Short-term missions guidance

Article: How to Get Long-Term Impact from Your Short-Term Trips by Brian Fikkert

Helping Children Worldwide endorses a resource from Faith to Action which will help our missioners and volunteers become more effective advocates for the Child Reintegration Centre and Mercy Hospital.

Faith to Action sought recommendations and input from more than 50 stakeholders, including practitioners engaged in sending and receiving short-term missions, pastors, mission leaders, faith-based organizations, and academic leaders, to create this resource.  

Read or download Faith To Action's resource below.

Should you stay or should you go...to Bo?

Have you ever wondered if you should go on a mission trip? Mission travel can be challenging and is not for everyone, so how do you decide if this type of trip is right for you? Doing mission work for the right reasons is important, so we've put together a list of reasons to apply for a team, and some reasons not to apply.  Read the document below to help you discern your calling for a mission trip. 

For more information on the application process, email Yasmine Vaughan at mission@helpingchildrenworldwide.org

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Managed Missions

Helping Children Worldwide uses Managed Missions for their team information. All deadlines, tasks, and team training information can be found here. You will have to make an account with Managed Missions to use the software.  Click the link and select "Start Now" to begin the process. 

​Recommended reading for missioners

Missioners are required to read the following book before embarking on their mission trip:

• Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence by David A. Livermore

Suggested reading about global missions:

• When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
• Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help, And How to Reverse It by Robert D. Lupton
• Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships by Sherwood G. Lingenfelter
• Eternity in Their Hearts by Don Richardson
• The New Global Mission: The Gospel from Everywhere to Everyone by Samuel Escobar
• Mission Trips That Matter by Don C. Richter
• Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility by Duane Elmer

Suggested reading about Sierra Leone:

• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
• Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
• Sierra Leone Bradt Travel Guide
• Ancestor Stones by Aminata Forna
• The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara and Susan McClelland
• Sierra Leone (Cultures of the World) by Suzanne LeVert

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