Selected Articles (written by scholars)
on Short-Term Missions
by Robert J. Priest
Adeney, Miriam. 2003. When the elephant dances, the mouse may die. In Short-term missions today, edited by Bill Berry, pp. 86-89. Pasadena, CA: Into All the World Magazine.
Adeney, Miriam. 2006. Shalom tourist: Loving your neighbor while using her. Missiology 34 (4): 463-476.
Adeney, Miriam. 2008. The myth of the blank slate: A check-list for short-term missions. In Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing it Right! (edited by Robert Priest, William Carey Library), pp. 121-145.
Alegre Villón, Joaquín. 2007. Short-Term Missions: Experiences and perspectives from Callao, Peru. In Special Issue on Short-Term Missions in Latin America (Guest editors Robert Priest and Tito Paredes) -- Journal of Latin American Theology: Christian Reflections from the Latino South 2: 119-138.
Bahamonde, Marcos Arroyo. 2007. Contextualization of mission: A missiological analysis of short-term missions. In Special Issue on Short-Term Missions in Latin America (Guest editors Robert Priest and Tito Paredes) -- Journal of Latin American Theology: Christian Reflections from the Latino South 2: 227-248.
Barnett, Keri L. Nancy S. Duball, Keith J. Edwards, Hal M. Elizabet Lewis. 2005. Psychological and spiritual predictors of domains of functioning and effectiveness of short-term missionaries. Journal of Psychology and Theology 33.
Beers, Steve. 2001. The effects of study abroad/mission trips on the faith development of college students. Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development 1: 83 - 107.
Birth, Kevin. 2006. What is your mission here? A Trinidadian perspective on visits from the “Church of Disneyworld.” Missiology 34 (4):497-508.
Bramadat, Paul A. 2000. Chapter 7: Witnessing at McMaster and Abroad. In The church on the world’s turf: An evangelical Christian group at a secular university. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Brown, C. M. 2008. Friendship is forever: Congregation-to-congregation relationships. In Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing it Right! (edited by Robert Priest, William Carey Library), pp. 203-231.
Cerrón, Francisco. 2007. Short-term missions: An initial assessment from experience. In Special Issue on Short-Term Missions in Latin America (Guest editors Robert Priest and Tito Paredes) -- Journal of Latin American Theology: Christian Reflections from the Latino South 2: 21-32.
Cook, Charles. 2008. Short-term missions and the law: Lessons from Canada. In Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing it Right! (edited by Robert Priest, William Carey Library), pp. 365-398.
Cook, Charles and Joel Van Hoogen. 2007. Towards a missiologically and morally responsible short-term ministry: Lessons learned in the development of church partnership evangelism. In Special Issue on Short-Term Missions in Latin America (Guest editors Robert Priest and Tito Paredes) -- Journal of Latin American Theology: Christian Reflections from the Latino South 2: 48-68.
Eitzen, Martín Hartwig. 2007. Short-term missions: A Latin American Perspective. In Special Issue on Short-Term Missions in Latin America (Guest editors Robert Priest and Tito Paredes) -- Journal of Latin American Theology: Christian Reflections from the Latino South 2: 33-47.
Farrell, Hunter. 2007. Short-term missions: Paratrooper incursion or “Zaccheus Encounter.” In Special Issue on Short-Term Missions in Latin America (Guest editors Robert Priest and Tito Paredes) -- Journal of Latin American Theology: Christian Reflections from the Latino South 2: 69-83.
Friesen, Randy. 2005. The long-term impact of short-term missions. Evangelical Missions Quarterly 41:448-454.
Harris, Paula. 2002. Calling young people to missionary vocations in a “yahoo” world. Missiology 30 (1): 33-50.
Howell, Brian with Rachel Dorr. 2007. Evangelical pilgrimage: The discourse of short-term missions. Journal of Communication and Religion 30: 236-265.
Howell, Brian. (Forthcoming 2009). Mission to nowhere: Putting short-term mission in context. International Bulletin of Missionary Research.
Johnstone, David M. 2006. Closing the loop: Debriefing and the short-term college missions team. Missiology 34 (4): 523-529.
Landa, Apolos. 2007. Short-term medical missions: A summary of experiences. In Special Issue on Short-Term Missions in Latin America (Guest editors Robert Priest and Tito Paredes) -- Journal of Latin American Theology: Christian Reflections from the Latino South 2: 104-118.
Lau, Stell Sai-Chun. 2006. Churched Ibiza: Evangelical Christianity and club culture. Culture and Religion 7 (1): 77-92.
Linhart, Terence D. 2005. Planting seeds: The hope of short-term mission experience in youth ministry. Christian Education Journal (series 3) 2 (2): 256-272.
Linhart, Terence David. 2006. They were so alive!: The spectacle self and youth group short-term mission trips. Missiology 34 (4): 451-462.
Livermore, David. 2004. AmeriCAN or AmeriCAN’T? A critical analysis of western training to the world. Evangelical Missions Quarterly 40: 458-466.
Maslucán, Rodrigo. 2007. Short-term missions: Analysis and proposals. In Special Issue on Short-Term Missions in Latin America (Guest editors Robert Priest and Tito Paredes) -- Journal of Latin American Theology: Christian Reflections from the Latino South 2: 139-158.
Montgomery, Laura. 1993. Short-term medical missions: Enhancing or eroding health? Missiology 21 (3): 333-341.
Montgomery, Laura. 2007. Reinventing short-term medical missions to Latin America. In Special Issue on Short-Term Missions in Latin America (Guest editors Robert Priest and Tito Paredes) -- Journal of Latin American Theology: Christian Reflections from the Latino South 2: 84-103.
Moreau, A. Scott and Mike O’Rear. 2004. All you ever wanted on short-term missions. Evangelical Missions Quarterly 40: 100- 105.
Moreau, A. Scott. 2008. Short-term missions in the context of Missions, Inc. IN Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing it Right! (edited by Robert Priest, William Carey Library), pp. 1-33.
O’Neill, Daniel W., MD. 2008. Short-term medical missions: A practitioner’s perspective on effective strategies. In Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing it Right! (edited by Robert Priest, William Carey Library), pp. 285-307.
Palomino, Miguel A. 2007. “If everything is mission: Nothing is mission”: Reflections on short-term missions. In Special Issue on Short-Term Missions in Latin America (Guest editors Robert Priest and Tito Paredes) -- Journal of Latin American Theology: Christian Reflections from the Latino South 2: 208-226.
Paredes, Tito. 2007. Short-term missions: What can be rescued, what can be criticized, and the challenge of contextualization. In Special Issue on Short-Term Missions in Latin America (Guest editors Robert Priest and Tito Paredes) -- Journal of Latin American Theology: Christian Reflections from the Latino South 2: 249-259.
Park, Kyeong-Sook. 2008. Researching short-term missions and paternalism. In Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing it Right! (edited by Robert Priest, William Carey Library), pp. 499-522.
Priest, Kersten Bayt. 2008. Women as resource brokers: STM trips, social and organizational ties, and mutual resource benefits. In Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing it Right! (edited by Robert Priest, William Carey Library), pp. 251-269.
Priest, Robert J. 2006. Introduction to theme issue on short-term missions. Missiology 34 (4): 427-429.
Priest, Robert J., Terry Dischinger, Steve Rasmusen, C. M. Brown. 2006. Researching the short-term mission movement. Missiology 34 (4): 431-450.
Priest, Robert J. 2007. Introduction: Short-Term Missions and the Latin American Church. Special Issue on Short-term Missions in Latin America -- Journal of Latin American Theology: Christian Reflections from the Latino South 2:7-20.
Priest, Robert J. 2007. Peruvian Churches acquire "linking social capital" through STM partnerships. Special Issue on Short-term Missions in Latin America -- Journal of Latin American Theology: Christian Reflections from the Latino South 2: 175-189.
Priest, Robert J. 2008. Introduction. In Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing it Right! (edited by Robert Priest, William Carey Library), pp. i-ix.
Priest, Robert J. and Joseph Paul Priest. 2008. "They see everything, and understand nothing": Short-term Missions and Service Learning. Missiology 36 (1): 53-73.
Radecke, Mark W. 2006. Service-learning and the spiritual formation of college students. Word and World 26 (3): 289-298.
Richardson, Rick. 2008. The impact of urban short-term projects on the social connections of evangelical college students. In Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing it Right! (edited by Robert Priest, William Carey Library), pp. 525-550.
Root, Andrew. 2008. The youth ministry mission trip as global tourism: Are we OK with this?” Dialog: A Journal of Theology 47 (4): 314-329.
Russell, Mark. 2008. Missional business professionals: The strategic and practical use of business professionals as empowered partners in short-term missions. In Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing it Right! (edited by Robert Priest, William Carey Library), pp. 335-362.
Sheler, Jeffery L. 2006. Mayan Mission: Guatemala City, Guatemala. Chapter six of Believers: A Journey into Evangelical America, pp. 158-194. New York: Viking.
Shepherd, Nick. 2005. Soul in the city – Mission as package holiday: The potential implications of a ‘tourist’ paradigm in youth mission. Anvil: An Anglican Evangelical Journal for Theology and Mission 22 (4).
Slimbach, Richard. 2000. First, do no harm. Evangelical Missions Quarterly 36: 428 - 441.
Slimbach, Richard. 2008. The mindful missioner. In Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing it Right! (edited by Robert Priest, William Carey Library), pp. 147-177.
Terry, Douglas W. 2004. Assessing missional effectiveness of midterm missionaries. Missiology 32 (2): 173-186. [In this article "Midterm missionary = noncareer short-termers serving cross-culturally at least three months.]
Tuttle, Kathryn A. 2000. The effects of short-term mission experiences on college students’ spiritual growth and maturity. Christian Education Quarterly 4 (2): 123-140.
Vaisey, Stephen and Jenny Trinitapoli. [Forthcoming]. The transformative role of religious experience: The case of short-term missions. Social Forces.
Ver Beek, Kurt. 2002. International service-learning: A call to caution. Chapter 5 IN Commitment and connection: Service-learning and Christian higher education. Ed. by Gail Gunst Heffner and Claudia DeVries Beversluis. New York: University Press of America.
Ver Beek, Kurt. 2006. The impact of short-term missions: A case study of house construction in Honduras after Hurricane Mitch. Missiology 34 (4):477-495.
Ver Beek, Kurt. 2008. Lessons from the sapling: Review of quantitative research on short-term missions. In Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing it Right! (edited by Robert Priest, William Carey Library), pp. 469-496.
Vílchez-Blancas, Eliseo. 2007. Short-term missions: A sign of mutations, tensions, and challenges in mission. In Special Issue on Short-Term Missions in Latin America (Guest editors Robert Priest and Tito Paredes) -- Journal of Latin American Theology: Christian Reflections from the Latino South 2: 159-174.
Walker-Adams, Michelle A. and Scott Ross. 2008. Short-term missions: Avoiding liability pitfalls. In Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing it Right! (edited by Robert Priest, William Carey Library), pp 401-467.
Walling, Sherry M., Cynthia B. Eriksson, Katherine J. Meese, Antonia Ciovica, and Deborah Gorton. 2006. Cultural identity and reentry in short-term student missionaries. Journal of Psychology and Theology 34 (2): 153-164.
Wang, Chin T. (John). 2008. Urban church resources for short-term mission. In Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing it Right! (edited by Robert Priest, William Carey Library), 233-249.
Wuthnow, Robert and Stephen Offutt. 2008. Transnational religious Connections. Sociology of Religion 69: 209-232.
Ybarrola, Steven. 2008. Avoiding the ugly missionary: Anthropology and short-term missions. IN Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing it Right! (edited by Robert Priest, William Carey Library), pp. 101-119.
Zehner, Edwin. 2006. Short-term missions: Toward a more field-oriented model. Missiology 34 (4): 509-521.
Zehner, Edwin. 2008. On the rhetoric of the short-term missions appeals: With some practical suggestions for team leaders. In Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing it Right! (edited by Robert Priest, William Carey Library), pp. 179-201.