Serving with Eyes Wide Open

Author: David A. Livermore
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441241132
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
Short-term mission trips are great ways to impact the kingdom. Yet they can lack effectiveness because of mistakes or naiveté on the part of participants. In this insightful and timely book, David A. Livermore calls us to serve with our eyes open to global and cultural realities so we can become more effective cross-cultural ministers. Serving with Eyes Wide Open is a must-have book for anyone doing a short-term mission or service project, whether domestic or overseas. Foreword by Paul Borthwick.

Cultural Intelligence

Author: David A. Livermore
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 0801035899
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
An intercultural ministry expert demonstrates the necessity of Cultural Intelligence for effectively serving an increasingly diverse church and world.

Leading with Cultural Intelligence

Author: David A. Livermore
Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association
ISBN: 0814414877
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
What is CQ? And why do leaders need it in our increasingly connected world?

What Can I Do?

Author: David Livermore
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310589606
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
While “missions” used to be the territory of experts and missionary professionals, globalization has made the issues and needs of our world accessible to average Americans. Many American Christians feel overwhelmed by the scope of the brokenness in the world and conclude all they can do is go on with their lives. Others respond by giving and praying, and still others want to do more. What Can I Do shows that global mission is something we all can be part of in tangible ways. And while that might include going on a short term mission trip or providing financial support, there are many more ongoing and holistic forms of engagement. This book helps readers see that the roles they already have—business leader, scientist, teacher, student, parent, or neighbor—can provide ways to engage in global mission. Mission is what we were created to do. It includes evangelistically calling people to follow Jesus wherever we go, whatever we do. But it’s more than that. This book will help us explore the way our ordinary, everyday tasks of work and life can be part of God’s mission to heal a broken world.

The Essential Guide to the Short Term Mission Trip

Author: David C. Forward
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 9780802425263
Category : Short-term missions
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
David Forward helps prepare leaders and members of the team for their experience as volunteers for the cause of Christ.

Mack Leeann's Guide to Short-Term Missions

Author: J. Mack Stiles
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 9780830822690
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
How can you prepare for a short-term missions trip? What are the hazards to avoid and the opportunities to embrace? Veteran trip leaders Mack and Leeann Stiles offer practical advice, hard-won lessons, and hilarious stories to help you know what to expect as you get ready to see God in action in new ways.

Short-Term Missions Workbook

Author: Tim Dearborn
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830873961
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
Going on a short-term missions trip can be a life-transforming experience, but it can also involve weeks of physical and spiritual challenges. In this revised and expanded ten-week course, you will find a concise summary of crosscultural principles, help in facing spiritual warfare, tips on avoiding a tourist mentality, spiritual preparation through individual or group Bible study, and discussion and reflection questions.

Before You Go

Author:
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1613798830
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description

Being White

Author: Paula Harris
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458749738
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
What does it mean to be white? In our culture, whites have not always used their power and privilege responsibly. As a result, those from other racial and ethnic backgrounds may respond to you differently or suspiciously simply because of your whiteness. You may feel ambivalent about your own identity as a white person. Perhaps you have been frustrated when a friend of another ethnicity shakes his head and tells you, ''You just don't get it because you're white.'' How can whites overcome the mistakes of the past? How can they build authentic relationships with people from other backgrounds? In this groundbreaking book, Paula Harris and Doug Schaupp present a Christian model of what it means to be white. They wrestle through the history of how those in the majority have oppressed minority cultures, but they also show that whites have their own cultural and ethnic identity with its own distinctive traits and contributions. They demonstrate that white people have a key role to play in the work of racial reconciliation and the forging of a more just society. Filled with real-life stories, life-transforming insights and practical guidance, this book is for any white who is aware of racial inequality but has wondered, So what do I do? Discover here a vision for just communities where whites can use their influence to empower those of other ethnicities.

Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions

Author: Steve Corbett
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802490255
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation with over 300,000 copies in print. This stand-alone resource applies the principles of that book specifically to short-term missions. Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions: Participant’s Guide aims to train and debrief team members, preparing them to do short-term missions as effectively as possible. To do this, it provides practical examples and guidelines for team members, and it creates interaction and reflection opportunities through questions and journaling. With eight units, six of which are built around free online video content, this book equips teams to avoid harming materially poor communities and to translate their experience into lasting and mutual engagement with missions and poverty alleviation. In conjunction with the separately available Leader’s Guide, it is an ideal resource for churches, Christian colleges, mission agencies, and missionaries.