Description
What’s in the Team Leader’s Manual
The Team Leader’s Manual is your roadmap for guiding a team through the discipleship process in the Team Member’s Manual. Every section gives step-by-step instructions that make preparation easier and training deeper, with tips for interactive meetings, including virtual ones. You’ll also find tools to set up your trip, plan with your host, and help your team keep growing long after they come home.
It has five sections:
1. Leader’s Orientation: Our whole approach to trip leadership in one word: discipleship.
2. Short-Term Missions Impact: A win-win-win approach that serves senders, goers, and hosts.
3. The Seven-Step Process: A guide through the full trip cycle, so you know when to publicize, when to select your team, when to begin training, and what real follow-up looks like. The seven steps are:
- Trip Determination
- Trip Publicity
- Team Selection
- Pre-Field Training
- Sender Involvement
- The Trip
- Re-Entry and Follow-Up
4. Training Sessions: Devotions, objectives, room set-up, materials, team-building ideas, and assignments for all ten sessions.
5. Appendices: Example ministry roles, team policies, debriefing help, emergency issues, and insurance and travel guidance.
What’s New in this Edition
- Guidance for virtual team meetings
- Refreshed Seven-Step Process and Short-Term Missions Impact sections
- Language that fits domestic (U.S.) and non-Western teams
- A new version of the cross-cultural questionnaire
- Stronger “What’s next?” ideas for returning team members
- Clearer application steps, tighter stories, and more tools for leaders and senders
What Hasn’t Changed
- A systematic, interactive process before, during, and after the trip
- Great experiences for goers, deep impact for senders, and a servant’s posture toward hosts
- Devotions with spiritual depth in every session
- Thorough instructions for meetings and team building
- The focus on making disciples of those who make disciples of all nations
