User talk:DonaldRichardSands/Adventist Academy Missions

Overview
Many Adventist Academies conduct short-term mission programs. A short-term mission trip consists of an up to two weeks trip with focus on Christian help.

A-L

 * Andrews Academy
 * Auburn Adventist Academy


 * Bass Memorial Academy


 * Collegedale Academy, Tennessee


 * Forest Lake Academy


 * Georgia-Cumberland Academy


 * Loma Linda Academy

M-Z

 * Midland Adventist Academy
 * Orangewood (Day) Academy, Garden Grove, California.


 * Parkview Adventist Academy


 * Shenandoah Valley Academy

Resources

 * List of Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools
 * Short term mission
 * Search engine for Short term missions

Patterns

 * Build a church, do evangelism, run a VBS. (FLA)
 * Assist medical personnel
 * Work through a facilitator organization such as REACH, Maranatha, the People of Peru project, etc.
 * Conference organized field trips, eg. Central California Conference to New Orleans in response to the Arkansas/Louisiana Conference call for help.

Facilitator organizations

 * ACTS, Active Christians That Serve
 * ADRA
 * REACH
 * Maranatha
 * People of Peru project
 * Africa Mission Services

History of academy mission ventures
William Jamerson, Adventist Orange County youth director, led in Academy mission ventures to Central America beginning in 1966. It became an annual event.

Innovative programs:

 * Georgia Cumberland Academy:
 * Three annual mission trips are sponsored by the school.
 * - In October, GCA joins Madison Academy and Columbia Adventist Academy to serve the people in the Appalachian foothills of Liberty, Kentucky. They do various jobs such as building churches, school houses, and picnic shelters, painting, and fixing up homes in desperate need of repair.


 * - During the school's Spring Break in early March, a group of students travel to Central America to build churches and to offer evangelistic meetings.


 * - More recently the school has sponsored trips to Thailand and China, working on humanitarian projects with ADRA.


 * Andrews Academy


 * SOW SAFARI, Students who are interested in short-term mission experience sign up for the bi-annual SOW Safari: S for Service, O for Outreach, W for Witness, and "Safari" for the adventurous nature of the trip.
 * - Students work on building projects such as churches, orphanages and schools,
 * - They organize evangelistic meetings and Vacation Bible Schools.
 * - It started in 1987. The SOW Safari has gone to Peru, Mexico, Honduras and Chile, and other locations.
 * - 1986-1987, Mexico, Maranatha.
 * - 2003-2004, Honduras, REACH.
 * - 2008-2009, Chile


 * REACH collaboration


 * Maranatha collaboration


 * Auburn Adventist Academy
 * Repairing/renovating the Hawaii Conference's Kahili Mountain Park camp in Kauai.
 * This camp had become worn down. It was no longer able to be used for ministry.
 * Some of their projects included:
 * -   Remodeling their commercial kitchen (we will be enabling them to use their facility more efficiently)
 * -   Building an outdoor amphitheater so they can use it for various programs
 * -   Painting
 * -   Upgrading camp buildings and grounds
 * -   Providing ministry programming to both SDA churches on the island and their communities.
 * - To donate towards this trip or support, the campus Chaplain was available.
 * - Contact: Jennifer Woody, Campus Chaplain at jennifer.woody@auburn.org or 253-939-5000 ext. 229.

Conferences with short term mission programs

 * South-eastern California Conference

Facebook and other media

 * Forest Lake Academy Mission Trip blog
 * Facebook: Loma Linda Academy Mission Trip

Other organizations

 * Dove Mission International (DMI)
 * Youth with a mission
 * Operation Mobilisation
 * National Short Term Mission Conference
 * Fuller Youth Institute' Deep Justice Journeys 50 activities to move from mission trips to missional living.

Are there groups, other than faith groups, at the high school level which focus on international development?

Education

 * John Brown University Department of Construction Management

Manuals

 * An impressive work with a scholarly, reflective tone, adapted from the Chalmers Center at Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, Georgia. Some documents identify SAMS as the South American Missionary Society.
 * An impressive work with a scholarly, reflective tone, adapted from the Chalmers Center at Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, Georgia. Some documents identify SAMS as the South American Missionary Society.


 * Simple, practical, pastoral
 * Simple, practical, pastoral


 * A very thorough manual
 * A very thorough manual


 * Watts, Dorothy Eaton (1992). You can make a difference Global Mission education unit.

Research about mission trips

 * Friesen, R. G. (2004). The long-term impact of short-term missions on the beliefs, attitudes and behaviours of young adults (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved 2012-08-13, http://uir.unisa.ac.za/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10500/1890/thesis.pdf
 * Randall Gary Friesen, Doctoral of Theology (Missiology), University of South Africa, Promoter: Dr. Johannes Reimer, November 2004


 * ABSTRACT, This study investigated the impact that a number of variables within the short-term mission experience had on the beliefs, attitudes and behaviours of Anabaptist young adult mission participants in 24 concepts related to their relationship with God, the Church and world around them. Study participants were drawn from five different Anabaptist denominationally connected short-term mission programs ranging in length from one month to one year. This study used a quasi-experimental pre-test, post-test, follow-up design with non-equivalent groups as well as a non-randomized control group. The 116 study participants filled out a quantitative questionnaire prior to their short-term mission experience, after they returned from their mission experience and again one year after they returned. This longitudinal aspect of the research design measured the relative impact of variables within the short-term mission experience on participants over time. Methodological triangulation was employed that allowed for a variety of quantitative and qualitative tools to be used in better understanding the comparative impact of the short-term mission experience. The questionnaire, short essay response and interviews all incorporated concepts related to the international and cross-cultural impact of the short-term mission experience that have not been systematically analysed in this kind of study before. Response rates remained very high throughout the three stages of data collection and produced a number of significant findings. These findings included the positive impact during the mission experience of: an extensive pre-trip training experience, longer assignments, cross-cultural assignment location, relationally focused assignments, supportive families and churches, and correlation between repeat assignments and strong interest in future full-time mission work. While the positive impact of the short-term mission experience was significant, the post-trip regression in participants' beliefs, attitudes and behaviours one year after returning from the mission experience was also significant. This regression indicates that inadequate attention is being paid to participant re-entry, debrief and follow-up. Short-term mission agencies, participants and local churches need to view the discipleship impact of the short-term mission experience as ongoing. It is counter-intuitive to invest discipleship resources on returning short-term mission participants; however, the data indicates that is where the most significant discipleship challenges are found.