NTM

We are currently at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois in an incredible invite-only conference for mission, church, and academic leaders. The subject is short-term missions and the goal is to dialogue about how we can improve or re-design the current model of short term missions.

This picture shows Dr. Tite Tienou welcoming us the the conference. We have heard from many missiology experts about a variety of topics and have found much of the material very helpful.

Here is a taste of some of the topics and speakers:

• Short-Term Missions and the Global Reach of American Christianity
  Dr. Wuthnow, Director of the Center for the Study of Religion, and Chair of the Sociology Dept, Princeton
• From Short Term Missions to Global Discipleship: A Peruvian Case Study
  Dr. Hunter Farrell, World Mission for the Presbyterian Church
• Statistics in Short Term Missios- What we can learn from 1,000,000 STM short term trips
  Dr. David Armstrong, http://www.shorttermmissions.com/
• Short Term Missions from a Kenyan Pastor’s Perspective
  Rev. Oscar Muriu, Pastor, Nairobi Chapel, Kenya

And many more. Many sessions have been very challenging, encouraging, and thought-provoking. We will update you further with more information about the conference and some of the useful thoughts from it in the coming days.