How to collect gifts to fund short-term missions legally.

Sophie Warren's short-term missions experience led to her career as a Nigerian university professor.

Here's how to find joy while financing your trip.

Learn more about your host country and take practical steps to prepare.

What are the major differences between your culture and the one you're going to?

Understand the risks and protect your missions trips.

Planning for unexpected events on short-term missions here and abroad.

When the pastor becomes a missions force, the whole church is affected.

Important travel considerations to make before you hit the road.

Traveling to different countries demands special preparation.

Pulling off the family mission experience.

A list of first-aid items every team should pack.

Five sessions will help your team prepare for your trip, navigate the challenges of cross-cultural relationships and team dynamics, and return with lasting relationships and personal transformation.

A little caution goes a long, long way.

Jenny Collins on the importance of follow-up.

Youth pastors lead the bulk of short-term mission teams, yet they seem uninterested in mission training. How can leaders in the STM community help?

I learned a lesson recently while driving to work. Light snow fell as I turned onto the church drive, my first meeting set to begin in less than a minute.

Richard Baxter wrote, preached, taught, and visited his way to become the model pastor.