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This Doctor of Ministry program development project was designed to explore biblical and missiological foundations for short-term missions (STM) and applied them to STM trips for students on the Andrews University campus. The project fieldwork examined four short-term mission tr…

In this dissertation, I address the need for post-trip training and discipleship following a short-term mission trip. To address this need, I reviewed the literature relating to short-term missions and transformative learning theory. In my review, I found that short-term mission…

There is an abundant amount of research on the negative aspects of short-term mission trips; however, there is a lack of literature that reflects the religiosity of college students and studies using religious assessments for the specific age range of 18-25. The current research…

Short-term missions [STM] has exploded in popularity in the past half-century. An estimated 1.6 million Americans participate in STM annually. Traditional Christian missionaries serve for a career or a lifetime. In contrast, STM volunteers travel (often to a different country) f…