Re-Imagining Short-Term Missions

Forrest Inslee
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Re-Imagining Short-Term Missions

In this podcast we take an honest look at short-term mission practices, and talk frankly about unhelpful models even as we dream of healthy alternatives. In this podcast we look critically at the top-down, one-way, unbalanced relationship dynamics between sending organizations and the communities that receive their teams. Instead, understanding that all churches in every culture are broken in some way, we try to re-imagine how churches in cross-cultural partnership can serve one another in mutuality service. The essential aim of this podcast is to consider new ways for Christ-followers in every part of the world to collaborate, working together to meet the world's deep needs.

  1. JUL 20

    Race, Ethnicity, and Missions: Miriam Adeney on Missions Drop Podcast

    Recently, one of the book’s contributors, Dr. Miriam Adeney, was interviewed on the Missions Drop podcast. In this interesting conversation with Emily Simmons, Miriam shares about the importance of diversity and unity in the church. She pays particular attention to issues of race and ethnicity, and talks about how those issues can have a huge impact on the effectiveness of mission efforts. The Missions Drop podcast has graciously allowed us to re-release this episode as part of the Re-Imagini...

    21 min

  2. MAY 6

    Orphanage Voluntourism: David Sanon and Steph DeLuca Robinson on the Upwardly Dependent Podcast

    Recently, two of the of the Re-Imagining Short-Term Missions book contributors, David Sanon and Steph DeLuca Robinson, were asked to join a conversation with Dr. Lauren Pinkston on the Upwardly Dependent podcast. In this episode of the Re-Imagining Short-Term Missions podcast, you’ll hear an abridged version of that conversation, entitled The Other Side of the Story: A Caregiver & Resident Share Their Orphanage Tourism Experiences with David Sanon & Steph DeLuca Robinson. In cas...

    49 min

  3. MAR 27

    New Approaches to Short-Term Missions: Nathan Nelson on the Broken Banquet Podcast

    In this episode we’ll be featuring a podcast interview of Nathan Nelson, one of the authors featured in that book. Recently Ashley Goad and Wil Bailey asked Nathan to be on their podcast, called the Broken Banquet, to talk about Nathan’s work in missions, missions pastoring, and about his writing. You’ll find a link to the original interview in the shownotes for this episode, but for our purposes here is an abridged version of that conversation.Broken Banquet PodcastBethany Community ChurchBe...

    56 min

  4. MAR 16

    Thinking Global, Doing Justice in Short-Term Missions: Why care about the wider world?

    Recently, Brandon Stiver and Phil Darke asked Forrest Inslee to be a guest on their podcast, called Think Global, Do Justice. Among other things, they about the book he co-edited calledRe-Imagining Short-Term Missions. They also talked about other interesting things like innovative missions practices at Bethany Community Church in Seattle, and even the story of how Forrest came to adopt my daughter when he was a missionary in Turkey. So here is an abridged version of that conversation with Ph...

    16 min

  5. 04/11/2023

    Short-term missions for mutual transformation, with Jay Matenga

    What would happen if short-term mission trips were built around values of mutual transformation—instead of the usual top-down, one-way dynamic of “service”? What if Christians in the global north really believed that their brothers and sisters in the global south could help them understand God and the world in new, liberating ways? Or that short-term trips could be opportunities for visitors and hosts alike to be changed and challenged by one another through mutually respectful, coequal excha...

    30 min

  6. 04/04/2023

    Short-term missions for long-term relationship, with Robert Katende & friends

    What if short-term missions were focused on long-term objectives? What if short-term teams began to measure their success not on the scope of the work projects completed or the number of people evangelized, but instead on the establishment of authentic, collaborative, long-term relationships between communities of Christ followers in different locations around the globe? And might it be possible for Christ followers in wealthier nations to become humble enough to acknowledge their need ...

    25 min

  7. 03/21/2023

    Motives for Mission: Confronting our biases and fears, with CJ Quartlbaum

    What happens when people who participate in short-term missions do it for the wrong reasons? How much damage can be done by short-term teams when they haven’t taken an honest inventory of their own fears and prejudices—when they haven’t done the necessary heart-work in advance?In this episode, we’ll look for answers to these questions as we talk to CJ Quartlbaum—a writer and speaker from Brooklyn, NY. His current work focuses on theology, culture, and personal development—and in particular, h...

    29 min

  8. 03/14/2023

    The WHY of short-term missions: Being honest about motives, with Dr. Greg Burch

    Why do people go on short-term mission trips? Are the things we do in the name of “missions” actually reflective of the Great Commission? If we’re honest, how many of these trips are really more about the personal transformation of those who are sent? And if we admit that our primary motive for short-term missions has to do with personal transformation, is that motive actually a bad thing? In this episode Forrest talks with Dr. Greg Burch, professor and chair of Global Studies at ...

    24 min
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In this podcast we take an honest look at short-term mission practices, and talk frankly about unhelpful models even as we dream of healthy alternatives. In this podcast we look critically at the top-down, one-way, unbalanced relationship dynamics between sending organizations and the communities that receive their teams. Instead, understanding that all churches in every culture are broken in some way, we try to re-imagine how churches in cross-cultural partnership can serve one another in mutuality service. The essential aim of this podcast is to consider new ways for Christ-followers in every part of the world to collaborate, working together to meet the world's deep needs.

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  • Creator
    Forrest Inslee
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2024 Re-Imagining Short-Term Missions
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