Short Term Missions long term results
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Short Term Missions / long term transformation
No Mission worth taking is really “short term”
Seeking long term transformationin a short term world
The Long View
The NEW short term missions are as much about learning as teaching. They are as much about receiving as giving. They are as much about what happens after we get home as what happens during the time we are there, and as much about transformation occurring in our own hearts, as in those whom we serve.
The truth is most churches are trying to develop exactly this kind of short term missions. The trips themselves may be short, but we want their effect to be lasting: producing lasting friendships, lasting benefits to the people whom we serve and lasting transformation in our own lives.
STM Challenge
Missions Agencies are not growing at a commensurate rate.
Money is being diverted from Long Term Missions.
Studies show little transformation occurring Americans tithing decreasing Is our helping hurting
Solutions
Make Prayer your highest priority Re-focus in two areas; 1.) STM as a Discipleship & Spiritual Formation training
platform for the goers2.) Glocal Holistic Partnerships. Unleash all of God assets through a greater “inward
focus” - for a greater “outward reach” Create Critical Mass for transforming hearts “out
there”, is in direct proportions to your ability to transform hearts “right here” - in the pews of the American church.
Benefits
STM becomes the spring board that transforms your church for the nations.
“Eternal vision” lifestyle becomes dominate. Prayer, Worship, Fasting, Sacrifice, Service,
and Tithing increases. All of God’s assets are unleashed for His
Kingdom purposes – Glocally.
1949 – Methodist Missions Board
1958 – Wheaton College
1960 – OM & YWAM
1963 – GEM
1966 – Nazarene University
1972 - Taylor University
1980 – Adventures in Missions
History of STM
Houston - we have a problem!
Obedience to the great commission has more consistently been poisoned by affluence than by anything else. - Ralph Winter
Percent who tithe
Professing Christians: 5%
Professing Born Again: 9%
Professing Evangelicals: 24%
The percent tithed
1933 - tithing 3.3%
2005 - tithing 2.58%
Currently - 2%
98% stays here with the American church
168 Billion Goal
64 Billion could eliminate most extreme global poverty for 1 billion people
6 billion primary ed. 9 billion clean water to
most of the worlds poor 13 billion basic health &
nutrition globally
705 Billion recreation 179 Billion teen ager 65 billion jewelry 58billion lottery tickets 31 billion pets 13 billion cosmetic
surgery 5 billion total oversea
Case study: Honduras 1998 “Mitch”
Building Project - CIOD (Christian Int. Dev. Org.)
$2 mil. + reconstruction most used for building 1,082 new homes
31 STM teams each spent $30,000 air, lodging, local expenses
Each team built one house normal cost $2,000 (if STM not involved)
Transformation
Change?: Prayer, volunteering, financial giving, interest in poor countries
Self appraisal: 16% significant, 45% slight positive, 40% no change
Self appraisal: financial giving to CIDO; 60% significantly increase
Triangulate: CIDO 3 year records 75% no donations (church same)
STM Mountain Top Experience
Success Metric?
Counter attack plan?
Training priorities?
Overlooked Red Zone
Red Zone
Red Zone Strategies
Create Community Prepare for counter attack Intentional post training Continued service engagement Post Life Assessment Testing Road map – resource them Enlist Families
Go with the end in mind
I went, I witnessed, next?
I’m pleasing God Comfort centric Savior complex Read scripture (doing) Pre-trip training
Transformation is not a destination
Pleasing to God Take up my Cross Feet washing Live scripture (being) Post trip training
STM Relief vs. Development
Relief vs. Development
Relief Temporary Give a fish Good Samaritan Emergency room Infant Child
Development Long Term/exit strategy Teach fish farming Parable of Talents Physical Therapy Young adult
Holistic Partnerships
Don’t rush it
We can help the professionals
Resource their gifting & long term commitment to the community
We work under their authority - impose don’t impart.
World Vision
Global Resources Network
We don’t have to be the NGO
We get to focus on discipleship
We Insure we, do no harm
We build greater capacity
Collaboration – Work as the body for the Kingdom
Benefits of Cross Cultural exposure
They need me I can fix their problem Their poor I can make a difference Their helpless
I need them My problems revealed My poverty reviled They changed me Trading places?
Most overlooked Pre-trip items
Spiritual Warfare Team Covenant Cross Cultural
exposure Christian Life
Assessment tool Who’s the teacher?
Create spiritual disequilibrium
Prayer covering-911 How are they deceived Commit to post trip
community Train on, what you’ll
train on, in country and when you return
Steve Roa
951-662-2776 [email protected] 1hr Outreach consultation free – AACWM STM Gulu, Uganda W.V. Partnership Website dev. Wes Kriesel 909-921-4338 [email protected] Effective Engagement in STM: Robert Priest