You need to prepare for a mission trip. Plain and simple. Although prayer and spontaneity may help create a sense of adventure during your project, failing to prepare for a trip to the best of your ability is just bad stewardship.
Your preparation for a short term missions trip is crucial to the effectiveness of your project. Wedon’t mean to be harsh, but unprepared groups can damage the credibility
of our witness in an area.
As a short-term missions organization, we do our best to uphold the credibility of
the host church and local pastor. We guard against losing the trust of
the people and the faith of a youth group. We do this by preparing the team before they leave on their trip.
the host church and local pastor. We guard against losing the trust of
the people and the faith of a youth group. We do this by preparing the team before they leave on their trip.
The members of your group will be entering
spiritual war zones unlike any they have ever experienced. Please
encourage them to read their Bibles and pray together. This will not be
like watching a movie or playing a video game of good versus evil. This will require real spiritual training.
Each
member of your team will have a real-life opportunity to be used by the
Living God to change the eternal destinies of the people they will
meet. And, they’ll have an opportunity to entrust their lives to Jesus
Christ more completely than ever before. Such an opportunity should not be taken lightly.
Many short-term missions agencies have preparation seminars or sessions to help prepare your group (we host a free missions conference called the beConference, for example).
Regardless of where you go, what you do on your mission trip, or with whom you go, preparation is important to the success of your project.
To read more about how poor preparation can impact a mission trip, read this blog by Seth Barnes: “My worst project“.
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