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Short term missions resources
10 ways to ruin short-term mission trips
"Dear Youth in Mission" - what I wish I'd known
Fund raising ideas for Youth in Mission and other short-term missions experiences
Building your network of prayer supporters
PowerPoint fund raising presentation
Knowing if you have a missions call
How to pray for missionaries
More missions case studies
Linking to me
"Youth in Mission" is a ministry of Nazarene World Missions which places teams of college young people in ministry sites around the world for eight weeks each summer. YIM is currently directed by Joel Tooley.
Youth in Mission is a volunteer, short-term mission experience for which participants must raise all of the funds to pay their expenses. It is a Nazarene 10% Approved Special program [ more info ] (which means a seal of approval is on it).
Southern Nazarene University participates actively in Youth in Mission by inviting the YIM leadership team to campus in September or October for two to three days of recruitment via chapel presentations and one-on-one interviews.
In the summer of 2008 we will have 16 or so SNU students on Youth in Mission teams in places like Slovenia, Malawi, Vancouver, Thailand, Saipan, India, and Australia. Our long-term goal is to have at least 50 participants from SNU.
Students apply on-line in the fall. Selections to teams are announced by the end of the year. Training begins early in the spring semester with weekly meetings on campus. A week-long training camp in early June catapults the students into their ministry assignments.Reports
On the SNU web site
- Jacob Page and Jessica Sage in JESUS film ministry [ read article ]
- SNU's record number of participants [ read article ]
- "God's Smile in the Dominican Republic" -- John Evans
- "Forever changed," article in Southern Light
- "I cannot do this" -- Jenny Stevens [ read article ]
- "I have slept in a mud hut with flying roaches" -- Jessica Sage [ read article ]
- "Experiencing the freedom to fail" -- Christyn Lauffer [ read article ]
- "YIM is reminder of God's faithfulness and forgiveness" -- Laura Larpenteur [ read article ]
- "Two months to change the world" -- Holiness Today article [ read article ]
Case studies
- A prank backfires: unity on a multicultural team
- Don't tell Shari: entertainment decisions on a "day off"
- Giving Jeff a thrill: flirting on a short-term missions trip
- Salvage job: a team seems to be disintegrating
- How can I use these case studies to prepare for my mission trip? [ read more ]
Making balloon animals
Balloon animals are a great way to cross cultural and language barriers with people of all ages. [ Instructions from Pioneer National Latex (purchased at Wal-Mart ]
PowerPoint training tools
- Creating links in the chain of experiences that lead to faith [ view online ] [ view as PowerPoint ]
- Spiritual warfare: a PowerPoint presentation [ view online ] [ view as PowerPoint ]
Youth in Mission participants from SNU
YIM remittance form for sending money to General Treasurer's office in Kansas City
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