How to prepare? What hazards to avoid? What opportunities to take advantage of? The authors are InterVarsity Christian Fellowship veteran leaders of a dozen two-month mission trips to different parts of the world. Their book is full of field-tested advice, hilarious stories, and hard-won lessons.

This book addresses:

-- establishing partnerships with sending churches

-- learning from our hosts in the countries we visit

-- becoming culturally sensitive

-- overcoming the shortcomings of short-term missions

-- growing a servant spirit

-- learning to trust God, our hosts and ourselves

-- facing injustice with realism and compassion

-- speaking about Jesus in a way that makes sense in a new culture

-- dealing with reentry culture shock when we get back home