Description:
This course gives a brief overview of CVM's mission and values, short-term trip sites, and opportunities for long-term service in North America.
*Note: You must visit both modules in order to complete this course.
- Teacher: Alyssa Jeffers
Description:
This course gives a brief overview of CVM's mission and values as well as short-term trip opportunities in Latin America.
*Note: You must visit both modules in order to complete this course.
- Teacher: Alyssa Jeffers
Description:
This course gives a brief overview of CVM's mission and values, short-term trip sites, and opportunities for long-term service in Asia.
*Note: You must visit both modules in order to complete this course.
Description:
This course gives a brief overview of CVM's mission and values and short-term trip sites in Africa.
*Note: You must visit both modules in order to complete this course.
Description:
The way you share about your mission trip can be inspirational and challenging, or it can be detrimental to your cause. What is the difference? How can you inspire instead of discourage? This course will give you some suggestions on how to share your experience in a way that respects the people you serve and excites others to experience God' work on a mission trip as well.
*Note: You must complete both modules in order to complete this course.
Objectives:
By the end of this course, learners will
- understand how to share about their short-term mission trip in a way that respects the people they served and challenges their audience.
Description:
Raising support is an important part of short-term missions. Many believe raising support is simply the process of asking for money, but it is so much more. This course will help you develop a positive attitude towards raising support by addressing misconceptions concerning this process and by giving you practical tools to help you succeed.
*Note: You must visit all 3 modules in order to complete this course.
Objectives:
By the end of this course, learners will
- Understand that raising support is a process of prayer, partnership, and fundraising
- Know how to establish a plan for raising support
- Understand the CVM short-term budgeting process and expectations
- Be familiar with tools that assist with raising support
- Be able to develop a team communication strategy
- Teacher: Alyssa Jeffers
Description:
Although short-term missions is great, a mission experience can sometimes be frustrating. Objectives may go unmet and discouragement can steal the joy of serving. Instead of continuing to press forward in the same manner, the process of debriefing can lead to adjustments and a new-found joy in ministry. This course will show how important debriefing is and will make suggestions on how to debrief in a helpful way. Through honest daily evaluations and adjustments, and sharing your findings with others, your ministry will have an impact that reaches far beyond what you can accomplish as an individual.
*Note: You must visit all 3 modules in order to complete this course.
Objectives:
By the end of this course, learners will
- Understand why trip debriefing is important
- Have resources and tips for a productive debriefing experience.
Description:
In this brief presentation, Dr. Lauren Charles discusses ways to bless your missions host through your attitude.
*Note: You must visit all 3 modules in order to complete this course.
- Teacher: Alyssa Jeffers
Description:
Working with a short-term mission team can be an enjoyable and beneficial experience, but there are challenges involved in taking on such a responsibility. Short-term teams can be a blessing to you and your ministry partners, as well as the local community, if they are prepared for service and if you help them understand what they are experiencing. This course will help you better understand the needs of a short-term team, avoid common pitfalls in hosting, and set a practical and realistic foundation for a positive ministry experience.
This course can help you prepare to host your first short-term team or to infuse fresh perspective into your typical way of hosting a team. Use this course as a way to rethink and reframe your attitude about short-term teams and their importance to your ministry.
*Note: You must visit all 4 modules in order to complete this course.
Objectives:
By the end of this course, learners will
- Be able to explain the value and benefits of hosting a short-term mission team
- Know how to plan for hosting a short-term team
- Know what to do while hosting a short-term team
- Know what to do after a short-term team has left
- Know what pitfalls to avoid while hosting a short-term team
