90-page paperback; How you can joyfully, peacefully live forever! 22 easy-read devotional chapters on essential Christian fundamentals. Especially helpful for "mainline" or "occasional" Christians who may still wonder whether God really loves them.

Lessons for Life: How You Can Joyfully, Peacefully Live Forever

Peterson, Delpho P.

Religion & Spirituality

STEM Press

The most recent April 2008 second print run of this 285-page comprehensive perfect-bound paperback features everything you need to know to organize a short-term mission trip with high-level Kingdom impact and across-the-board effectiveness. This insight-laden second edition also includes the finalized Seven U.S. Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission, in addition to:
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<li>the exceptionally constructive 9-cell planning matrix, the MISTM-Grid
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<li>your must-plan time frames (pre-field, on-field, post-field)</li>
<li>your must-include stakeholders (senders, goers, receivers)</li>
<li>ground-breaking, solid short-term mission theology (OT &amp; NT)</li>
<li>historical overview of short-term mission, including more than 40 case studies of churches, agencies, and schools which send STMs</li>
<li>16 well-drawn illustrations/tables which capture summarized snapshots of the critical subject matter contained in this book.</li>
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Maximum Impact Short-Term Mission can help mission trip leaders reduce unnecessary exposure (risk) and improve mission trip outcomes for everyone involved, by helping to correctly identify all stakeholder and their three time periods of short-term mission trip responsibility.

Maximum Impact Short-Term Mission: The God-Commanded Repetitive Deployment of Swift, Temporary Non-Professional Missionaries

Roger P. Peterson

Gordon Aeschliman

R. Wayne Sneed

Christian Books & Bibles

This report contains the findings of a study conducted by STEM Ministries with regard to changes in the perceptions and behaviors of short-term mission participants as a result of, and subsequent to, their short-term mission experience with STEM. The study found substantial changes in prayer, financial giving, commitment to world mission, mission-related activities and education, and in feelings about returning to the mission field. These findings demonstrate an increase in participants' future contribution to the Biblical mandate of world mission as a result of their short-term mission.

Is Short-Term Mission Really Worth the Time and Money: Advancing God's Kingdom Through Short-Term Mission ø Results of Stem Short-Term Mission Research

Peterson, Roger P.

Peterson, Timothy D.

For skeptics or critical thinkers needing valid scientific data to help substantiate the potential value of short-term mission trips, this cleanly typeset, spiral bound 51-page report presents the findings of a study conducted in 1996 by Calvin Theological Seminary student researcher Dan McDonough -- summarized graphed, illustrated, and copy edited by Roger Peterson (13 easy-read tables, 4 graphs, 2 illustrations).   This study validated an earlier 1991 study with respect to observing substantial positive changes in mission-related prayer, giving, education, and return to the mission field -- all correlated to the short-term mission program conducted by STEM Ministries.   The new knowledge produced by this study identified two specific correlations in STEM's short-term mission program that were significantly more likely to put short-term mission participants on a path to longer-term missionary service.    This study provides helpful, evaluative data for churches, agencies, missiologists, scholars, and others concerned about ways to increase the likelihood of creating long-term career missionaries.

Can Short-Term Mission Really Create Long-Term Career Missionaries?: Results of STEM's Second Major Scientific Study on the Long-Term Effect of Short-Term Mission

McDonough, Daniel P.

The newly edited and updated 3rd Edition with new material including the new chapter, Finding a Partner is a 95-page paperback wrapped in a brand new cover. Author Dr. Dan Rickett continues to offer excellent, indispensable tools for assessing intercultural partnerships, with tactical strategies to build collaborative relationships that actually work. His succinct, focused writing is orderly and clear; his 8 superb checklists plus tables/illustrations capture vital concepts that will help any church or mission agency increase their likelihood to establish healthy, mutually-beneficial partnerships for the long haul. The book is an absolutely-must-have for every church and every agency that feels called to establish partnerships with another church or people group in another part of the world. [[ PARTNERSHIP and STRATEGIC are two of the most-used buzzwords in Christian mission today ]] Daniel takes the next step and makes them action words ]] for large denominations, small mission agencies, career missionaries, and short-term teams. Bruce Wall, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod World Mission [[ ]]great insight into effective partnerships with our brothers and sisters around the world the questions to ask, the pitfalls to avoid, principles on sharing resources and avoiding unhealthy dependency. We will use these tools for years to come to educate our short-term and long-term missionaries. Ruth White, Cherry Hills Community Church [[ I welcome the Third Edition of Building Strategic Relationships ]] the reader quickly realizes what he has in his hands in not merely a text that is relevant and of high quality, but a valuable tool for the proper implementation of thepartnership. Dr. Omar Gava, Global Strategic Resources; and the Global Training Network of COMIBAM Intl. [[ Several years ago, our church set out to build global partnerships with our brothers and sisters around the world. Other than the Bible, no book has helped that process more than Building Strategic Relationships. I've given away more copies than I can remember, personally delivering it to potential partners in South Africa, Thailand, Kenya, and Ecuador. Paul McGuinness, Parker Hill Community Church

Building Strategic Relationships: A Practical Guide to Partnering with Non-Western Missions

Rickett, Daniel

(from Chapter One): THE PEAKED thatched-roofed house seemed cozy enough. Gently bathed in rich moonlight and nestled nearby a large field of placid maize, it spoke of rest and peace. Few could have realized this dreamy, tranquil setting was nothing more than a pretentious backdrop to the treachery marching quietly on stage. Religious elders of the fiercely independent Chamula Indian tribe had issued a barbaric decree: this house--or rather, the people inside--were like rodents. Rodents must be exterminated. Like so many Indian dwellings in the highland beauty of southern Mexico, the walls of this uncomplicated one-room structure were made from upright poles plastered over with weather-blocking mud. Sturdied by heavy corner posts with beams atop each wall, its no-frills engineering supported the rain-shedding weight of the thick straw roof. Housed inside was an open hearth, a small wooden table, and a few chairs crafted out of white pine, each about the size of children's play furniture. Five reed sleeping mats lay unrolled, bedding their young occupants on the packed earthen floor. Outside, the docile moonlight danced playfully on a small fence trying to protect the garden plot that delivered cabbages, beans, squash, and natural turnip greens to its tenants. A small enclosure at the side of the house corralled a dozen sheep that provided wool for clothing and manure for fertilizer. Free-roaming chickens, now still and hushed for the night, roosted in nearby trees. The stage was calm, the setting serene--just like thousands of other households surrounding the tribal center, San Juan Chamula, that sleepy night. In the eyes of the elders however, the people in this house, who now followed a strange God, represented a severe threat to the tribe's religious system and cultural identity. The 'threat' was eighteen-year-old Paxcu (pahsh*ku) who was babysitting two nieces and her younger sister and brother--seven-year-old Abelina, her four- year-old sister Angelina, thirteen-year-old Tumina, and ten-year-old Domingo. All were asleep. In typical Indian fashion, everyone slept nude, using their clothing as blankets. Suddenly Paxcu's dogs began barking, agitated by someone or something going on outside. Still drowsy with sleep, she rose on one arm and peered through a crack in the door. Paxcu glimpsed flashes of orange light. A cold sweat surged through her body as she realized the orange flashes of light were deadly fingers of fire. A quick glance upward served only to confirm her worst fears. Fire was already racing through the thatch; the highly combustible roof would soon crash in and incinerate them all. The mob of men who came to carry out the elders' decree had lobbed gasoline on the roof, then ignited it. Armed with razor-sharp machetes and muzzle-loading shotguns, they arranged themselves in a semicircle before the only way of escape--the heavy hand-hewn plank door. "Get up--someone is here to kill us!" screamed Paxcu to the chil- dren. She thrust open the weighty door, only to be greeted by Xalic (shah*leek), the vigilante leader, who raised his gun. Xalic fired point blank at the tender young eighteen-year-old. A blistering blast struck Paxcu in her face and chest. Stunned, she slumped in the doorway, but just for a moment. She knew if she remained where she was, the long wicked machetes would come next ...

These Words Changed Everything: Startling News That Rebuilt a Maya Worldview

David Aeilts

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