Equipped for Adventure is a guide for churches wanting to establish a short-term missions ministry. This book is unique in that it goes beyond simply equipping the individual for short-term missions by helping the church develop a short-term missions ministry. After briefly discussing philosophies and considerations for developing a missional ministry, the author provides detailed steps for planning, participating, and following up on mission trips. Since there are more details to international travel, the author primarily focuses on international missions trips.

Two-time Masters World Champion surfer Bear Woznick shares his pulse-pounding stories of ocean rescues, collapsing parachutes, and deadly encounters with sharks as a way to challenge you to go deeper with God and live a life of virtue. Bear is living proof that when people abandon themselves to God's providence, they become anything but soft, pastel versions of themselves. Rather, they discover the boldest, most rewarding way to live. Indeed, if you're eager to pursue God's will for your life, if you're tired of being spoon-fed trite messages about how you just need to be "nicer," this book is for you. In these inspiring pages, Bear shows you how to answer that call deep inside telling you that you were meant for more. He reveals how to live the bold and daring life Christ is challenging you to live. He'll coach you on how to avoid habits of vice and build in their place habits of virtue. He'll teach you how to pray while working at self-improvement -- and what true abandonment to God's will really means in your life. You'll learn how and why Jesus tests you and how to evaluate whether you're ready to "take up your cross and follow Him." Best of all, you'll learn how to react courageously when challenged by family and friends -- and by God Himself. Jesus is standing on the road beside you right now and asking, "Where are you going?" Are you ready to enter into Deep Adventure? Are you equipped to take up your cross and follow God? Are you prepared to let virtue propel you into the wild adventure of God's will? Are you ready to walk the Way of Heroic Virtue?

This book is for those who suspect that current practices of short-term missions are in need of serious reform. It is a book for those who recognize that, in this decade of global upheaval--and in light of the cultural, political, and demographic shifts affecting churches everywhere--now is the time for change. The essays here are intended to equip and inspire any who want to advocate for change but may not yet know what change looks like. This book offers honest perspectives from people who care about the purposes of short-term missions (STM) yet know that we must figure out better ways of achieving them. Nearly all contributors are actively engaged in STM--and many write from the perspective of those who host STM teams in places all over the world. This book is a platform for visionaries who are calling for better ways for the church to engage the needs of the world. In sharing their experiences, they hope to promote critical rethinking and creative reimagination about the ways that the global church might learn to collaborate on a new basis of coequality and mutual respect--for the good of the world and the glory of God.

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