Source: The Chalmers Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many Western Christians\u2019 first engagement with cross-cultural ministry is through a short-term mission trip. When we go, though, we also need to commit to embodying healthy and dignifying ways of telling others about the trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We live in a \u201cpics or it didn\u2019t happen\u201d culture where every latte, sunset, or family gathering is fair game for a picture and a social media post. For many of us, it\u2019s how we allow friends and family to share in our day-to-day lives. But we need to be mindful of how these habits play out in short-term missions (and cross-cultural ministry settings more generally).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chalmers has created a social media guidelines sheet<\/a> you can share with your short-term teams. They also have a whole book on helping without hurting in short-term missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speaking of sharing our stories, see One Big Change to Make for Ethical Storytelling<\/a> (Nonprofit PRO) and Creating Change Through Marketing<\/a> (Lasting Change Podcast).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or maybe you want to learn ways to share Jesus stories with people who don\u2019t know him. All Nations has been doing webinars and workshops on that and now offers self-paced online courses<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: The Chalmers Center Many Western Christians\u2019 first engagement with cross-cultural ministry is through a short-term mission trip. When we go, though, we also need to commit to embodying healthy and dignifying ways of telling others about the trip. We live in a \u201cpics or it didn\u2019t happen\u201d culture where every latte, sunset, or family … Continue reading Article: Social Media Guidelines for Short-Term Missions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12960"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12984,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960\/revisions\/12984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}