SHORT-TERM

MISSIONS GUIDE 2018 Destinations

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Table of Contents Learn. Pray. Give. Serve. Go. ………..…………….. 2 Getting Started ………………………...……………… 3 Important Dates ………………………………………. 4 Central Asia …………………………………………… 5 Peru ……………………………………………………. 6 East Asia ………………………………………………. 7 Lewiston, ME …………………………………………. 8 Haiti …………………………………………………….. 9 Revere Beach …………………………………………. 10 South Africa …………………………………………… 11 Middle East ……………………………………………. 12 Kenya ………………………………………………….. 13

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Learn. Pray. Give. Serve. Go.

Park Street Church is committed to the Great Commission as given

in Matthew 28:18-20, which says:

“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to

me. Therefore, go and make disciples of all

nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the

Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey

everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with

you always, to the very end of the age.”

One of the strategic components of that commitment is our Short-

term Missions Program (STM). The overall goal of our STM

Program is to allow our congregants to explore their own calling to

missions involvement through short, cross-cultural opportunities,

which also advance the long-term goals of our full-time missionaries

and partners.

Our short-term missions program provides opportunities for you to:

LEARN more about global missions and a particular area

of the world.

PRAY for the completion of the Great Commission and for

our short-term teams as they spread across the globe.

GIVE as the Lord provides, to support the work of these

short-term projects.

SERVE by using your gifts to advance the gospel through

evangelism, practical helps or works of mercy.

GO, whether locally or abroad, to make disciples of all

nations.

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Getting Started 1. Start by completing the 2018 PSC Short-term Missions

application online at www.parkstreet.org/shorttermmissions. 2. If you have been on a PSC short-term trip before, please

choose the “PSC STM Returnees” application. 3. Applications are due by February 1. 4. Please submit a $100 deposit along with your application,

indicating your commitment to serve on a STM team. The money will be applied to your fundraising for trip expenses. Payment may be made online at www.parkstreet.org/give or by check in the offering plate or mailed to Park Street Church, 1 Park Street, Boston, MA 02108. Please mark deposits with your name, team and “deposit.”

5. With the exception of “youth trips,” candidates under 18 years must be accompanied by an adult, who takes responsibility for the minor during the trip.

6. Once your application has been received and reviewed, first time participants will be scheduled for an interview with a missions representative.

7. All team members are required to attend the Short-term Missions Workshop in March. Topics will include a rationale for short-term missions, cross-cultural awareness, fund raising, and team building.

8. Team members are responsible for the cost of the trip. Members may raise financial support through contributions from family and friends. Giving may be received through the church’s online giving portal or by check (see #2 above.) These gifts should indicate your team name and your name.

9. You are encouraged to build support through social media but you may not raise funds through fundraising sites, such as GoFundMe.com.

10. As you raise your funds, remember that when God calls you, He will also equip and fund you. Trust Him.

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Important Dates

February 1 STM Applications Due

March 10 STM Workshop

March-July Team Preparation Meetings

Summer (TBA) Team Commissionings

July 1-13 Central Asia STM

July 1-14 Peru STM

July 8-20 East Asia STM

July 29-August 3 Lewiston, ME STM

July (TBA) Haiti STM

August 13-18 Revere Beach, MA STM

August 9-23 South Africa STM

September 15-26 Middle East STM

November 22-28 Kenya STM

Fall 2018 Team Reports

STM Information Sessions

December 10

10:00AM Sixth Floor Conference Room

12:30PM Granary Room

5:30PM Granary Room

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Central Asia English Camp & Young Professionals Ministry

July 1-13

Cost: $2700 The Central Asia team

will spend 2 weeks

working on a Family

English Camp and

connecting with young

professionals to help

coach and encourage

them to live out their

calling to be salt and light in the marketplace. During the first week,

participants will help with a family camp for Christian families.

Activities will include team-building exercises, seminars on

marriage- and family-related topics, English language-learning

lessons, and time for rest and bonding. During the second week,

participants will encourage young professionals through

Toastmaster classes, social events, hiking, and other activities.

Families are encouraged to consider serving together, so that locals

can have the opportunity to meet Christian families and so that

missionary families can be blessed by the community of other

believing families.

Qualifications

Experience in teaching English a plus

Experience in counseling, and Bible teaching would be

welcome

Skills and experience in finance helpful

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Peru Spiritual Retreat & Professional Workshops

July 1-14 Cost: $3,200

Lucaris is a ministry

based in Peru, with a

mission “to orchestrate

a Christian movement

for social transforma-

tion in Latin America.”

Park Street short-term

volunteers will team up with global professionals, Alvaro and

Adriana Henzler, to support the work of Lucaris, as well as local

NGO and church leaders. Individuals with professional or academic

experience in any of the following areas would be especially helpful:

spiritual formation, apologetics, social innovation and change,

management, consulting, coaching, and leadership. Depending on

the group’s makeup, participants will organize activities for the

Community lab (spiritual development) and the Social lab

(entrepreneurial development). Activities for the Community lab

could involve hosting a two-day spiritual retreat and an apologetics

forum on a relevant topic, and giving practical help and spiritual

encouragement to a community in Piura that was devastated by a

flood last summer. Activities for the Social lab could involve

designing and facilitating a workshop on strengthening social

initiatives and advising local NGOs or churches on certain strategic

challenges.

Qualifications

Spanish speaking ability ideal but not required.

Professional experience and/or academic background in

spiritual formation, apologetics, social innovation & change,

management, consulting, coaching, leadership.

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East Asia English Camp & Evangelism

July 8-20 Cost: $3,400

The East Asia team

will have the privilege

of supporting the work

of our long-term

missionaries in the

region. They will work

with low-income

Muslim children at a

summer English camp, meet with Muslim-background believers,

and visit the surrounding area. Volunteers will teach English to the

children at the summer camp and engage with them through other

activities and games. The team members will receive an orientation

to the area and training for their outreach activities from host

missionaries and will learn more about Muslim minorities in the

region. They will also have the opportunity to visit and share the

gospel in nearby neighborhoods and villages. There may be

opportunity for team members with musical ability to be involved at

a music studio, which has been established to reach out to the local

community.

Qualifications

Team members must be fluent Mandarin speakers and

proficient in English.

Musical abilities would be welcome, but not necessary.

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Lewiston, ME Refugee Ministry

July 29-August 3 Cost: $600 For the fourth summer in row, Park Street will be heading up to Lewiston, Maine to work in a community with representatives from 52 different nations, the majority of which are refugees from the war-torn country of Somali. Our team will be joining the ministry of the Root Cellar to reach out to this community in practical ways. Team members will help conduct an afternoon vacation Bible school-type program, soccer program, tutor English, offer training in technical skills, prepare and serve meals and help with various service projects. The Root Cellar was established in 1984 in a dirt-floor church basement in Portland, Maine. Recognizing the need for a place where teens could come as an alternative to the streets, and in some cases their homes, Christian volunteers provided a positive place where the area youth could drop in for food, games and friendship. In 2009, The Root Cellar opened a second site in Lewiston - Maine's 2nd largest city. Located in the heart of the residential downtown neighborhoods, the Root Cellar is committed to bringing enriching services to neighboring youth and their families. Qualifications There are no specific qualifications but the team will strive to put your specific gifts and talents to use.

For a closer look at Root Cellar’s ministry, please visit

www.therootcellarlew.org

http://www.therootcellarlew.org/

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Haiti Medical & Orphanage Ministry

July (Dates TBA) Cost: $2000 Park Street will return for one week this summer to the tropical country of Haiti, where we have had the privilege of serving since the devastating earthquake of 2010. Haiti is one of the least developed, yet most densely populated countries in the Western Hemisphere. We will be taking a team of medical professionals (doctors, nurses, physical therapists, pharmacists, etc.) and other volunteers with willing hands and hearts! Team members will serve alongside the medical staff at King’s Hospital conducting mobile clinics, as well as engaging with children at King’s Garden Orphanage, hosting a vacation Bible school. This will be the ninth trip Park Street has taken to Haiti since 2010. On past trips, team members have worked alongside Haitian

doctors and nurses in King’s Hospital, provided training sessions,

helped organize medical records, and assisted with data entry of

hospital finances. At King’s Orphanage, they have led VBS,

provided medical exams to the children and led a soccer camp.

Team members have the opportunity to help children develop fine

motor skills as they do crafts and provide individualized attention

that is essential to healthy development of children.

Qualifications

Medical professionals of all specialties are encouraged to

participate.

Documentation of US medical license is required to practice

in King’s Hospital.

For stories and photos of our work in Haiti, please visit

parkstreetinhaiti.blogspot.com.

http://parkstreetinhaiti.blogspot.com/

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Revere Beach, MA Outdoor Evangelism Ministry

August 13-18 Cost: $150 Park Street Church will join with other area churches this summer for the annual “Reach the Beach” outdoor evangelism cam-paign. Each day we will be witnessing to those we meet by using “Soularium” and other methods of starting conversations. Last year dozens of area Muslims visited the tables, talked with volunteers and received Jesus Film DVDs and Arabic New Testaments. There will be live music, activities for kids, face painting, drama, and opportunities to connect with women, children and families, who are out on the Revere Beach reservation. A special table is set up to offer prayer for all who wish to share a need or request. Qualifications There are no specific qualifications but for an event this large, much

help is needed! Help is needed during the planning stage, and many

believers will be needed during the week at the beach passing out

tracts, and talking and praying with the beach goers, helping at the

bandstand, and in a variety of other ways.

For more information about Reach the Beach, please visit

www.reachthebeachrevere.org

http://www.reachthebeachrevere.org/

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South Africa Prison Ministry

August 9-23 Cost: $3300 Park Street will be joining Hope Prison Ministry for a two-week summer project in the prisons of South Africa. The team will work alongside mis-sionaries, Andrew and Anne May, who have been serving in the prisons around Wellington, South Africa since 2008. They will link up with Hope Prison Ministry for this rare opportunity in a radically foreign context. They will have the privilege of seeing what God is doing inside the prison walls, sharing their faith journey, reaching out to the families of the prisoners and encouraging those who are ministering in this context on a regular basis. The team will assist the Hope Prison Ministry staff in running a Restorative Justice course, which is a discipleship journey with a goal of seeing this generation of prisoners transformed. The team will aid local staff, as they lead this program to help break the cycle of crime and incarceration.

Qualifications

Willingness to learn from our local team and follow their

lead

Flexibility – prison ministry is, above all, unpredictable!

For stories and photos of our work in South Africa, please visit

parkstreetincapetown.blogspot.com

https://parkstreetincapetown.blogspot.com/

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Middle East Teaching English & Medical Missions

September 15-26

Cost: $2000

Park Street Church has

long had a presence in

the Middle East and is

seeking again this

summer to support the

work of our long-term

workers there. The

Middle East team needs people to serve in two areas: teaching

English and working alongside medical professionals. Volunteers

will teach English to all levels of English-learning missionary

candidates, as they prepare to serve unreached peoples. Teaching

experience would be helpful but not necessary, though volunteers

must have native or near-native English-speaking ability. Other

possible activities include praying for missionary candidates and

taking photos for use in stock footage.

Medical professionals will travel to a Christian mission hospital that

has a family medicine program and can greatly benefit from like-

minded medical professionals. They will share their medical

knowledge and expertise with local doctors and family medicine

residents. The medical team would also seek to encourage the

missionary doctors, as well as impart Christian witness to the

patients at the hospital.

Qualifications

English Classes: near-native proficiency in English,

teaching experience helpful but not required.

Medical: Medical doctors with expertise in any specialty.

Fellows and upper-level residents (3rd year), dentists and

possibly physiotherapists.

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Kenya Family Conference

November 22-28

Cost: $2,800

The Kenya team will

present a Vacation

Bible School program

for the children of the

missionaries attending

the African Inland

Mission (AIM) con-

ference. The AIM annual conference meets at Rift Valley Academy,

a beautiful Christian boarding school, located in central Kenya. The

conference will host missionary families from all over the region,

who come for rest, renewal and equipping. Our team will host a

program for 60-80 elementary school-age children and another

youth program for 40-60 teenagers. By providing care, fun, and

activities for the missionary kids during this conference week, we

can enable the missionaries to have a meaningful time of

refreshment through worship and fellowship.

Qualifications

Enjoy working with children and youth.

Use your gifts to minister to those Christian workers and

their families – skills such as leading worship, computer

troubleshooting, and personal care skills such as haircuts,

manicures, pedicures and massages are welcome.