Description
What’s in the Team Member’s Manual
The Team Member’s Manual guides each person on your team through ten training sessions that match the Team Leader’s Manual. Each session includes devotions, practical articles, team-building activities, worksheets, and debriefing questions. Your team grows in cross-cultural understanding, unity, and humility, so they serve well and come home transformed.
The 10 training sessions are:
1. Getting Started: Long-Term Engagement and Vision, Pre-Field Paperwork, Prayer and Financial Support Discovery
2. Cultural Research: Exploring the Territory, Conducting Cultural Research, Facing Cultural Giants
3. Becoming Cross-Cultural: Cross-Cultural Sensitivity, The Attitude of Christ Jesus, Understanding Worldview, Culture Shock, and Cultural Disposition
4. Ministry Preparation: A Humble Spirit, Your Spiritual Story, Sharing Through an Interpreter, Language Learning, Team-Specific Ministry
5. Team Building: One in Spirit and Purpose, Handling Team Conflict, Team-Building Simulations, Team Policy Development
6. Travel, Packing, and Health: Travel Lightly, Living Sacrificially, Heart of Traveling, Jet Lag, Packing List and Travel Tips, Health Guidelines
7. Final Countdown: Reflections on Servanthood, Overcoming Fear, Last-Minute Reminders
8. Living the Experience: Going Into All the World, Names of God, Culture Shock Revisited, Preparing to Say Goodbye, Living the Experience Journal
9. Debriefing and Re-Entry: An End and a Beginning, The Five-Step Debriefing Process, Top Ten Re-Entry Fantasies, Understanding Re-Entry, Sharing Your Story
10. Home and Looking Forward: An Eternal Perspective, Developing a World Vision, Biblical Heroes, Next Steps
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
