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The U-Turn Church - New Direction for Health and Growth

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Increasing the Effectiveness of Short-Term Missions

short-term-missions Everything we do – evangelism, building projects, acts of charity and mercy, back-yard Bible clubs, prayer walks, etc.– should be in service to “making disciples.” In 1965 there were 540 individuals from North America involved in short-term missions in various locations around the world, according to one estimate. Today, by conservative estimates, upwards of one and a half a million Americans are involved in international short-term mission outreaches each year at the cost of billions of dollars annually. Churches find themselves asking questions like, “Is it worth it?” “How can we get better in the execution of short-term missions?” Eric Swanson explores the criteria that should we be measuring.