Synopses & Reviews
You work hard planning mission trips. Now make mission trips work for you and your group.Headed to inner-city America? Appalachia? A border shantytown? Overseas? Wherever your destination, the MISSION TRIP PREP KIT contains all you need to prepare your students for an unforgettable cross-cultural experience--and tools to debrief them after they've returned to their worlds.Use this kit--To get on-site impact as well as long-term spiritual change in your kids.Whether you're a mission-trip novice or a savvy traveler outside your comfort zones.Whether your group's trip is geared toward reaching others with the gospel or to disciple your young missionaries.In several sessions spread over a month or two--or in an intensive, two-day training session or retreat.IN THIS LEADER'S GUIDE: You'll receive not only the rationale, the how, and the logistics of planning and pulling off a missions trip, but--and this is the genius of the leader's guide--4 PRE-TRIP TEACHING SESSIONS that will help your students---Assess their EXPECTATIONS, their fears, their motivations.-Adjust their PERCEPTIONS of the culture they'll be working in.-Improve their emotional and spiritual STAMINA for living for a week or a month in a very different world from their own.-Practice the skills and ATTITUDES (teamwork, servanthood, Christ-centeredness) they'll need for a missions trip.And to make sure your trip's goals are accomplished and the benefits stick around for the long haul, you'll also receive 2 POST-TRIP SESSIONS that will help you DEBRIEF your students, ease them back into their own worlds, CELEBRATE with them, and make missions and ministry part of their EVERYDAY LIVES WITH JESUS.What's more, in these pre- andpost-trip teaching sessions are a variety of ACTIVITIES...processing points...creative PRAYER IDEAS...take-home applications...BIBLE STUDIES relevant to mission tripping...TALK OUTLINES that both instruct and inspire...and lots of sessions options you can tailor to your own HIGH SCHOOLERS OR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS.
Synopsis
Thousands of North American young people participate in short-term missions projects each year. While some churches have well-honed mission trips led by seasoned leaders, many teams are led by volunteers new not only to missions but to youth ministry. Unfortunately the high turnover among youth pastors and volunteers means that many missions groups may have inexperienced and less-than-enthusiastic leaders.
The Mission Trip Prep Kit is an easy-to-use resource for new or reluctant volunteers -- yet it is also rich in content and ideas to challenge seasoned professional youth workers who want to improve the quality of their group's preparation. The kit -- including 5 student books and a leader's guide -- is designed for both the individual church as well as student missions organizations. It offers several options for preparing either middle schoolers or high schoolers, and is appropriate as a complete training preparation for shorter projects (weekends to weeklong) or as the core of training for longer projects (several weeks to a whole summer).
Features of this flexible training course include:
-- Balances training for an outreach task with a discipleship experience
-- Addresses 4 key areas: attitudes, teamwork, servanthood, and Christ-centeredness
-- Offers practical advice on what to expect from veteran missions leaders
Synopsis
You work hard planning mission trips.
Now make mission trips work for you and your group.
Headed to inner-city America? Appalachia? A border shantytown? Overseas? Wherever your destination, the MISSION TRIP PREP KIT contains all you need to prepare your students for an unforgettable cross-cultural experience--and tools to debrief them after they've returned to their worlds.
Use this kit--
To get on-site impact as well as long-term spiritual change in your kids.
Whether you're a mission-trip novice or a savvy traveler outside your comfort zones.
Whether your group's trip is geared toward reaching others with the gospel or to disciple your young missionaries.
In several sessions spread over a month or two--or in an intensive, two-day training session or retreat.
IN THIS LEADER'S
Reading Group Guide
You'll receive not only the rationale, the how, and the logistics of planning and pulling off a missions trip, but--and this is the genius of the leader's guide--4 PRE-TRIP TEACHING SESSIONS that will help your students--
B7Assess their EXPECTATIONS, their fears, their motivations.
B7Adjust their PERCEPTIONS of the culture they'll be working in.
B7Improve their emotional and spiritual STAMINA for living for a week or a month in a very different world from their own.
B7Practice the skills and ATTITUDES (teamwork, servanthood, Christ-centeredness) they'll need for a missions trip.
And to make sure your trip's goals are accomplished and the benefits stick around for the long haul, you'll also receive 2 POST-TRIP SESSIONS that will help you DEBRIEF your students, ease them back into their own worlds, CELEBRATE with them, and make missions and ministrypart of their EVERYDAY LIVES WITH JESUS.
What's more, in these pre- and post-trip teaching sessions are a variety of ACTIVITIES...processing points...creative PRAYER IDEAS...take-home applications...BIBLE STUDIES relevant to mission tripping...TALK OUTLINES that both instruct and inspire...and lots of sessions options you can tailor to your own HIGH SCHOOLERS OR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS.