Deep Justice Journeys Leader's Guide: 50 Activities to Move from Mission Trips to Missional Living 9780310286035

When students participate in short-term mission work, parents and youth leaders hope the experience of serving others will be transformative. But for mission work to make a real impact, leaders and students need to spend more time before, during, and after their service processing and preparing for their experiences. This curriculum and student journal helps leaders prepare students for what to expect on their mission trip, allows students to reflect upon their experiences, and enables them to genuinely debrief. Students will engage in learning exercises that help them gain new insights about themselves, their relationship with God, their teammates, and the world we're called to love and serve. These steps ensure short-term mission work that has a deeper effect on students and on those they serve, and helps students apply what they have learned in the mission field to their own lives. Also included are ideas to help get parents and the church engaged in the youth ministry's short-term mission work.Editorial ReviewsReviewI whole-heartedly recommend this to any youth ministry who's serious about making a Kingdom difference among the marginalized of our world!   April Diaz, NewSong Church --youthspecialties.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=585&products_id=1858We are crazy about Deep Justice Journeys...if I were King of Short Term Missions, this would be required reading to help you prepare for working in a different culture. --amorblog.org/2009/09/with-our-stamp-of-approval/About the AuthorDr. Kara E. Powell is executive director at the Fuller Youth Institute and a faculty member at Fuller Theological Seminary. She has authored or co-authored several books, including Sticky Faith, Essential Leadership, Deep Justice in a Broken World, and Help! I'm a Woman in Youth Ministry. She is the general editor for The Fuller Youth Institute E-Journal and regularly speaks at conferences and seminars. She lives with her husband and three children in Pasadena, California. SPANISH BIO: Kara Powell es profesora y directora ejecutiva del Centro para la familia y el ministerio juvenil del Seminario Teologico Fuller. Es autora y coautora de un sinnumero de libros, incluyendo Liderazgo esencial y Sexo del bueno. Es editora general del diario Fuller Youth Institue E-Journal y con frecuencia da charlas en conferencias y seminarios en temas de jovenes. Reside en Pasadena, California con su esposo y sus tres hijos.Brad M. Griffin is the associate director of the Fuller Youth Institute, where he develops research-based training for youth workers and has co-authored Sticky Faith: Youth Worker Edition and Deep Justice Journeys. A native Kentuckian, Brad now lives in Pasadena with his wife, Missy, and their three children. After more than fifteen years in youth ministry, he now volunteers at his church.