Steve Corbett - Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions: Leaders Guide

Our world is rapidly changing, even in the way we do Christ-exalting missions! In this helpful book, the Chalmers Center has given us an insightful resource that will equip short-term mission teams to avoid pitfalls of crossing cultures, especially for those embarking on communities challenged by poverty. Teams will build their capacity to learn well, honor partnerships, and maximize the good they wish to do by using this guidebook to help design their objectives with faithful presence, understanding, and humility.

John H. Sather | National Director of Cru Inner City

This [curriculum] takes the best of the revolutionary work from When Helping Hurts and makes it practical for short-term mission teams traveling near and far. I highly commend this resource to you as a way to serve with cultural intelligence.

David Livermore, PhD | Author of Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence

Being a community development organization that has sent thousands of people on short-term trips to developing countries over the years, we are thrilled to introduce Fikkert and Corbetts latest work as a relevant, vital resource for our staff and teams. It is our strong desire that every church, school, and NGO sending (or receiving) short-term teams would not only read this book, but study itcritically evaluating the work being accomplished and applying its principles to ensure teams are helping without hurting.

Kurt Kandler | Executive Director of The 410 Bridge

If everyone responsible for sending or receiving a short-term service team can work through this resourceand take seriously its recommendationsI have no doubt that we will see the fruit in changed lives and stronger relationships within the global church.

Brian Howell, PhD | Professor of Anthropology at Wheaton College, author of Short-Term Mission: An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience

Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions is one of the most useful guides on STM in print. [When Helping Hurts] shaped the way compassionate people should think about engaging the materially poor. This book guides the way for short-term missioners to accompany the poor in real and lasting transformation.

Daniel Rickett, PhD | Cofounder of Coalition on the Support of Indigenous Ministries, author of Making Your Partnership Work

There is no shortcut to living the incarnation among others in another culture. Anyone serious about truly helping will immediately see the value of this book and be grateful to put it to good use.

Scott Steele | Executive Director at Cherokee Gives Back Foundation

These principles will help the church move beyond good intentions and toward a discipleship model that equips team members to become lifelong missionaries wherever they are, encourages partnership with local churches globally, and truly helps advance the work of God globally.

Jeff Ward | Director of External Focus at Watermark Community Church

What really sells me on these materials is that they address what to me is the #1 question for STM participants: How do we make sure the two-week mission experience turns into a long-term commitment both to the project we visited and to serving in the communities where we live?

Kurt Ver Beek, PhD | Professor of Sociology at Calvin College

Finally, a short-term missions curriculum that gets it right! For too long church leaders have known something is wrong with the way the church does short-term missions, but not how to fix it. This book will change that. It starts with an honest appraisal of the mistakes weve been making but moves on to provide smart, practical tools to transform the way we do short-term missions. A must-read for any group that wants to do short-term missions right. Two thumbs way up!

Jo Ann Van Engen | Codirector, Semester in Honduras, Calvin College

Our short-term mission culture warrants major rethinking. This book is a priceless tool because it helps do just that, providing an alternative paradigm for cross-cultural engagement and a framework for the messy process of reform.

Tim Ritter | Discipleship Coordinator at Reality SF

Yes, yes, yes! This book could change the way we do missions. Every chapter is right on target, delineating the costs and complexity of a trip, and demonstrating how to make it part of long-term engagement.

Miriam Adeney, PhD | Associate Professor of Global and Urban Ministry at Seattle Pacific University, author of Kingdom Without Borders: The Untold Story of Global Christianity

This book challenges stewardship of our finances, encourages accountability, and acknowledges that cross-cultural interaction is an incredible process when done with plenty of grace.

McKenna Raasch | Director of Global Outreach at Calvary Church, Los Gatos

Almost no one has helped shape how our church thinks about global poverty as much as Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett. This book furthers the discussion about effective gospel-based poverty relief strategies by translating the grand, compelling vision of When Helping Hurts into clear, actionable steps for churches. Our missions team has read this book, and we are implementing many of the insights within it.

J.D. Greear, PhD | author, Gospel: Recovering the Power That Made Christianity Revolutionary and Breaking the Islam Code

2014 by
STEVE CORBETT AND BRIAN FIKKERT

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Corbett, Steve.
Helping without hurting in short-term missions : leaders guide / Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-8024-1229-4
1. Short-term missions--Study and teaching. I. Title.
BV2082.S56C67 2014
266--dc23
2014018802

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