This course provides an understanding of the issues surrounding the execution of short-term missions (less than one month) in the context of the socio-economic poor. Short-term missions have the opportunity to produce important benefits, but also have the potential to do significant harm, particularly to the poor. This course presents frameworks for considering these issues so that course participants can strengthen their overall short-term missions program and their individual missions projects. The ultimate goal is that the benefits of short-term missions are maximized and any harm is minimized. The course is designed for: 1) sending churches and denominations, 2) host churches and missionaries, 3) missions project leaders, and 4) missions team members. The training is applicable to missions trips to locations in the U.S./Canada as well as throughout the world.

Prerequisite
None

Training Options and Registration
Email-based Distance Learning

Length
The distance learning course is three weeks long. You may spend an average of 6 - 8 hours per week on this course.