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245187 Disc Missions ins 9/6/07 1:04 PM Page 118 9 VOLUNTEERISM IN MISSION Objectives Your study of this chapter should help you to: • Define short-term mission • Recognize the importance of volunteerism in the church • Evaluate the benefits of volunteerism to both the individual and the church • Identify what contributes to volunteer effectiveness Key Words to Understand short-term mission volunteerism reverse mission 118 Standards of Excellence tentmakers missional effectiveness
245187 Disc Missions ins 9/6/07 1:04 PM Page 119 Volunteerism in Mission 119 In the western United States, a layperson gave a missionary a ride to the airport after a local church’s weekend missionary convention. The layman doing the driving had managed several successful business ventures, chaired a corporation, and been president of a bank. On the way to the airport, he talked about wanting to walk away from that part of his life and become a volunteer in overseas mission work. That layman had been a staunch supporter of missions through his prayers and financial giving. He now wanted to give a season of his life to global missions. Volunteer opportunities in the global mission movement have attracted believers of all ages. Large numbers of young people go on short-term mission trips during times they are not in school. Adults of all ages who have prayed for and given money to missions efforts are jumping at chances to do hands-on mission work for brief periods. The modes of volunteer mission service are varied: weekend trips across a nearby border, one- to three-week trips, college students participating in spring break and summer-long events, people spending six months to two years or more serving as individuals or couples (rather than in large groups), and a hybrid kind of volunteer service called tentmaking. These short-term mission participants cross cultural and geographic boundaries to use God-given skills and talents to do construction, teach English, set up computer centers, work in orphanages, fit eyeglasses, tutor missionary children, and help with disaster relief, evangelism, leadership training, and medical work. Involvement in volunteer short-term mission, as distinct from longer career service, began expanding just after the middle of the 20th century. Facilitating the growth of short-term mission have been global communication systems and the ease and speed of air travel. Short-term mission, regarded for a while with suspicion by mission professionals, is now a strategic component of world evangelism programs. Many mission agencies have volunteerism offices with career missionary teams often having someone assigned to supervise short-term mission groups and individuals coming to their field. Mission professionals have so fully embraced short-term mission that volunteer experience has virtually become a prerequisite for career missionary service. In 1970, you could count the number of youth groups doing shortterm missions on one hand. Now it has become a standard feature for thousands of youth groups. 1 —Seth Barnes Roger Peterson, longtime head of the Fellowship of Short-Term Mission
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