Category Archives: Team Orientation/Training

Preparing for Panama

By Scott Pittman | Published: April 29, 2009

I asked Vincent Carmen, the Team Leader of Tates Creek Baptist Association Vision Team to share some thoughts about getting his team ready for Panama. (See Panama! post) Here’s what he had to share. Preparation   I think that it is essential for a team to be prepared well for their trip. We have put together [...]

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Applying the 5 Basic Questions to the “3-D” Phases

By Scott Pittman | Published: April 16, 2009

In my last post “Mission Trip Strategy: “3-D Ministry Phases,” I introduced a strategy development concept that uses three basic phases common to all ministry projects: Discovery, Development, and Deployment. In order to further develop those phases into specific plans, a simple process of applying five basic questions to each phase can be employed. Discovery [...]

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The First Mission Trip

By Scott Pittman | Published: April 7, 2009

Even though short-term missions is a relatively recent phenomenon, volunteers were being used by missionaries as early as the late 50s. The first-short term trip, however, happened long before that, and is recorded in Genesis, Chapter 3. Adam and Eve have just lost their innocence, and immediately feel shame. Somehow, they are aware that something awful has [...]

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Recruiting and Training Mission Teams

By Scott Pittman | Published: April 6, 2009

Free online training: Watch a complete presentation by Dr. Bobby Gilstrap on the topic of recruiting and training mission teams. Presented live at the North Central States Rally in Indianapolis on January 7, this session will help you obtain strategies and resources for recruiting mission teams, hosting vision tours, and preparing mission team leadership for [...]

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Witnessing in Another World

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 31, 2009

As a missionary in Brazil I was amazed how people could believe, profess, and practice things that were incompatible. It was illogical to me that someone could profess to believe in God while at the same time pray to a saint to gain penance or offer a sacrifice to Imanja, the goddess of the sea, [...]

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Top Ten Volunteer Mistakes

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 30, 2009

Top 10 Mistakes I’ve Seen Volunteers Commit: #10. Call the female of a missionary couple “the missionary’s wife” I actually remember a volunteer asking a female missionary if she would take a picture of him with “all the missionaries,” meaning all the male missionaries. The IMB appoints both husband and wife as missionaries, and they [...]

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Good Shot!

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 21, 2009

Action and eyeballs among the secrets to memorable photos. by Guest Blogger, Larry Brannin,  KBC Media Production Associate Got your bags packed? Check! Bible? Check! Papers and notebooks? Check! Wallet? Check! The list goes on. You’re almost ready to leave on your mission trip. But, what have you forgotten? Your camera maybe? Like so many [...]

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