Contributions, challenges, and emerging patterns of short-term missions

It was not until the last decade that missiologists placed the short-term missions (STM) movement at the center of their research. As the initial wave of STM scholarship surfaced, research centered on measuring the impact of STM on participants. Later, attention shifted to unraveling the impact upon...

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Main Author: Twibell, Simone Mulieri (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2020]
In: Missiology
Year: 2020, Volume: 48, Issue: 4, Pages: 344-359
IxTheo Classification:CH Christianity and Society
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B sister-to-sister partnerships
B missionary trends
B reverse missions
B global partnerships
B Short-term missions
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Summary:It was not until the last decade that missiologists placed the short-term missions (STM) movement at the center of their research. As the initial wave of STM scholarship surfaced, research centered on measuring the impact of STM on participants. Later, attention shifted to unraveling the impact upon the host community. More recently, with the exponential growth of partnerships between congregations in the Global North and the South, researchers have focused on analyzing the prevalent dynamics and patterns of relationships that involve STM teams. This article unravels the impact of STM in terms of its contributions and challenges to the global missionary enterprise and describes emerging patterns, such as reverse STM and multicultural STM teams.
ISSN:2051-3623
Contains:Enthalten in: Missiology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0091829620937418