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Unit 1: The Short-Term Mission Trip
CourseIn Unit 1, you will explore the role of a short-term mission trip, identify how a STM can be a way to participate in God's mission, and evaluate the purposes and models for effective STM.
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Unit 2: Building & Training Your STM Team
CourseIn this unit you’ll gain access to practical tools and templates to help you build and train your short-term mission team effectively. Use these resources to shape your trip or to evaluate your existing approach.
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Unit 3: The STM Team Leader
CourseThis unit will prepare you to lead with Christlike character, mentor others, manage team dynamics, and navigate conflict effectively.
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Unit 4: The Stages of a Team
CourseIn this unit we will explore the different stages of a team, how to identify each stage and the role that we can take as leaders to manage the team in each stage effectively.
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Unit 5: Managing Your STM Team
CourseThis unit will help you intentionally prepare and craft a meaningful service experience for your STM team by exploring what to incorporate into the daily schedule as well as the practical logistics of managing a team.
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Unit 6: Debriefing Well
CourseIn this unit you will gain valuable tools, resources and techniques for debriefing and reflecting upon your short-term missions experience in all stages: before, during, and after.
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"If you've ever been frustrated by 'mission' that is reduced to 'trips', you'll be refreshed by Touch the World's approach.
The Missions Academy will equip your students to live out God's mission—not just for one week a year, but in their everyday lives."
"The Missions Academy is filling a critical gap. Through the high-quality courses they provide, Andrea and her team are changing the way those engaging in missions are growing in their knowledge, convictions and skills. Invest in what The Missions Academy has to offer you. It’s time and resources well spent!"
"We were truly blessed to have you come along side {our ministry}. It is awesome to see a team who has been well equipped and trained and with leaders (and quite frankly the whole team) who “get it”. As hosts, you made our jobs easy, and I know our staff benefitted from your team tremendously!"
"Touch The World's training has been one of the greatest tools in my youth ministry career. To walk with my students through this training, go on a trip with them, and use that the rest of the school year for discipleship and beyond. If you’ve engaged fully in {The Missions Academy} training, then you can no longer just walk down the street and look at people the same.”
I lead a young team of about 50 kids who have done missions both locally and globally and this training has helped us to grow and it has personally helped me to develop and prepare my team in a whole new dynamic way as it pertains to ministry and service to others both in our own neighborhoods and across the seas.
"As a youth pastor who values intentionality and a clear purpose behind the ministry I’m doing, I have been incredibly blessed to find a partner that operates that way as well. Every aspect was well thought-out and helped our group understand what missions is really about. For every mission trip we do in the future, I will be utilizing the mission training they offer.
I'm very thankful for the content and downloadable resources that this course has provided. I appreciate the instructor feedback from the discussions. I felt connected as a student knowing experienced instructors and STM leaders were sharing feedback and insights along the way.
I believe this course adequately equips future STM Team leaders. The course has excellent content, case studies, and resources that may be applied. I better appreciate the roles and responsibilities of being a team leader. It will be exciting, daunting, and challenging. But it's good to know what it will take and all that needs to be considered before saying, "yes" to being a team leader. Being an STM team leader goes beyond the trip. I greatly appreciate Missions Academy for this excellent certification course.
A dynamic and valuable mission trip resource for the novice and the veteran mission trip leader. Leaving this training encouraged, equipped, and empowered. I'd require it for any person applying to lead a trip for me.