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Re-Imagining Short-Term Missions

In this podcast we take an honest look at short-term mission practices, and talk frankly about unhelpful models even as we dream of healthy alternatives. In this podcast we look critically at the top-down, one-way, unbalanced relationship dynamics between sending organizations and the communities that receive their teams. Instead, understanding that all churches in every culture are broken in some way, we try to re-imagine how churches in cross-cultural partnership can serve one another in mutuality service. The essential aim of this podcast is to consider new ways for Christ-followers in every part of the world to collaborate, working together to meet the world's deep needs.

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Re-Imagining Short-Term Missions

Alternatives to short-term missions: Stories of Practical Re-Imagination with Dr. Miriam Adeney

February 14, 2023 • Forrest Inslee, MIriam Adeney • Season 1 • Episode 3

Are short-term mission trips really the best way to invest a church’s resources? If sending churches have come to rely on mission trips as a way to encourage personal growth for those being sent, what are alternative ways to achieve those goals that are less costly and closer to home? If the current models of short-term missions aren’t working, then what SHOULD we be doing?

In this episode, Forrest sits down with Dr. Miriam Adeney, and expert in missions and cross-cultural ministry and the author of many books on the subjects. In her view, the challenge of re-imagining short term missions is a matter of re-directing the good motives that churches have for sending team; its also about collaborating with all members of the global church to cocreate better ways for churches in every part of the world to deploy their respective strengths to make disciples of all nations.

Dr. Adeney at Regent College, and Seattle Pacific University (you’ll find her book list on this site)

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