General

STEMPress provides Short Term Missions resources including leaders’ preparation, student resources. http://stemintl.org/publications

Short-Term Missions Preparation & Field Guide: Leadership Handbook, Daryl Smithgall (Minneapolis: STEM Press). Provides a framework for mission trip preparation that helps you make use of proven processes for getting a group ready and arrangements made. Topics include leading a team, timeline for preparing, budget and finances, scheduling, checklists and other to dos, team training, sharing your testimony, journaling, debriefing, music aids, and 60 pages of helps and checklists. Participant Handbook sold separately.

Maximum Impact Short-term Mission Roger Peterson, Gordon Aeschliman and R. Wayne Sneed. (Minneapolis: STEM Press, 2003). From theological and historical foundations to the practical ‘how-tos’ of short-term mission.
Mission Trip Prep Kit Leader's Guide. Kevin Johnson (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003). 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, with 4 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, servant hood, Christ-centeredness) they’ll need for a missions trip.

And to make sure your trip’s goals are accomplished and the benefits stick around for the long haul, this book includes 2 POST-TRIP SESSIONS that will help you DEBRIEF your students, ease them back into their own worlds, CELEBRATE with them, and make missions and ministry part of their EVERYDAY LIVES WITH JESUS.

Emercy's Short-term Missions Toolbox – CD with resources for the short-term trip including:
• Team member application templates
• Fundraiser ideas and worksheets
• Team member handbook templates
• Passport application forms
• Stock photos & Clip-art
• Team Leader Planning workbook
• World Health Information
• Pack lists
• Drama & Mime Skits
• Team Meeting Outlines

Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions 2nd Edition (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 2001) A sound theological foundation for missions, but much more than that - an impassioned devotional call to be either senders and goers.

A Mind for Missions: Ten Ways to Build Your World Vision. Paul Borthwick (Colorado Springs: Navpress 1987) How to develop into a "world Christian" and encourage interest in missions in your family and congregation.

Eternity in Their Hearts. Don Richardson (Regal Books 1984) A study of the way God has prepared every culture for the Gospel. Don Richardson takes his experience in New Guinea (Peace Child) as a missionary where he discovered a cultural hinge to use in explaining the Gospel and shows how every culture has an historical connection with the Gospel.

The Essential Guide to the Short Term Mission Trip by David C. Forward Moody Publishers; Spiral edition (January 1998)

Mack & Leeann's Guide to Short-Term Missions by J. Mack Stiles, Leeann Stiles 192 pages Intervarsity Press; (September 2000)
Stepping Out: A Guide to Short Term Missions by Ywam Publishers 216 pages Crown Ministries Intl; (September 1996)

Successful Mission Teams: A Guide for Volunteers by Martha Vancise 240 pages New Hope Publishers; (June 1, 1998)

Vacations With A Purpose: A Handbook for Your Short-Term Missions Experience and A Planning Handbook for Your Short-Term Missions Team by Chris Eaton, Kim Hurst (both 1993) David C. Cook Publishing Company

Biographies of Missionaries

Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret (Chicago: Moody Press, 1989 also available for download free at http://www.ccel.org/t/taylor_jh/secret/home.html)– tells how Taylor prepared himself to trust God in China and how God used him.

Through Gates of Splendor Elizabeth Elliott – The story of Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Pete Fleming and Jim Elliot’s attempts to reach the Waorani Tribe in the jungles of Ecuador.

The Heavenly Man Paul Hattaway (Monarch Books, 2003) writes the story of Brother Yun’s development of China’s house church movement and the persecution he experienced.

Student Preparation

Before You Pack Your Bags, Prepare Your Heart (Wheaton: Campfire Resources, Inc. 2005). A Twelve Day Journal to help individuals consider issues they will face on the field. Includes a trip journal to use during the overseas experience.

Operation World Patrick Johnstone, Jason Mandryk, Robyn Johnstone. (Gabriel Resources; 21st edition, September 2001). The prayer guide for world missions that covers each nation with prayer challenges, mission work in country, needs. Great to use to gather information on your country for the team.