A Picture’s Worth a Lot of Words Deep Justice Journeys Sample Activity
Use this activity within a month after your trip to help solidify the connections between serving “there” and serving “here.”
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Eat it Up Free Deep Justice Journeys Sample
Looking for a way to spice up your meals on your summer mission trip? Here’s a free activity from Deep Justice Journeys to lead your group deeper while you eat.
Deep Justice Journeys Live
Watch a presentation by FYI’s Kara Powell on shifting short-term mission trips to become justice journeys!
Short-Term Missions and Missional Youth Ministry
FYI research partner and short-term missions guru Eric Iverson shares a new vision for missional involvement with the poor.
Anonymous (Stories from East Africa)
After spending two weeks in East Africa, it was the slums and her inhabitants that stuck out the most. Though I met many during my time in the Misri, Bukesa, and Kawempe slums, the majority that I saw were nameless …
Two Whom Beyond the Typical Short-Term Mission Trip
According to the World Bank and the United Nations, people in developing countries can be defined as living in poverty when they have to live on less than $2.00 a day. Since my students spend more than that on a …
Journeying Together Creating Walls of Support and Feedback for Students
This final sample from our new short-term missions curriculum Deep Justice Journeys includes both theory and practical ideas for ways to surround students with support while they serve.
Living More Than Mission Trip to Mission Trip Leveraging Social Media to Multiply a Missional Team
What happens to that incredible mission team a few weeks after the trip? Too often, nothing. If you’re no longer satisfied with that result, prepare yourself for this innovative and practical look into utilizing social media to catalyze a missional movement.
The (Often Neglected) Missionary Partner
Much ink (and online pixels) have been spilled over how to move students past spiritual tourism to mission trips and eventually missional living. One of the often neglected keys in this process is the role of the in-field missionary partner.
Leveraging Social Media to Build A Missional Team
Whatever our feelings about social media applications, we can’t ignore their reality in kids’ lives. Front-lines youth pastor Drew Sams shares innovative research and practice in utilizing social web platforms for short-term missions team building.