Equipped for Adventure: A Practical Guide to Short-Term Mission Trips

by Scott Kirby

Equipped for Adventure is a guide for churches wanting to establish a short-term missions ministry. This book is unique in that it goes beyond simply equipping the individual for short-term missions by helping the church develop a short-term missions ministry. After briefly discussing philosophies and considerations for developing a missional ministry, the author provides detailed steps for planning, participating, and following up on mission...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596690119
• ISBN13: 9781596690110
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: New Hope Publishers (AL)
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Equipped for Adventure: Review

Equipped for Adventure: A Practical Guide to Short-Term Mission Trips by Scott Kirby was published in 2006 by New Hope Publishers. It is a handbook for making short-term mission trips happen. This is a holistic treatment of the process of making short-term missions a centerpiece of your church's ministry. Kirby casts vision, answers criticisms, and then proceeds step by step through the process of planning, organizing, actuating, and following up a mission trip. I found this to be a helpful text. Kirby provides the busy minister or volunteer with a guide to make missions a reality in any context. I thought one of the most enlightening conversations in the book was in reference to partnerships. The discussion helps to provide a matrix for understanding when and with whom a partnership ought to be formed. I also found the Appendices to be helpful. These provide the resources to carry out the ideas and concepts taught in the book. This is key. So many other books on mission leave out the applicable. I strongly recommend this book for those who are looking to begin doing short-term missions or bring focus to their church's mission program. Become a New Hope Book Review Blogger. Visit [..] for more information.

Incredible Short Term Mission Resource

SCOTT KIRBY presents perhaps the most practical resource for short term mission trips currently available. Equipped for Adventure: A Practical Guide to Short-Term Mission Trips (New Hope Publishers 2006) is the prerequisite handbook for pastors, mission team leaders, and mission team participants. The first section of the book deals effectively with a case for short term mission trips and their necessity in our culture today. Kirby lays out the arguments for and against short term mission trips and adequately answers the concerns for the perceived short-comings of short term trips. The second section of the book gets right to the heart of the matter of planning, funding, preparing, promoting, and potential problems of short term missions. This is not a simply theory text; it is a practical guidebook which should be required reading for every pastor (for its passionate case for mission involvement) every short term mission team leader (for it practical guide to think about what could be easily overlooked) and every short term mission team participant (for its relevant and practical advice). As a former career missionary who has been on the field end of volunteer mission teams, I wholeheartedly recommend this book to current field personnel (missionaries) who may one day receive volunteer teams. If it were up to me, I would make this book part of any mission teams training prior to field arrival. As a current pastor, I plan on implementing the book in future short term mission trips in which my church will participate. I honestly wish I would/could have written this book. It is an excellent resource and I recommend it unreservedly to any and all who will one day participate in short term missions.

Useful, Benificial and Practical

This book about STMs is Useful, Benificial and Practical. Nice big book with lots of helpful and useful info. About finances, what to take, why do missions, how do missions etc. Written by a man who has taken 3000 people on 130 STM trips - based on a church taking a team out. Written from experience. Very practical book with lots of helpful and useful points and as a book which focuses on taking a team then this is the best team book i have read to date. Good source of websites scattered throughout the book and useful appendices about release forms etc. The best STM book i have read to date is: How to Plan, Prepare and Successfully Complete Your Short-Term Mission - For Volunteers, Churches, Independent STM Teams and Mission Organisations. The ... and those Planning a Christian Gap Year T