– Statistics:
– $45 billion given to Mission Trips
– 400,000 foreign missionaries
– 5.5 million full-time Christian workers
– Only 10% of international students reached by ministries in the US
– 2.2 billion Christians worldwide
– Criticisms:
– Shift towards militarization in modern short-term missionary work
– Conflation of spiritualism with military metaphors
– Spiritual warfare concept in missionary practices
– Questioning the use of military metaphors in spreading religious faith
– Not all missions, short-term or otherwise, necessarily implicated
– See also:
– Mission (Christian)
– Notes:
– Peterson, Amy. Rethinking the Language of Short-Term Missions.
– Nations Media. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
– Research and Statistics. Short Term Missions. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
– Missionary. (2005). In The Macquarie Dictionary.
– Hickman, Claude. Mission Statistics. The Traveling Team. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
– References:
– Randall, Ian. Spiritual Revolution, The Story of OM, Authentic, 2008.
– Howell, Brian M. Short-Term Mission, InterVarsity Press, 2012.
– Hickman, Claude. Missions Statistics. The Traveling Team, 2015.
– Maxson, Macy. 5 Destinations for Your First Mission Trip. Faith Ventures, 12 Sept. 2019.
– Peterson, Amy PetersonAmy. Rethinking the Language of Short-Term Missions. Nations Media, 11 Feb. 2020.
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A short-term mission (STM) is the mobilization of a Christian missionary for a short period of time ranging from days to a year; many short-term missions are called mission trips. The short-term missionary is a fairly recent innovation in the global missions movement, but many short-term missions agencies are seeing an increased number of trips that consist of a week up to a year.