Before You Pack Your Bag, Prepare Your Heart
Author: Cindy Judge
#1 best-seller in the entire short-term mission field, and for a very good reason. Its thoughtful, relevant 12-lesson Bible study challenges short-termers to prepare their hearts before packing their bags:
as servants, with cultural sensitivity, and as team players. Its spiral binding allows for easy note-taking and journaling wherever you are (at home and overseas).
Everyone a Missionary
Authors: Various
Publisher: Harvest Mission International, Inc.
Discovering Your Place in God’s Mission’ is a great tool for small group Bible studies or for personal spiritual growth.
Some of the articles you will find in the book include:
• Everyday Missionaries - Jeanne Burger
• The Local Congregation Is The Hope Of The World - Larry Merino
• Why Won’t THEY Change? - Leta Brown
• A Personal Mission Plan - Larry Merino and Jeanne Burger
• Enlisting, Equipping, and Sending Mission Teams - Michael Gibson
• You Brought Us The Greatest Gift - Jeanne Burger
• Thinking Clearly About God’s Mission - Larry C. Merino
Mission Trip Prep Kit Leader's Guide
Author: Kevin Johnson
The Mission Trip Prep Kit contains all you need to prepare your students for an unforgettable cross-cultural experience - and tools to debrief them after they've returned to their worlds.
In this leader's guide, you'll receive not only the rationale, the how, and the logistics of planning and pulling off a missions trip, but, four pre-trip teaching sessions that will help your students:
* Assess their expectations, their fears, their motivations
* Adjust their perceptions of the culture they'll be working in
* Improve their emotional and spiritual stamina for living for a week or a month
in a very different world from their own
* Practice the skills and attitudes (teamwork, servanthood, Christ-centeredness)
they'll need for a missions trip
Mission Trip Prep Kit Student Journal
Author: Kevin Johnson
Wherever your destination, this journal pretty much says it all. It contains all you need to understand what you're learning on your trip, to digest and incorporate your experiences so they become part of you - and maybe even have some serious fun while you're doing all that spiritual stuff.
Inside these pages, you'll receive Devotional Bible readings and studies... reflective questions that get you thinking about the trip ahead or behind you... and, of course, journaling opportunities for expressing yourself before, during and after the trip.
Where There Is No Dentist
Author: Murray Dickson
Publisher: The Hesperian Foundation
The author uses straightforward language and careful instructions to explain how to: examine patients; diagnose common dental problems; make and use dental equipment; use local anesthetics; place fillings; and remove teeth. There is also a special chapter on oral health and HIV/AIDS, which provides the dental worker with a detailed, well-illustrated discussion of the special problems faced by people living with HIV/AIDS, and appropriate treatment.
Where There Is No Doctor
A Village Health Care Handbook
Author: David Werner
Publisher: The Hesperian Foundation
Where There Is No Doctor is more than a book on first aid. It covers a wide range of things that affect the health of the villager - from diarrhea to tuberculosis, from helpful and harmful home remedies to the cautious use of certain modern medicines. Special importance is placed on cleanliness, a healthy diet, and vaccinations. The book also covers in detail both childbirth and family planning. Not only does it help readers realize what they can do for themselves, but it helps them recognize which problems need the attention of an experienced health worker. The book is for the villager who lives far from medical centers, the village storekeeper or pharmacist, the teacher is a rural school, the village health worker and mothers and midwives.
Where Women Have No Doctor
A Health Guide for Women
Authors: A. August Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell,
and Katharine Shapiro
Publisher: The Hesperian Foundation
Combines self-help medical information with an understanding of the ways poverty, discrimination, and cultural beliefs limit women's health and access to care. Developed with community-based groups and medical experts from more than 30 countries, Where Women Have No Doctor is an essential resource for any woman who wants to improve her health, and for health workers who want more information about the problems that affect only women, or that affect women differently from men.
(Click on picture of book to learn more.)