Expect the Unexpected: | Emergencies and Short-Term Trips
These are all true stories experienced by CULTURELink-trained teams: A team member ministering in Eastern Europe falls two floors from scaffolding at their work site, breaking an ankle. Several members of a team in Southeast Asia experience severe food poisoning the night before the team is to commence in-country service to more than one hundred nationals. A salmonella infection manifests…
Cultural Research Ideas
Cultural research is a vital part of your pre-field training. Even if your team plans detailed and meaningful activities, a lack of cultural understanding and sensitivity can severely diminish your team’s impact. In our training seminars, we explain what it means to be cross-cultural and detail how to incorporate cultural research into your team training. If you feel intimidated by…
The Value of a Vision Trip
Different organizations may use different terms—vision trip, scout team, preview, or exploratory trip—but all are essentially the same thing. A vision trip is commissioned or scout team sent for a threefold purpose, to: Make observations about the people (both ministry partners and nationals) and place of the potential trip. Participate in practical activities to better understand how and why things…