Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions: Leader's Guide

With over 300,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation. This stand-alone resource applies the principles of that book specifically to short term missions.

Helping Without Hurting: Short Term MissionsLeader’s Guide is aimed at the preparation and debriefing of short-term missionaries. Accompanying Helping Without Hurting: Short Term Missions Participants’ Guide, it is an ideal resource for church leaders, missions pastors, and youth pastors who make short-term missions planning decisions and desire to prevent inadvertent harm as they enter materially poor communities.

With direction for designing STMs well in light of the principles of When Helping Hurt, practical examples from short-term trips to illustrate those principles, and suggested resources for further learning and implimentatin, this guide is an all-in-one manual for leaders. Plus, it shows the content of the participant’s guide with annotation and teaching notes to guide leaders as they facilitate sessions with participants.

• Short-Term Missions Workbook: From Mission Tourists to Global Citizens
• Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions With Cultural Intelligence
• When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself
• Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help, And How to Reverse It
• When Helping Hurts: The Small Group Experience: An Online Video-Based Study on Alleviating Poverty
• Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions: Participant's Guide
• Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence: A Practical Guide to Walking with Low-Income People
• Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn't the American Dream
• Foreign to Familiar: A Guide to Understanding Hot - And Cold - Climate Cultures
• On Mission: Devotions for Your Short-Term Trip