most ministries impacting the world for jesus christ
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MOST MINISTRIES
IMPA
CTING T
HE WORLD
FOR JE
SUS CHRIS
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INTRODUCTIONS
Primary Team LeaderSecondary Team LeaderTeam Leader Trainee (if
there is one)Team Members
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MISSION OPPORTUNITIES SHORT TERM
MOST MINISTRIES APPLICATION
WEBPAGE
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WEBPA
GES
WHERE T
O FIN
D WHAT
INFO
RMATIO
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IDEOS
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APPLICATION WEBPAGE
http://www.mostministries.org/application_web_page
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WELCOME WEBPAGE
http://www.mostministries.org/welcome_web_page
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TRAVEL WEBPAGE
http://www.mostministries.org/travel_web_page
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CULTURAL WEBPAGE
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REENTRY WEBPAGE
http://www.mostministries.org/re_entry_web_page
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PROJE
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GENERAL SHORT
-TERM
INFO
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PRE-FIELD SECURITY MONITORING
• MOST Ministries monitors 4 security sites daily both pre-field and while you are on the field.
• Every team is registered with the State Department.
• Changes in security while you are on the mission field are passed on to the Team Leader and host.
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SAFETY AND RISK
• Do not resist a robbery attempt. Many criminals have weapons, and most injuries and deaths have resulted when victims have resisted.
• Technology-can draw attention to you and the group, putting the entire team at risk.
• Keep personal funds on your person-divided in 2 locations. Immediate spending cash at hand. Remainder of the money hidden. Do not leave cash in your room.
• In crowds keep your hand on your fanny pack. No purses! Keep passport in holder, hidden from view.
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• Do not carry values in your backpack.• Keep your Emergency Card with your passport
In case you are separated from the team. Information needed to fill out immigration forms.
• NEVER go anywhere alone.• Respect the instruction of the host on safety
issues-they know the area and you do not.• If someone grab an item or piece of luggage-
LET IT GO!• Keep all electronics out of view.• There is nothing that is irreplaceable except
you.
SAFETY AND RISK CONTINUED
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CRISIS MANAGEMENT PLAN
Plan covers the following:Personal CrisisHealth Crisis
Nursing Protocol written by a travel medicine doctor
Political CrisisNatural Disasters Sudden Death of a Team Member
Pre-field and On-Field Action Plan.
Both the leader and the CMA will carry to plan on the field.
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PASSPORT HOLDERS
•Use a Waist holder or Neck holder.•Keep your passport in a Ziploc bag to protect from moisture and perspiration .•Paperclip to hold travel papers in passport.
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PRAYER
Information available on the Welcome Webpage
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SERVANTHOOD BIBLE STUDY
The study is located:
Lessons 1-4 Welcome Webpage
Lessons 5-7 Travel Webpage
Lessons 8-11 Cultural Webpage
2 Optional Studies are also available on the Welcome Webpage
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JOURNALING
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REENTRY AND SHARING YOUR STORY
Be prepared to share
your story in…
30 second
3 minute
30 minute
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PERSONAL DEBRIEFERS
INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THE CULTURAL WEBPAGE
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TEAM HELPERS
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Medic
Crisis Management
Devotion Coordinator
Music
Music for church
Photographers
Cultural Coordinator
Prayer
Water Warden
Luggage Coordinator
Blogger
Others?
TEAM HELPERS
TEAM HELPERS
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Finance information
is located on the
Application Website
Final Payment Due
DATE
Contact Finance
Administrator at
(734) 994-7909 ext. 12
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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TIMELINE • Packing
meeting• Commissioning
service• Team Reunion• Presentation to
church(es)
Notify the Team Administrator with your date for church / organization presentation
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IMPORTANT DOCUMENTATION
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MISSIO
N TRIP
INFO
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PERSONAL HEALTH
• Bring all your OTC medications that you know work for you.
• Bring all prescriptions in their original packaging.
• Gatorade, Propel or Special K protein mixes.
• Snacks-healthy-protein.
• Immunizations up to date.
• Talking with the Team Medic.
• Yoghurt or Acidophilus
• Airborne or other immune boasting vitamins.
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PERSONAL HEALTH CONTINUED
Hand washing Hand sanitizer Hand wipes
Water bottles Seal is not broken Screw top preferred Ice only from purified water source
Peel all fruit and vegetables.30 minutes prior to eating you can chew a
couple ofPepto Bismo Tablets to coat stomach.
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PERSONAL HEALTH CONTINUED
For those who may be taking acid blockers:
Need to wash hands and sanitize more frequently.
Opt to discontinue taking for the trip.
Sun screen
Bug repellent
Hat or Visor
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PERSONAL MEDICATION CHANGES
Please contact the Team Administrator 1 month
prior to departure with any medication changes.
A reminder email will be sent 1 month prior to
departure-be looking for it.
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ON THE FIELD
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PROJECT LOCATIONS
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ON THE FIELD
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MAP OF LOCATION
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DRESS CODE
Ladies
Guys
Comfortable closed toed shoes for clinic times
Swimsuit-modest, no bikinis
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WEEK SCHEDULE
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DAILY SCHEDULE
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FLIGHT ITINERARY
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ELECTRICITY
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TOILETS
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TRAV
EL INFO
RMATIO
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• #-## checked bags• Free checked bag will be the MOST
team bag• Personal
• 1-## lbs. carry-on• 1-personal item
BAGGAGE
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PACKING TIPS-CARRY ON
• Pack your carry-on with everything you would need for the week if your suitcase got lost.
• Include at least one extra set of clothes.•All personal medications, pack a complete set in both your carry-on and checked bags.
•Snacks.•Camera
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• 1 set of clothes• OTC &
prescription medications
• Toiletries• Snacks• Empty refillable
water bottle
• Camera• Reading material• Small flashlight• Your
eyeglasses/contact lenses & supplies
• Malaria medication• Sunscreen & bug
repellent
CARRY-ON BAG CONTENTS
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CHECKED BAG
• ## Lbs. per bag• Include your address somewhere
inside the bag.• If you are traveling with someone
else divide your clothes – if one bag gets lost you still have clothes in the other persons bag.
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CHECKED BAG CONTENTS
Towel and washcloth (or nylon bath ball)
Snacks
Clothes
Extra water bottle or two
Complete supply of all prescription medications
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Please meet at the gate at ?????
Brief Meeting
Prayer and off we go…
MEETING AT AIRPORT
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CULTURE A
ND CULT
URE
SHOCK
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BUILDING BLOCKS OF CULTUREBuilding Blocks of Culture
Four building blocks are:• Concept of self-individualist and
collectivist.• Personal versus societal responsibility-
universalist and particularistic.• Concept of time-monochronic and
polychromic.• Locus of control-internal and external.
Building Blocks of Culture
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BUILDING BLOCKS OF CULTURE
Concept of self-individualist and collective
Individualist
•The smallest unit of survival
•Needs of self are satisfied before needs of a group
•Self sufficient
•More psychological and emotional distance form others
•Group membership is not essential to one’s identity
Collectivist
•Smallest unit of survival
•One’s identity is a function of one’s membership in a group
•Success and survival of the group insures well-being of individual
•Harmony of the group is stressed and valued
•More distance between group and non-group members
Building Blocks of Culture
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UniversalistAbsolutes across the board regardless of situationLay feeling s aside and look at situation objectivelyLife isn’t fair but it can be more fair by treating everyone the same
ParticularitstHow you behave in a given situation depends on the circumstanceTo be fair is to treat everyone as uniqueNo one expects life to be fairWhat is right in one situation may not be right in another
PERSONAL VERSUS SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY
Building Blocks of Culture
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Monochronic
•Time is a commodity and there is a limited amount of it
•Use time wisely and not waste it
•Time is the given and people are the variables
•Interruptions are a nuisance
Polychronic
•Time is limitless and there is always more time
•Time is the servant of people and is adjusted to suit the needs of people
•There is no such thing as an interruption
CONCEPT OF TIME-MONOCHRONIC AND POLYCHROMIC
Building Blocks of Culture
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Internal
•The locus of control is largely internal
•Very few givens in life
•There is no limit on what you can do or become
•You are responsible for what happens to you
•Life is what you do
External
•The locus of control is largely external
•There are limits beyond which one cannot go and must be accepted
•Your success is a combination of effort and good luck
•Life is what happens to you
LOCUS OF CONTROL-INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL
Building Blocks of Culture
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USING THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF CULTURE• To help you understand there is no one
view that is better
• To help you expect the differences
• To observe the positives of the host cultures
• Who would not want more time to spent with family and friends?
Building Blocks of Culture
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CULTURE SHOCK
Definition of CULTURE SHOCK
A sense of confusion and uncertainty sometimes with
feelings of anxiety that may affect people exposed to an
alien culture or environment without adequate
Preparation.
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DEPENDENCY
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GIFT GIVING AND DEPENDENCY
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3 TYPES OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION
1.Relief: Urgent and temporary provision of emergency aid to reduce immediate suffering from a natural or man-made crisis.
2.Rehabilitation: Seeks to restore people and their communities to the positive elements of their pre-crisis conditions.
3.Development: A process of on-going change that moves all the people involved – both the “helpers” and the “helped” – closer to being in right relationships with God, Self, Others, and the Rest of Creation.
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PATERNALISM
• Paternalism is the interference of a state or an individual with another person, against their will, and defended or motivated by a claim that the person interfered with will be better off or protected from harm – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• A system under which an authority undertakes to supply needs or regulate conduct of those under its control in matters affecting them as individuals as well as in their relations to authority and to each other – Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• Doing things for people that they can do for themselves - WHH
AVOID PATERNALISM!
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LANGUAGE
Practice common phrases
Key short-term mission word (don’t leave home without
it).
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CLOSING PRAYER
Lord, we come into your presence seeking a gracious blessing. But we dare to ask for an outrageous portion of Your grace. We ask that You not simply equip us, but that You chase us out into Your world.
Make us people of vision who look not in but out, not backward but forward, not down but up, not at what cannot be done but at what might be accomplished by Your Spirit.
Make us those who seek mountains and not valleys, narrow paths instead of wide and easy ways, sending us new places instead of resting places, starts instead of finishes, horizons instead of waysides, tomorrows instead of yesterdays.
Give us running shoes instead of slippers, alarm clocks instead of sleep switches, accelerators instead of brakes, sailboats instead of sandcastles.
Make us startle even ourselves with the power You give. For all we do is moved by Your breath, enveloped by Your Spirit, filled with the wind of Your grace, and resounding to Your glory and not ours.
“Give us wings to fly like eagles”
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up
wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
We pray in Jesus’ name.