Resources
International Teams Resources
Would you love to help plan a short term mission team but don’t know where to start?
Here is a step by step guide to planning a short term team for your church, which we hope will help you explore and dream about getting your church engaged in missions and engaged in helping the poor and oppressed.
This is a 13-page booklet which is available freely from the International Teams office or you can download and print it below.
This booklet is full of basic tips in the planning of a short-term mission trip. Themes covered include planning timeline, trip determining, publicity, team selection, team training, church involvement, mission projects and re-entry and follow through. This booklet is a useful first step in the planning of your STM trip.
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Next Mile Materials for Short Term Missions
We sell Next Mile Materials for Short Term Mission Trips. This curriculum offers practical tools to enable leaders to plan, conduct and follow-through with short-term mission trips for long-term impact.
Order the following resources online from us here!
The Next Mile Spiritual Journal – $7.50
A Spiritual Journal designed for your short-term mission experience. The journal provides key scriptures for 14 day before, on-field and 7 days after your short-term mission. It also shares the value of journaling and effective journaling techniques.
The Next Mile Goer Guide – All-Age Edition – $9.60
The Next Mile Goer Guide All-Age Edition is for use in multi-generation teams. Included in the Goer Guide is a Spiritual Journal with daily Bible readings and space to journal, record thoughts from Scripture, and write prayer requests. This helpful tool begins 14 days before departure and continues for 7 days after the conclusion of a Short-Term trip.
The Next Mile Goer Guide – Youth Edition – $9.60
The Next Mile Goer Guide Youth Edition is designed for ages 13-19. Included in the Goer Guide is a Spiritual Journal with daily Bible readings and space to journal, record thoughts from Scripture, and write prayer requests. This helpful tool begins 14 days before departure and continues for 7 days after the conclusion of a Short-Term trip.
The Next Mile Leader Kit – $117.00
This comprehensive tool enables Short-Term team leaders to plan and conduct Short-Term Mission trips for long-term impact. The kit contains all the resources needed for churches and Team Leaders to successfully lead a Short-Term Team.
The Leader Kit includes:
- Leader Guide (with Resource CD and Road Map*);
- Goer Guide Youth Edition (including Mentor Packet);
- Goer Guide All-Age Edition (including Mentor Packet); and
- Mile Post Devotional.
*The Resource CD contains sample forms (customisable), sample meetings, activities, sample bulletin inserts, posters, PowerPoint presentation sample for reporting home, evaluation and assessment tools and much more. Nearly 80 resources for Team Leaders. The Road Map Poster is a colourful “at-a-glance” poster with major bench marks along the journey.
The Next Mile Post Devotional – $8.00
The Mile Post Devotional provides 52 self-paced devotionals contributed by multiple mission leaders designed to disciple your Short-termers after their mission experience. This resource contains a wide variety of styles for daily study and a broad range of topics relating to Christian lifestyle and issues faced when returning home. This resource can compliment any existing short-term mission program.
Order the above resources online here! OR contact us with any enquiries or to order by phone/email.
