Short-term missions guidance

Helping Children Worldwide endorses a new resource from Faith to Action (www.faithtoaction.org) which we believe will help our missioners and volunteers become more effective advocates for the Child Reintegration Centre and Mercy Hospital.

"Short-Term Missions: Guidance to Support Orphans and Vulnerable Children" is a comprehensive resource that provides guidance and better practice standards for short-term missions to ensure positive outcomes for vulnerable children, their families, and their communities. 

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.  

You can read or download this 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. Explore the document below!

If mission travel is for you, there is still time to apply for the October 2019 mission team! You will have the opportunity to engage with and support the hardworking staff at the Child Reintegration Centre and Mercy Hospital. Sponsors of CRC students will have the opportunity to visit the student they sponsor.

For more information on the application process, or for teleconference instructions for the interest meeting, email Linda at mission@helpingchildrenworldwide.org

​Recommended reading

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:

• 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

On 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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