Go Prepared Skills Set
Topic: Recruitment
"Why Should I Go?"
Brief Overview:
"Why Should I Go?" will help recruit teams or individuals by showing how God uses ordinary people in extraordinary ways.
Some of the featured guest trainers include:
- Dr. Mark Rutland - President, Oral Roberts University
- Michael Berg - Southeast Director, YWAM
- Tim Kuck - President, Teams Commissioned for Christ International; COO, Regal Boats
- Dr. Steve Beam - President, Missionary Ventures
Video concludes with a challenging music video set to Wayne Watson's "For Such A Time As This."
Critically Important Subjects:
This DVD will help recruit team members and answer questions for parents and family members, show how short-term missions influence the lives of individuals, and tell some of the rewarding activities team members do on the mission field and how it affects them. Everyone should have the experience of a short-term mission trip once in their lifetime.
Target Audience:
Teams or individuals: This DVD will open eyes and hearts to the need, and stress the rewards, of short-term missions.
Church gatherings or church leaders: This DVD is an excellent resource for the church and its leaders to share the vision and impact of short-term missions.
Practical Uses: How can these videos be used to help you get results?
Small groups and individuals: Short-term missionaries can use this DVD at small groups, dinners, and parties along with their own testimonies. It can also be sent home with individuals or families to watch.
Large groups: Team leaders and/or members having returned from the field can share their own testimonies and finish by showing this DVD.
Topic: Churches
"It Changed My Church Forever"
Brief Overview:
"It Changed My Church Forever!" motivates churches, both large and small, to participate in short-term missions with powerful testimonies from ministers and church leaders who share their experiences on the impact short-term missions has had to their churches.
Some of the featured guest trainers include:
- Pastor Dan Betzer - First Assembly of God, Fort Myers
- Rev. James Loftin - Founder and President, FollowOne International; Founding Director, Friends4One
- Rev. Dick McClain - President, The Mission Society/Global Focus Ministries
- Dr. Mark Rutland - President, Oral Roberts University
Critically Important Subjects:
This DVD will address how to involve your church and why to involve your church. Short-term missions can be the catalyst to bring home a passion for serving that sweeps through the church body.
Target Audience:
Ministers and church leaders: This DVD is excellent for recruiting other churches, ministers and church leaders to get involved in your missions trip. It will give valuable ideas on how to get people and organizations throughout the church involved in the mission trip. The DVD is designed to go beyond the experiences from the mission trip. It gives practical examples as to how short-term missions continues to touch and change lives long after the team has returned home.
Church and organizational committees: The impact of short-term missions on team members lights a fire of desire and involvement that spreads throughout the church when they return home. This DVD is also an excellent training resource for the church's mission organizations, individuals and groups who wish to learn key principles related to preparing for local mission service.
Practical Uses:
Department and organization meetings: Include this DVD on the meeting agenda to motivate the church leadership.
Wednesday or Sunday evening classes: Showing this DVD as a part of a class will open up discussions, enthusiasm, and involvement.
Topic: Fund Raising
"Help! I'm not a fundraiser!"
Brief Overview:
"Help! I'm not a Fundraiser!" contains a Biblical basis for God's part and plan in fundraising as well as practical help and ideas.
Some of the featured guest trainers include:
- Ellis Goldstein - Director of Ministry Partner Development, Campus Crusade for Christ
- Marty Meyer - Partnership Development, Wycliffe Bible Translators
Critically Important Subjects: This DVD addresses the fears we all face with humor and honesty.
Target Audience:
Teams or individuals: Funds can be raised individually or as a team, painlessly, and in fact, enthusiastically, when we share the mission with the rest of the body.
Church family: One way to share the blessings that result from obeying the Great Commission is to include the entire church.
Practical Uses:
Small Groups. Use the video in a small group setting to allow for discussion. Be a guest speaker at a committee or organizational meeting and allow the DVD to spark interest and involvement.
Large Groups. Allow people, who normally would feel unable to participate in missions due to age, disability, or other restraints, a chance to see how valuable and necessary they are.
Topic: Construction
"It Changed My Church Forever"
Brief Overview:
"Building for Eternity" is a very practical video that is specifically designed to help your team get prepared for a construction missions trip. It explains the dangers of putting the focus on the building and the American way because it's about more than just a building.
Featured guest trainer:
- Larry Myers-Founder, Mexico Ministries.
Video concludes with a music video set to Audio Adrenaline's "Hands and Feet."
Critically Important Subjects:
This DVD addresses the challenges and joys of construction in a foreign country, some do's and don'ts, just who can participate, and the importance of working with the missionaries and the nationals.
Target Audience:
Short-Term Missionaries: This DVD is a must for everyone going to work in construction on a short-term missions trip. The video will broaden your view of what a construction mission trip can do for you and those you are serving.
Leaders in Short-Term Missions: This DVD will help team leaders plan for supplies, equipment, and how to train their teams.
Practical Uses:
Small Groups. Use the video in a small group setting to allow for discussion. Be a guest speaker at a committee or organizational meeting and allow the DVD to spark interest and involvement.
Large Groups. Allow people, who normally would feel unable to participate in missions due to age, disability, or other restraints, a chance to see how valuable and necessary they are.
Please remember to use this DVD in coordination with GO Prepared The ESSENTIALS.
Topic: Medical
"Medical Missions Changes Lives"
Brief Overview:
"When Medical Missions Changes Lives" addresses the anatomy of a medical missions trip from start to finish.
Some of the featured guest trainers include:
- Dr. Larry Capps
- Dr. Henry Dumas
- Dr. Frank Steig
- Dr. John Bishop
- Dr. Don Harden.
Video concludes with a compassionate music set to New Song's "Hope Changes Everything."
Critically Important Subjects:
The DVD shows you what others have done and what to expect. It helps you understand that success isn't measured by how many people are healed physically, but by how you share your love and the love of Christ in various ways. The video provides tips that professionals and lay people need to know. It gives excellent health precautions. There's valuable information about vaccinations, organizational tips, and how to improvise!
Target Audience:
Short-Term Missionaries: This DVD is a valuable tool for preparing people to go on a short-term medical missions trip. It will give you ideas and examples you will never find anywhere else in such an enjoyable, creative and concentrated way.
Leaders in Short-Term Missions: This DVD will help the leaders plan for supplies, equipment, and how to train their teams.
Practical Uses:
Small Groups. Use this DVD in coordination with GO Prepared The ESSENTIALS when training a medical team.
Topic: Evangelism
"Different Ways to Tell Them"
Brief Overview:
Evangelism: Different Ways to Tell Them" gives practical ways to share your faith in word and deed.
Some of the featured guest trainers include:
- Dr. Mark Rutland - President, Oral Roberts University
- Rev. Chip and Bonnie Kelly - Life Church Orlando
- Michael Berg - Southeast Director, YWAM
- Rev. George Rafidi - Arab Outreach Ministries
Video concludes with a lighthearted music video set to Bunch of Believer's "Mission Trip to Mexico."
Critically Important Subjects:
Creative ways to give your testimony (you don't have to be an Evangelist or speak the language), and fun ideas on how to share, teach, and show God's love.
Target Audience:
Short-Term Missionaries: The worry that they aren't talented, dynamic, and can't be effective keeps many people from taking the journey to reach the lost.
Leaders in Short-Term Missions: This is a great tool to help leaders understand the concerns of their team members and give them ideas on how to help and prepare their teams.
Practical Uses:
Small Groups. Use this DVD in coordination with GO Prepared The ESSENTIALS when training a short-term missions team.