Revised and updated in 2017. How to Plan, Prepare and Successfully Complete Your Short-Term Mission (STM) will guide you through all you need to know about your STM. The author has been on more than thirty mission trips and has experience: as a team member, a leader and as a host. He has participated in the most incredible mission adventures, sharing the Word in Sudan, preaching in villages in India, supplying Bibles in North Africa, assisting the persecuted Church in Asia, and maintaining mission centres in Europe. The book Includes: • What to buy, take with you and leave behind • Who to go with, where to go and when to depart • To join a mission organisation or plan your own STM • The duration, destination and timing of your mission trip • Types of STMs – evangelistic, preaching or humanitarian • Medical issues, your passport, visa and travelling with money • Emotional and spiritual work before, during and on your return • Understanding culture, language and giving your testimony • How to get the money to go and setting a realistic budget • Food, drink, accommodation and working with the locals • Team dynamics, etiquette, leadership and the team • Security, wisdom and safety – being streetwise • Having a safe and successful STM Mathew Backholer is the co-founder of ByFaith Media (www.ByFaith.co.uk) and films and presents the reality mission series ByFaith TV which airs globally on numerous Christian networks. He has travelled to forty nations of the world and is the author of many books, including: Short-Term Missions: A Christian Guide, Extreme Faith: On Fire Christianity, Revival Fires and Awakenings and Global Revival: Worldwide Outpourings.

Everything you need to know to plan a successful short-term missions trip from an authoritative source. Packed with comprehensive, down-to-earth, practical information.

Updated in 2020, including a chapter on traveling amidst the coronavirus (Covid-19), a worldwide pandemic. Short-Term Missions, A Christian Guide to STMs is a full and concise guide to STMs. What you need to know about planning a STM, or joining a STM team, and considering the options as part of the Great Commission, from the Good News to good works. This book is full of anecdotes and advice with informative timelines, and a biblical framework for STMs to help you engage in cross-cultural missions; with viable solutions to common mission issues to make your STM more effective to the glory of God. Mission considerations and types of STMs. What to do, where to go, with the best methods. How to pick a team or choose a STM organization. Raising financial support and managing your STM budget. Travel kit list, items to buy and what to leave behind. Emotional and spiritual work, before, during and at home. Security, safety, duty and character, and being streetwise. Dealing with social media and disruptive team members. Medical advice, obtaining a visa and your plane ticket. What to pack, how best to travel and airport etiquette. Christian literature, building a home or sinking a bore well. Communication, language issues and public speaking. Team dynamics, food and drink, the tribe, and social time. Working with the locals and being culturally sensitive. What to do before and after you return home. Mathew Backholer is the co-founder of ByFaith Media (ByFaith.org) and films and presents the reality mission series ByFaith TV which airs globally on numerous Christian networks. He has been on more than thirty mission trips and has experience: as a team member, a leader and as a host. Mathew is passionate about the Great Commission – to make disciples of Jesus in all nations by the power of the Holy Spirit. He has travelled the length of Africa, from Cairo to the Cape, across South-East Asia from India to Vietnam and from Nepal to Russia via China and Mongolia and has survived the Trans-Siberian Railway. He has driven around Europe, visited North Africa six times, and has journeyed alone, with friends, as part of team and as a leader.

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

Service learning teams and short-term mission opportunities have incredible potential to help participants stretch their faith, to help others, and gain a bigger picture of what God is doing in the world. To be effective, and to serve others in ways that are helpful, preparation is essential. This book will help readers think through things such as: •Deciding whether or not to join a team (and addressing the problem of team members dropping out) •Thinking carefully about fundraising •Anticipating group conflict, and strategies for preventing and managing conflict •Preparing for cross-cultural encounters and cross-cultural reflection •Reentry and reflection The book is designed for groups (whether for those preparing many teams at once or for individual teams) and for individuals themselves. It includes careful Christian reflection and draws on cross-cultural experience and research. It can be used as a workbook to encourage deliberation about the most pressing issues likely to be faced in preparing for service learning and short-term mission opportunities with the goal of promoting lifelong change.

Many people invest months of their hard-earned savings to go on a short-term mission trip, yet still go unprepared, spiritually, emotionally and physically. Covering 29 subjects in 35 lessons and with the full use of Scripture, this book will aid the reader to discern the voice of God, finding His will and direction and how to implement and prepare for the call on their life. It covers the practical application of preparing for a short-term mission trip, to include: implementing a God-given vision, financial, emotional, physical and spiritual preparation. Hearing and Implementing the Call of God Preparation for Short-term Mission Evangelism, Teaching and Discipleship Ministering in the Power of the Holy Spirit After reaching the mission field (or in your home town) the book covers the various aspects and approaches which can be used in evangelism; showing the biblical methods of teaching other believers the truths of God's word; how to enter into the fullness of God by being set free from past bondages and afflictions; being made whole in body, soul and spirit; and being built up in the most holy faith. Mathew Backholer has been on more than 30 short-term mission trips in over 20 countries on four continents. He is the author of much of the ByFaith website (www.byfaith.co.uk) and also films and presents the reality mission series: ByFaith TV 'A Journey of Discipleship' (www.byfaithtv.co.uk).

Spiritual Warfare contains powerful prayers, declarations and decrees to release God’s blessing into every area of your life, and to break the powers of darkness over you and your family. Discover a commanding five-month collection of strategic prayers and proclamations to strengthen and equip you. These daily biblical declarations and confessions provide a template to renew the mind, so you can press into God’s promises and enjoy an abundant, victorious life in Jesus Christ. Learn how to enter Christ’s fullness and overcome the enemy in countless areas of your life through proclamation and warfare prayers. Including: Living under God’s blessing, healing and wholeness, freedom to sleep in peace, God’s favour on finances, stress defeated, victory over the enemy, Christ’s perfect peace, liberty from rejection, blessings on my home and family, the spirit of boldness, insecurity and inferiority defeated, fear and intimidation overcome, what Christ has done for me, revoking negative confessions, no condemnation in Christ, freedom from evil spirits, the best is yet to come, and much more. This devotional includes a potent introduction to the efficacy of biblical confession in spiritual warfare and provides you with biblical principles to overcome evil, as you enter Christ’s inheritance. Powerfully assert Christ’s victory in your life, as you thrive, renewing your strength each day with hope. Enter the Lord’s generous and abundant life, as you know God’s Word, believe God’s Word and confess God’s Word. Including: Self-Worth and Confidence: No Condemnation in Christ, Justified and Sanctified, I am an Overcomer in Christ, Christ is My Refuge, What Christ Has Done for Me, I am Wonderfully Made Abundant Wealth and Poverty Defeated: Renouncing Poverty, Financial Abundance, Blessed Everywhere, Abundance and No Lack, The Power to get Wealth, I Call Forth My Hundredfold Fear, Anxiety & Panic Attacks Overcome: Overcoming Social Anxiety and Panic Attacks, Freedom to Sleep in Peace, Fear and Intimidation Defeated, Inferiority and Insecurity Defeated, Depression Defeated, Self-Loathing is Defeated Healing and Courage: Stress and God’s Perfect Peace, Healing and Wholeness Suicide, Self-Harm and Death Defeated, Healing Declarations, The Best is Yet to Come, Healing and Youth Renewed Curses and Evil Spirits Defeated: Revoking Negative Confessions, Release from Ungodly Soul Ties, Renouncing Unbelief and Curses, Freedom from Evil Spirits, Freedom from Ungodly Ancestral Ties, Free Yourself from Demons. Victory and Protection: The Armour of God, Victory in Christ, God’s Power Over the Enemy, I am More Than a Conqueror, The Blood of Jesus, Travelling Mercies. Paul Backholer is the co-founder and global director of ByFaith Media (www.ByFaith.org). Paul is an author, broadcaster, explorer and analyst who has appeared on Christian channels globally. As a faith-based documentary maker, he produces and co-presents ByFaith TV. Paul is the author of many books including The Baptism of Fire, The End Times, Heaven, Paradise is Real and How Christianity Made the Modern World. Paul studied theology at Bible College and has travelled to over forty nations working with Christian projects and charities.