Sharing your testimony on a trip can sometimes seem like a daunting task, but it can also be one of our most effective tools. Dr. Mary McDonald provides a simple, effective framework for sharing your story.
*Note: You must visit both modules in order to complete this course.
Sharing your testimony on a trip can sometimes seem like a daunting task, but it can also be one of our most effective tools. Dr. Mary McDonald provides a simple, effective framework for sharing your story.
*Note: You must visit both modules in order to complete this course.
Welcome to Engaging Gen Z: Turning Short-Term Trips into Lifelong Mission! This course equips short-term mission trip leaders to intentionally mentor and mobilize Gen Z toward long-term engagement in God’s global mission. You’ll explore key insights from current research on what draws and hinders Gen Z from pursuing missions, learn practical ways to guide them through reflection and spiritual growth during trips, and discover how to help them take clear next steps after returning home. Expect to gain tools for listening well, fostering authentic community, addressing common barriers, and turning your short-term trip into a launchpad for lifelong service.
Description: The objective of CVM’s short-term mission efforts is simply stated as Short-term missions with a long-term impact. Obviously, you are helping to lead a short-term mission trip. But consider that this has a long-term impact on so many people and, through your leadership, you can help that impact be a positive one. We hope that these experiences have a long-term impact on you as a leader, helping you deepen your faith in Christ and care about the people you lead as well as those you serve. We hope these experiences have a long-term impact on your team members as they serve others in ways that encourage healthy growth in communities without fostering unhealthy dependence on mission teams. And, of course, we hope the long-term impact extends to the individuals and communities whom you serve – enabling them to develop their communities, their own health and well-being, and their faith in Christ in sustainable ways. *Note: You must visit all 3 modules in order to complete this course. Objectives: By the end of this course, learners will Recall CVM’s objective for short-term missions and explain its meaning Name aspects of caring for your team and express how these enable a long-term impact Identify how reliable and effective communication with your team, your host, and CVM staff facilitates long-term impact Describe how framing the missions experience for your team fosters a long-term impact Understand how anticipating difficult circumstances on the field helps promote a long-term impact Recognize that both preparation and flexibility are essential to a short-term mission with a long-term impact
Description: The short-term mission team leader is important in assuring that a short-term mission team, as well as the host, has a good experience. A properly prepared team leader does not ensure that a trip will be without conflict or challenges, but it does ensure that these things can be overcome in a positive way. There are many aspects of proper team leader preparation, and this course will focus on the care a team leader should give to their team. Caring for a team begins prior to the trip, continues during the trip, and extends after the trip is complete. By approaching team care in this way, a short-term mission team leader can facilitate a positive experience for all involved and improve team care for future trips. *Note: You must visit all 3 modules in order to complete this course. Objectives: By the end of this course, learners will Be able to explain why team care is important Be able to care for their teams prior to short-term mission trips Be able to care for their teams during short-term mission trips Be able to care for their teams after short-term mission trips Know how to develop a team care plan that grows more effective with each team Certs & Credits Certificate of Completion
Description: The trip leader is key to a positive short-term mission experience. In this course, we discuss the need for a leader to put the mission trip in context for participants. Framing the experience helps the mission team to focus on what is important and not become sidetracked by secondary things. This course will show how communicating purpose, setting priorities, and leading by example will help you mentor your team toward short-term missions with long-term impacts. *Note: You must visit all 3 modules in order to complete this course. Objectives By the end of this course, learners will Be able to explain what framing a mission experience is and why it is important Develop a personal mission statement as well as a purpose statement for their mission team Be able to develop a team priority list and action steps to accomplish those priorities Understand why leading by example is key to framing the mission experience for a team Certs & Credits Certificate of Completion
