IN SHORT-TERM MISSIONS by Mark Russell

PART V CONSIDERING LEGAL AND LIABILITY ISSUES IN SHORT-TERM MISSIONS

15. SHORT-TERM MISSIONS AND THE LAW: LESSONS FROM CANADA by Charles A. Cook

16. SHORT-TERM MISSIONS: AVOIDING LIABILITY PITFALLS by Michelle A. Walker-Adams and Scott Ross

PART VI EVALUATING AND IMPROVING THE IMPACT OF STM ON PARTICIPANTS

17. LESSONS FROM THE SAPLING: REVIEW OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ON SHORT-TERM MISSIONS by Kurt Alan Ver Beek

18. RESEARCHING SHORT-TERM MISSIONS AND PATERNALISM by Kyeong Sook Park

19. THE IMPACT OF URBAN SHORT-TERM PROJECTS ON THE SOCIAL CONNECTIONS OF EVANGELICAL COLLEGE STUDENTS by Rick Richardson

20. STUDENT SOJOURNERS AND SPIRITUAL FORMATION: UNDERSTANDING THE INTERSECTION OF CROSS-CULTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND SPIRITUAL DISORIENTATION by Murray S. Decker

21. FROM “WHATEVER” TO WHEREVER: ENHANCING FAITH FORMATION IN YOUNG ADULTS THROUGH SHORT-TERM MISSIONS by Fran Blomberg

22. SUPERVISORS FOR SHORT-TERM MISSION EXPERIENCES: THINKING ABOUT SELECTION by Vicki Gascho