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Symbols of Salvation

A chance discovery prepares a desperate young man to find hope in Christ.

A City Without Water

The barren landscape of a Middle Eastern desert helps one short-term worker understand the spiritual thirstiness of the lost—and Christ’s invitation to experience living water.

From Alcoholism to Evangelism: The Impact of Medical Missions

Short-term medical teams operate with local churches to heal communities in Eastern Europe and beyond.

How Small Churches Can Serve a Global God

Even small churches can impact the nations through short-term trips and partnership with missionaries and national believers.

Reasons for Doing Ministry as a Family

Serving together with your children can open unique doors for ministry, whether at home or on overseas missions trips.

Watch: Medical Missions Trips Open Closed Doors

Medical missions trips find encouraging success in opening doors previously closed to the gospel.

8 Looming Dangers of Short-Term Missions Trips

Short-term missions trips have vast potential as a ministry tool if they maximize benefits and avoid common pitfalls.

10 Ways Short-term Missions Trips Provide Value

Healthy short-term missions trips can produce long-term impact on the field and transform participants.

5 Keys to Hosting a Short-term Missions Team

These tips will help you lead short-term missions trips that are a blessing, not a burden, to your ministry.

Launch Point: Helping Transform Lives and Serve the Global Church

Short-term missions done well impacts lives for eternity and ignites a deeper passion for the Great Commission.

When Helping Hurts

Author Brian Fikkert shares why good intentions aren’t enough when serving the world’s poor.

Great Joy in Heaven

Lives are saved physically and spiritually through the partnership between an ABWE Launch Point team and a Paraguayan church.

Missions or Wanderlust?

We all need to be willing to ask ourselves what mundane obedience looks like before we ever attempt something big.

10 Ways to Identify and Develop Missionaries from Your Student Ministry

Your youth group can be a powerful missionary mobilization pipeline.

When Helping Works: Western Dependence in Uganda?

Sometimes, helping can hurt. But sometimes, it actually works. Dr. Michael Badriaki explains why.

Doing Short-Term Missions Responsibly

Jason Phillips explains how, as global travel resumes, we can do missions trips better.

Don’t Cancel Your Short-Term Missions Trip—Maximize It

When Christ is at the center, the benefits of short-term missions trips vastly outweigh the cons.