Links

• Locating an Opportunity
• Articles and Networking
• Researching Countries
• Researching People Groups
• Training Resources
• Travel Health, Passports, Visas, Etc.
• Associations and Conferences

Disclaimer: ShortTermMissions.com does not endorse the websites linked below. ShortTermMissons.com is not responsible for the content found on these websites. The links are solely provided as a helpful resource.

Locating an opportunity:

• AGRM’s Short-term Urban Missions Directory
  Inner city missions opportunities for groups & individuals throughout North America.
• The Finishers Project
  A service designed to provide adult Christians information and challenge for processing and discovering ministry opportunities in the missions enterprise – short-term, part-time or as a second-career.
• globalopps.org
  A missions service agency which equips mission-committed Christians to serve as bi-vocational tentmakers and assists them in finding international jobs.
• MissionFinder.org
  Extensive directory of links and ministry opportunities categorized by skill. Great for finding medical, professional, orphanage, and teaching opportunities. Offers free personal assistance. Search by keyword.
• Oscar: The UK Information Service for World Mission
  Your gateway to useful UK information, advice and resources.
• RightNow.org: Serve Now
  Brief descriptions of several thousand opportunities offered by 75 mission organizations. Search by age, location, timeframe, skill set, agency, or dates. Offers free personal assistance.
• ShortTermMissions.com’s Search Tool for Mission Trips
  Full details on over a thousand one-week to three-year short-term mission opportunities from over 100 mission organizations. Search by length, country, region, start month, agency, or keyword.
• urbana.org’s MSearch
  Post your resume or search mission agency profiles, options, and ministry openings of mission agencies that exhibited at Urbana. Offers details on career and short-term mission opportunities.

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Articles and Networking:

• Mission Issues Brochures
  In depth articles focused on common concerns or questions a person interested in missions may have.
• Howard Culbertson’s Missions Article Collection
  Training materials for people organizing and participating in short-term mission trips.
• Mission Frontiers
  Full text stories from the bulletin of the U.S. Center for World Mission.
• Strategic Network Knowledge Base
  An archive of thousands of articles and news that directly impact the Great Commission purpose of the church.
• Urbana.org’s Articles
  Top quality articles on a wide range of topics related to missions.

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Researching countries:

• Altapedia.com
• CIA World Factbook
• countrywatch.com
  CountryWatch.com is an information provider for schools, universities, libraries and individuals who need up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world and for the public and private sector organizations with global operations and interests.
• The Library of Congress Country Studies
  The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world and examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
• lonelyplanet.com
  Lonely Planet’s online guide to the world.
• virtualtourist.com
  The Premium Online Travel Resource. Learn from other Travelers and share your Travel Knowledge. Chat, Discussion Forums, Travelogues, Trip Reports, Photos.

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Researching people groups:

• Asia Harvest
  Profiles for Asian unreached people groups.
• Joshua Project
  Provides a complete list of the world's ethnic people groups with full profiles, country specific data, and basic status indicators.
• The Network for Strategic Missions
  Communities, articles/news, prayer, mailing lists and discussion for specific people groups.

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Training resources:

• askamissionary.com
  Provides answers from missionaries to frequently asked questions on topics like: support-raising, selecting an agency, the call, tentmaking, training, and singles/families concerns.
• NVision
  A powerful two day seminar designed to ignite vision and passion for the World Christian Movement. Can be used as pre-field short-term missions training for groups.
• Go Prepared
  Short-term mission training videos covering a wide range of subjects.
• PeopleRaising.com
  Fundraising tools. One of which is a guide for raising support for a short-term mission trip.
• The Journey Deepens Retreats
  Weekend retreats to help prospective missionaries explore what it is like to be a missionary, discover whether a missionary or sender role is God's fit, and connect with mission agencies.
• Perspectives on the World Christian Movement
  A course designed to help believers learn about God's heart for all nations and how believers worldwide can play an active role in the Great Commission.
• Urbana’s online version of Send Me!
  A preparatory global workbook designed to help you work through the process of charting a course from where you are to where God would have you be.

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Travel Health, Passports, Visas, Etc.:

• US State Department: Passport Services and Information
  Everything you need to know about how and where to get a US passport. Includes downloadable PDF applications as well as information on how to obtain a copy of your birth certificate.
• CDC Travelers’ Health
  Official U.S. government health recommendations for traveling. Provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
• Travisa.com
  A commercial service that helps a person get passports and visas quickly. Includes visa information for every country.
• Yahoo! Finance: Currency Conversion
  An easy to use currency converter. Simply select the currency you are converting from and the currency you are converting to.

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Associations and Conferences

• The Alliance for Excellence in Short-Term Mission
  
• Fellowship of Short-Term Mission Leaders
  An annual conference (usually in October) for short-term mission leaders designed to promote increasingly effective short-term mission.
• National Short-Term Mission Conference
  An annual conference (usually in January) designed to train, equip, and mobilize teams for short-term missions.
• U.S. Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Missions
  
• Best Practices for Christian Short-Term Healthcare Missions

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The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest fields.
~ Matthew 9:37-38