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Life-Changing Mission: Devotions for Your Short-Term Trip
Life-Changing Mission helps short-term mission teams get the most out of their trip and live on mission once they get back home.
Mission trips give participants a unique opportunity to see and experience God differently than they do at home. While most people who take short-term mission trips describe them as life-changing, the truth is that after they return home, not a lot changes in how they live day-to-day, and the memories start to fade. Life-Changing Mission offers ten impactful devotions from Acts for short-term mission teams that will help them prepare spiritually for their trip, stay connected to Jesus while they serve, and continue to expand God’s kingdom when they return home.
The devotions will help readers connect what they are doing each day to God’s big kingdom and see how God is using them, just as he did the early Christians, to bring hope and healing to the world. Each devotion emphasizes the power of God to use weak and needy people to bring the gospel to a broken world.
Written by men and women who serve as missionaries and edited by Patric Knaak, Deputy Director of Mission at Serge.Includes a pre-trip exercise, ten guided devotions, and space for journaling about the unique memories, people, and experiences encountered along the way.Three debriefing sections for after the return home give participants an opportunity to process all they saw and learned.
Mission trips give participants a unique opportunity to see and experience God differently than they do at home. While most people who take short-term mission trips describe them as life-changing, the truth is that after they return home, not a lot changes in how they live day-to-day, and the memories start to fade. Life-Changing Mission offers ten impactful devotions from Acts for short-term mission teams that will help them prepare spiritually for their trip, stay connected to Jesus while they serve, and continue to expand God’s kingdom when they return home.
The devotions will help readers connect what they are doing each day to God’s big kingdom and see how God is using them, just as he did the early Christians, to bring hope and healing to the world. Each devotion emphasizes the power of God to use weak and needy people to bring the gospel to a broken world.
Written by men and women who serve as missionaries and edited by Patric Knaak, Deputy Director of Mission at Serge.Includes a pre-trip exercise, ten guided devotions, and space for journaling about the unique memories, people, and experiences encountered along the way.Three debriefing sections for after the return home give participants an opportunity to process all they saw and learned.
160 pages, Paperback
Published January 20, 2025
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December 30, 2024
You’ll want to pick up this resource for your next short-term mission trip. I really appreciate the robust tools for all stages of the trip: preparation, time on the ground, and debrief. You and your team will have an opportunity to reflect on what God is showing you each day and you’ll be encouraged to consider your involvement in God’s global mission beyond this experience.
January 7, 2025
While this book is written for those on short-term missions trips, the reality is that we are all on mission every day right where we are. The insights, challenges, and encouragements in this study speak to my heart daily.
March 17, 2026
Seems like a decent book for devos during a short term missions trip. One of the options I am considering so reading it in preparation. Seems solid but still unsure.
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