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INTRODUCTIONS

Primary Team LeaderSecondary Team LeaderTeam Leader Trainee (if

there is one)Team Members

MISSION OPPORTUNITIES SHORT TERM

MOST MINISTRIES APPLICATION

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APPLICATION WEBPAGE

http://www.mostministries.org/application_web_page

WELCOME WEBPAGE

http://www.mostministries.org/welcome_web_page

TRAVEL WEBPAGE

http://www.mostministries.org/travel_web_page

CULTURAL WEBPAGE

REENTRY WEBPAGE

http://www.mostministries.org/re_entry_web_page

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PRE-FIELD SECURITY MONITORING

• MOST Ministries monitors 4 security sites daily both pre-field and while you are on the field.

• Every team is registered with the State Department.

• Changes in security while you are on the mission field are passed on to the Team Leader and host.

SAFETY AND RISK

• Do not resist a robbery attempt.  Many criminals have weapons, and most injuries and deaths have resulted when victims have resisted. 

• Technology-can draw attention to you and the group, putting the entire team at risk.

• Keep personal funds on your person-divided in 2 locations. Immediate spending cash at hand. Remainder of the money hidden. Do not leave cash in your room.

• In crowds keep your hand on your fanny pack. No purses! Keep passport in holder, hidden from view.

• Do not carry values in your backpack.• Keep your Emergency Card with your passport

In case you are separated from the team. Information needed to fill out immigration forms.

• NEVER go anywhere alone.• Respect the instruction of the host on safety

issues-they know the area and you do not.• If someone grab an item or piece of luggage-

LET IT GO!• Keep all electronics out of view.• There is nothing that is irreplaceable except

you.

SAFETY AND RISK CONTINUED

CRISIS MANAGEMENT PLAN

Plan covers the following:Personal CrisisHealth Crisis

Nursing Protocol written by a travel medicine doctor

Political CrisisNatural Disasters Sudden Death of a Team Member

Pre-field and On-Field Action Plan.

Both the leader and the CMA will carry to plan on the field.

PASSPORT HOLDERS

•Use a Waist holder or Neck holder.•Keep your passport in a Ziploc bag to protect from moisture and perspiration .•Paperclip to hold travel papers in passport.

PRAYER

Information available on the Welcome Webpage

SERVANTHOOD BIBLE STUDY

The study is located:

Lessons 1-4 Welcome Webpage

Lessons 5-7 Travel Webpage

Lessons 8-11 Cultural Webpage

2 Optional Studies are also available on the Welcome Webpage

JOURNALING

REENTRY AND SHARING YOUR STORY

Be prepared to share

your story in…

30 second

3 minute

30 minute

PERSONAL DEBRIEFERS

INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THE CULTURAL WEBPAGE

TEAM HELPERS

Medic

Crisis Management

Devotion Coordinator

Music

Music for church

Photographers

Cultural Coordinator

Prayer

Water Warden

Luggage Coordinator

Blogger

Others?

TEAM HELPERS

TEAM HELPERS

Finance information

is located on the

Application Website

Final Payment Due

DATE

Contact Finance

Administrator at

(734) 994-7909 ext. 12

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

TIMELINE • Packing

meeting• Commissioning

service• Team Reunion• Presentation to

church(es)

Notify the Team Administrator with your date for church / organization presentation

IMPORTANT DOCUMENTATION

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PERSONAL HEALTH

• Bring all your OTC medications that you know work for you.

• Bring all prescriptions in their original packaging.

• Gatorade, Propel or Special K protein mixes.

• Snacks-healthy-protein.

• Immunizations up to date.

• Talking with the Team Medic.

• Yoghurt or Acidophilus

• Airborne or other immune boasting vitamins.

PERSONAL HEALTH CONTINUED

Hand washing Hand sanitizer Hand wipes

Water bottles Seal is not broken Screw top preferred Ice only from purified water source

Peel all fruit and vegetables.30 minutes prior to eating you can chew a

couple ofPepto Bismo Tablets to coat stomach.

PERSONAL HEALTH CONTINUED

For those who may be taking acid blockers:

Need to wash hands and sanitize more frequently.

Opt to discontinue taking for the trip.

Sun screen

Bug repellent

Hat or Visor

PERSONAL MEDICATION CHANGES

Please contact the Team Administrator 1 month

prior to departure with any medication changes.

A reminder email will be sent 1 month prior to

departure-be looking for it.

ON THE FIELD

PROJECT LOCATIONS

ON THE FIELD

MAP OF LOCATION

DRESS CODE

Ladies

Guys

Comfortable closed toed shoes for clinic times

Swimsuit-modest, no bikinis

WEEK SCHEDULE

DAILY SCHEDULE

FLIGHT ITINERARY

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• #-## checked bags• Free checked bag will be the MOST

team bag• Personal

• 1-## lbs. carry-on• 1-personal item

BAGGAGE

PACKING TIPS-CARRY ON

• Pack your carry-on with everything you would need for the week if your suitcase got lost.

• Include at least one extra set of clothes.•All personal medications, pack a complete set in both your carry-on and checked bags.

•Snacks.•Camera

• 1 set of clothes• OTC &

prescription medications

• Toiletries• Snacks• Empty refillable

water bottle

• Camera• Reading material• Small flashlight• Your

eyeglasses/contact lenses & supplies

• Malaria medication• Sunscreen & bug

repellent

CARRY-ON BAG CONTENTS

CHECKED BAG

• ## Lbs. per bag• Include your address somewhere

inside the bag.• If you are traveling with someone

else divide your clothes – if one bag gets lost you still have clothes in the other persons bag.

CHECKED BAG CONTENTS

Towel and washcloth (or nylon bath ball)

Snacks

Clothes

Extra water bottle or two

Complete supply of all prescription medications

Please meet at the gate at ?????

Brief Meeting

Prayer and off we go…

MEETING AT AIRPORT

CULTURE A

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BUILDING BLOCKS OF CULTUREBuilding Blocks of Culture

Four building blocks are:• Concept of self-individualist and

collectivist.• Personal versus societal responsibility-

universalist and particularistic.• Concept of time-monochronic and

polychromic.• Locus of control-internal and external.

Building Blocks of Culture

BUILDING BLOCKS OF CULTURE

Concept of self-individualist and collective

Individualist

•The smallest unit of survival

•Needs of self are satisfied before needs of a group

•Self sufficient

•More psychological and emotional distance form others

•Group membership is not essential to one’s identity

Collectivist

•Smallest unit of survival

•One’s identity is a function of one’s membership in a group

•Success and survival of the group insures well-being of individual

•Harmony of the group is stressed and valued

•More distance between group and non-group members

Building Blocks of Culture

UniversalistAbsolutes across the board regardless of situationLay feeling s aside and look at situation objectivelyLife isn’t fair but it can be more fair by treating everyone the same

ParticularitstHow you behave in a given situation depends on the circumstanceTo be fair is to treat everyone as uniqueNo one expects life to be fairWhat is right in one situation may not be right in another

PERSONAL VERSUS SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY

Building Blocks of Culture

Monochronic

•Time is a commodity and there is a limited amount of it

•Use time wisely and not waste it

•Time is the given and people are the variables

•Interruptions are a nuisance

Polychronic

•Time is limitless and there is always more time

•Time is the servant of people and is adjusted to suit the needs of people

•There is no such thing as an interruption

CONCEPT OF TIME-MONOCHRONIC AND POLYCHROMIC

Building Blocks of Culture

Internal

•The locus of control is largely internal

•Very few givens in life

•There is no limit on what you can do or become

•You are responsible for what happens to you

•Life is what you do

External

•The locus of control is largely external

•There are limits beyond which one cannot go and must be accepted

•Your success is a combination of effort and good luck

•Life is what happens to you

LOCUS OF CONTROL-INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL

Building Blocks of Culture

USING THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF CULTURE• To help you understand there is no one

view that is better

• To help you expect the differences

• To observe the positives of the host cultures

• Who would not want more time to spent with family and friends?

Building Blocks of Culture

CULTURE SHOCK

Definition of CULTURE SHOCK

A sense of confusion and uncertainty sometimes with

feelings of anxiety that may affect people exposed to an

alien culture or environment without adequate

Preparation.

DEPENDENCY

GIFT GIVING AND DEPENDENCY

3 TYPES OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION

1.Relief: Urgent and temporary provision of emergency aid to reduce immediate suffering from a natural or man-made crisis.

2.Rehabilitation: Seeks to restore people and their communities to the positive elements of their pre-crisis conditions.

3.Development: A process of on-going change that moves all the people involved – both the “helpers” and the “helped” – closer to being in right relationships with God, Self, Others, and the Rest of Creation.

PATERNALISM

• Paternalism is the interference of a state or an individual with another person, against their will, and defended or motivated by a claim that the person interfered with will be better off or protected from harm – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• A system under which an authority undertakes to supply needs or regulate conduct of those under its control in matters affecting them as individuals as well as in their relations to authority and to each other – Merriam-Webster Dictionary

• Doing things for people that they can do for themselves - WHH

AVOID PATERNALISM!

LANGUAGE

Practice common phrases

Key short-term mission word (don’t leave home without

it).

CLOSING PRAYER

 Lord, we come into your presence seeking a gracious blessing. But we dare to ask for an outrageous portion of Your grace. We ask that You not simply equip us, but that You chase us out into Your world.

Make us people of vision who look not in but out, not backward but forward, not down but up, not at what cannot be done but at what might be accomplished by Your Spirit.

Make us those who seek mountains and not valleys, narrow paths instead of wide and easy ways, sending us new places instead of resting places, starts instead of finishes, horizons instead of waysides, tomorrows instead of yesterdays.

Give us running shoes instead of slippers, alarm clocks instead of sleep switches, accelerators instead of brakes, sailboats instead of sandcastles.

Make us startle even ourselves with the power You give. For all we do is moved by Your breath, enveloped by Your Spirit, filled with the wind of Your grace, and resounding to Your glory and not ours.

“Give us wings to fly like eagles”

Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up

wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

We pray in Jesus’ name.