In this Episode:

• “Comprehensive Administration” means covering the administrative details of a short-term mission.
• We need to be truthful in the promotion, finances, and reporting of a short-term mission initiative.
• Be truthful by being mindful of the motivations that you are tugging at in people to ask them to participate.
• Be truthful by being above board and accountable in finances.
• Be truthful by reporting the results of a short-term mission in a way that is consistent with long-term impact and with the process of the short-term mission.
• Appropriate risk management means identifying and communicating the risks, mitigating them when we can, and being prepared.
• Ahead of a short-term mission there needs to be agreement about the amount of acceptable risk.
• Have an objective way of assessing how much risk there is. Make plans to address the risk.
• Be careful to have medical insurance on a short-term mission.
• The SOE webinar “Is it Worth the Risk?”  can help you in developing appropriate risk management.
• The SOE has a newsletter called “The Hub”. In the March 2017 Issue there is an article “Is it Worth the Risk?” by Tory Roark.
• Crisis Consulting International offers great training, resources, and policies.
• To evaluate how effectively you are addressing logistics, survey the participants and hosts about their logistical and administrative preparation and comfort level.
• An excellent short-term mission has “Qualified Leadership”.
• A qualified leader has the right character, skills, and values.
• A qualified leader has Christ-like character, is committed to God’s word and prayer, is a humble servant, and is marked by love.
• A qualified leader is skilled at time-management, administration, interpersonal communication, and conflict resolution.
• A qualified leader values the contributions of others.
• A short-term mission is an excellent opportunity to develop leaders.
• ”Episode 006: Creating Leaders for Short-Term Missions” with Mark Crocker has ideas for developing leaders.
• SOE has a Developing Short-Term Mission Team Leaders Webinar.
• The SOE has an article Choosing Short-Term Mission Team Leader in an Early 2017 edition of “The Hub”.
• Find a resource that helps you understand what you need a leader to do and be like to be successful. Find resources to help them in that.
• Ask people to attend missions conferences such as SOE Approved Conferences, to learn, network, build relationships and find resources.
• Get specific team leadership training such as those offered at STMLeader.com. Standards of Excellence and some member organizations like SEND USA offer team leader training.
• Visit Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission, access The 7 Standards Detailed Booklet, contact Tory at toryr@soe.org, and consider joining SOE.