David A. Livermore - Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence
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Foreword by Paul Borthwick
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Looking through a Wide-Angle Lens: Globalization and the Church
1. One World: Snapshots of the Globe
2. One Church: The Changing Face of Christianity
Part 2: Conflicting Images: The North American Perspective versus the Majority World Church Perspective on Short-Term Missions
3. Motivation: Missions Should Be Fun!
4. Urgency: Just Do It!
5. Common Ground: They Dont Fly Planes in India When It Rains
6. The Bible: Just Stick to the Bible and You Cant Go Wrong!
7. Money: Theyre So Happy
8. Simplicity: Youre Either for Us or against Us!
Part 3: Sharpening Our Focus and Service with Cultural Intelligence (CQ)
9. Try, Try Again: CQ Drive
10. Seek to Understand: CQ Knowledge
11. On Second Thought: CQ Strategy
12. Actions Speak Louder than Words: CQ Action
13. The Heart of the Matter: Shema
Appendix: Recommended Resources
Notes
I ve had the privilege of knowing about Dave Livermore and observing his dedication to cross-cultural ministry for more than a decade. As with many of the early devotees of short-term missions, especially trips involving young people, Daves interest in and commitment to short-term missions started with a view that focused primarily on giving Western Christians a great cross-cultural experience to foster their own growth.
In the late twentieth century, churches across America (and other wealthier nations) jumped at this unprecedented opportunity created by the advent of long-haul travel to go, minister, and learn in a fascinating world of cultures and adventures. Short-term missions morphed from a primary avenue for missionary recruitment to a foundational way to provoke spiritual growth in the lives of the participants.
Thankfully, Dave did not stay locked in this missions for the benefit of me mind-set. His long-term dedication to listening to and learning from brothers and sisters in the non-Western world transformed his perspective into what is now a commitment to genuine cross-cultural relationships and effective partnerships with the church in the majority world.
I finally met Dave personally when he was well into this journey, and I deeply appreciated his willingness to be self-critical, to ask tough questions about some of our culturally insensitive assumptions, and to practice what he preaches in this book. He has slowed down, put his passport on the shelf for a while, and asked questions about rethinking and reworking short-term missions.
This book is the result of his reflection and research. It will serve well any leader who is willing to ask questions about how short-term missions can best serve the global advancement of Christs kingdomand not just the experiential advancement of Christians who are wealthy enough to participate in global adventures.
Daves global overviews, careful research, and practical tools combine his skills as a youth worker, missiologist, and anthropologist. Like a news reporter in the helicopter above the highway, Dave gives us the skyway patrol view of short-term missions. While we are celebrating the sheer volume of short-term missions traffic, Dave takes time to give us a sense of the road ahead. He warns us of the culturally insensitive potholes that could keep us from joining the mainstream of Gods activity in the majority world. He gives voice to non-Western leaders so that we dont continue on the road to ineffectiveness. And he points us in a direction that will keep us from taking the wrong exit, a detour into our own cultural self-absorption caused by our failure to evaluate our basic assumptions and listen to our non-Western co-travelers.
Like Dave, I believe in short-term missions, and I encourage churches and ministries to get involved. But I also believe that our Western approach to short-term missions, behavior in relating to those from other cultures, and perspective on the purposes of short-term missions desperately need an overhaul and a reevaluation. Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence provokes this overhaul. Any leader who is willing to take time to reflect on where short-term missions fits in our Western contribution to global Christianity will find this book an essential resource.
Paul Borthwick, Development Associates International, author of A Mind for Missions
S ince the first edition of this book was released in 2006, Ive sometimes been approached at Christian conferences by someone who says, Heyyoure the guy who hates short-term missions, arent you?
Its not exactly the way I want to be known. And its not really true. I dont hate short-term missions. But I understand why some have heard my critiques about short-term missions without also hearing me say that I think theres tremendous potential in short-term missions done well.
But what has surprised me far more is the way this book has been generously received by so many people. Many readers have said things like, These were things I always wondered about but never really voiced. Or This doesnt apply only to a short-term missions trip. I see the same things in how we interact with culturally diverse people at home.
Heres the deal. I dont hate short-term missions. Ive been participating in short-term missions for more than twenty-five yearsas a participant, a leader, and a researcher. And even to this day, I travel overseas several times a year to minister and teach in various places around the world. Its because I think short-term missions can be such a transformative experience for everyone involved that Ive been motivated to examine the good and the bad of our North American endeavors.
The second edition of Serving with Eyes Wide Open includes the core of what was in the first edition: a wide-angled look at the realities of our twenty-first-century world, a focus on some conflicts between how many North Americans describe their short-term missions experiences and the perspective of the locals who receive them, and an introduction to cultural intelligence as a way to improve the ways we learn and serve.
The second edition also includes many additions and changes from the first one. Ive updated the statistics and research as needed. And Ive incorporated some of the things Ive learned from additional reflection and interaction with people about this topic.
On the whole, Im encouraged by the direction short-term missions is moving. Growing numbers of groups are working hard to develop reciprocal, honoring relationships with the communities and churches they visit. Orientation and even debrief sessions have come a long way. And theres a spirit driving the short-term missions movement that appears much more thoughtful than what I observed when I first began researching and talking about this fascinating phenomenon in the contemporary church.
We still have much more we can do. Not all groups are equal. There are compelling, missiologically sound pictures of short-term missions happening in countless churches and organizations. And there are still plenty of appalling examples of seemingly thoughtless, adventure-seeking groups.
I invite you to join with me in taking a careful look at the world in which we live and zooming in on how short-term missions can be a part of what God is doing for such a time as this.
F irst and foremost, Im grateful to my friends scattered in places around the world who have confided in me the joys and challenges of interacting with the North American church, including me. One of my driving agendas in this book is to allow more North Americans to hear their voices.
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