Transformission: Making Disciples Through Short-Term Missions

by Michael S. Wilder Remarkably, thirty percent of North American teenagers - millions of people between the ages of 13 and 17 - have engaged in religious missions or service projects. Building on this statistic, the authors of TransforMission believe that short-term mission is one way God is taking the gospel to the nations and, concurrently, transforming the lives of these student participants. Writing to youth ministers, missiologists, church leaders, adult volunteers, and post-high school students, they assess strategies for further promoting this kind of involvement by exploring several questions.