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Getting excited about sending out short-term teams is easy. A short-term mission experience is, perhaps, one of the most effective ways...

Most churches channel their efforts into cross-cultural missions through short-term trips, enabling church members to experience the...

Spending nine weeks in the Middle East during the summer of 1994 challenged my worldview, shaped my identity, and redirected my life’s...

As the term is commonly used, missionaries are those who are sent to make disciples in places that are usually geographically and...

If you’re considering planning a virtual short-term trip, here are some things you might consider as you plan and prepare.

We have been involved in global missions for over twenty-two years now. For most of those years, we have served in Europe, though the...

Are you prepared for a crisis? As our world becomes more dangerous, what is the riskiest thing your church’s mission leaders can do? The...

Short-term missions provides the context through which the church can prepare and propel future missionaries for a lifetime of service

As you finish up your short-term trips, a valuable step to take can be to evaluate the trip hosts. It’s likely that those to whom you are...

In our article series “Redeeming Short-Term Trips,” we lay out some principles for doing short-term trips with intelligence and...

As a church planter in the States during the 90s, and globally since 2001, we have used short-term teams as an important part of our...

If your church takes family ministry seriously (and I’m sure you do if you’re reading this article!), then you’ve likely had...

Check out the new book from Upstream entitled, "Listen: How to Make the Most of Your Short-term Mission Trip" by the Upstream Collective.

Short-term trips have gotten a bit of a bad rap in recent years. Can we redeem a method of ministry to make it do more good than harm?

Here are some questions to ask as you develop programs in this transition phase from Global Christians to US Senders or Potential Goers.

Global Christians understand that they have to orient their life around God’s mission of bringing the Gospel to those who have not heard it.

While it's never fun to consider how to respond to crises, it's important to learn how to equip your short-term teams for such occasions.

What God impressed upon me the most on the Jet Set trip was how we are to love and care for our sent ones.