How to Plan, Prepare and Successfully Complete your Short-Term Mission: For Volunteers, Churches, Independent STM Teams & Mission Organisations: The Ultimate Guide to Missions – For Individuals, Leaders, Teams and those Planning a Christian Gap Year The Why, Where and When of STMs
About this audiobook
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.
Traveling amidst coronavirus (Covid-19), a worldwide pandemic.
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.
About the author
Mathew Backholer was born in the 1970s and became a Christian as a child, committing his life to serving God in his early twenties. He is a revival historian, seasoned traveller, broadcaster, writer, author, researcher, editor and co-founder of ByFaith Media. In the late 1990s, Mathew studied at the Bible College of Wales under the Directorship of Samuel Rees Howells where he later worked as a staff member, carrying out various duties, including teaching English (TEFL), itinerant preaching and leading teams of students in outreaches, including weeks of evangelism.
As co-founder of ByFaith Media, Mathew researches and develops new books, contributes articles for the ByFaith website (www.ByFaith.org) and prepares for new TV projects with his brother Paul. Mathew has travelled to more than forty nations of the world carrying out research, executing missions and filming/presenting Christian TV and documentary projects. Mathew is also a guest speaker on Revelation TV.
Mathew is passionate about the Great Commission – to make disciples of Jesus in all nations by the power of the Holy Spirit. He has preached and taught at home and abroad, he is interdenominational in character, evangelical in outlook and has written more than twenty books.
