Short Term Missions Guidance to Support Orphans and Vulnerable Children (PDF Download)

The Short-Term Missions: Guidance to Support Orphans and Vulnerable Children is a comprehensive resource that provides guidance and better practice standards for short-term missions to ensure positive outcomes for vulnerable children, their families, and their communities. This resource has been created for churches, mission agencies, faith-based organizations, donors, institutions of higher learning, and others who are interested in enhancing and supporting care for orphans and vulnerable children through sending or joining short-term mission teams. It encourages short-term missions to shift their focus from engaging with children in residential care centers to engagement in activities that support family-based care.

The Guidance is built on best practices in child protection, missiology, and cross-cultural engagement. In producing this resource, Faith to Action sought recommendations and input from more than 50 stakeholders—including, practitioners engaged in sending and receiving short-term missions, pastors, mission leaders, faith-based organizations, and academic leaders. Twenty-eight organizations have endorsed the Guidance, including the Standards of Excellence (SOE) in Short-Term Mission (see complete list below).

Short-Term Missions Webinar with Steve Corbett

In this webinar, professor Steve Corbett, author of When Helping Hurts and Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions, helps to reconsider how the trips we take can be even better – for those we hope to serve and for travelers.

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