STEM Int’l maintains our registered office in Minneapolis MN and our publications/administrative office in Orlando FL.
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Do you need mission trip books or training resources for your short-term mission trip? The STEM Press On-Line Bookstore specializes in mission training resources and short-term mission publications that help you build an effective short-term missions trip program.
Train your short-term mission trip well !!
Lead your short-term mission trip well !!
Do your short-term mission trip well !!
Debrief your short-term mission trip well !!
This updated 3rd Edition with new material (including the chapter, “Finding a Partner”), is an easy-read 95-page paperback — perfect for long-term mission partnerships and ongoing short-term mission trips with the same field partner.
Church mission trip leaders: make sure both you and your overseas partner go through this book together — then your short-term mission trip efforts will achieve much more success!
Author Dr. Dan Rickett continues to offer excellent, indispensable tools for assessing intercultural partnerships, with tactical strategies to build collaborative relationships that actually work. His succinct, focused writing is orderly and clear; his 8 superb checklists plus tables/illustrations capture vital concepts that will help any church or mission agency increase their likelihood to establish healthy, mutually-beneficial partnerships for the long haul.
The book is an absolutely-must-have for every church and every agency that feels called to establish short-term mission or long-term mission partnerships with another church or people group in another part of the world.
• “PARTNERSHIP and STRATEGIC are two of the most-used buzzwords in Christian mission today … Daniel takes the next step and makes them action words … for large denominations, small mission agencies, career missionaries, and short-term teams.” — Bruce Wall, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod World Mission
• “…great insight into effective partnerships with our brothers and sisters around the world — the questions to ask, the pitfalls to avoid, principles on sharing resources and avoiding unhealthy dependency. We will use these tools for years to come to educate our short-term and long-term missionaries.” — Ruth White, Cherry Hills Community Church
• ”I welcome the Third Edition of Building Strategic Relationships … the reader quickly realizes what he has in his hands in not merely a text that is relevant and of high quality, but a valuable tool for the proper implementation of the partnership.” — Dr. Omar Gava, Global Strategic Resources; and the Global Training Network of COMIBAM Intl.
• “Several years ago, our church set out to build global partnerships with our brothers and sisters around the world. Other than the Bible, no book has helped that process more than Building Strategic Relationships. I’ve given away more copies than I can remember, personally delivering it to potential partners in South Africa, Thailand, Kenya, and Ecuador. — Paul McGuinness, Parker Hill Community Church
“I just ordered resources from STEM for the first time … I was delighted with your selection of resources and your prompt order fulfillment service. I order many things via the internet and have never had better service.”
Thanks for getting [my 40 books] out so fast!
Rev. Roger Peterson
Founder / CEO
STEM Int’l incorporated December 1984 as a Minnesota 501(c)(3) nonprofit Christian missions ministry. STEM relocated to Florida in 2013.
STEM Int’l was organized into three program divisions:
1. STEM Ministries (including STEM Share) — the short-term missions trip and outreach sending divisions. Between 1985 and 2012, STEM Ministries trained and sent out more than 8,000 short-term missionaries into more than a dozen nations in the Caribbean, Central & South America, and the 10/40 Window. We estimate that 15,000 people became Christ-followers as a result! In 2009 the Lord spoke clearly to us, saying “That’s it!” — so our STEM Ministries/STEM Share programs wound down during the next 4 years; we ceased sending short-term mission trips in 2012.
2. STEM Training — training churches and other sending entities to achieve maximum impact in their short-term mission programs through industry-leading training events and consulting and speaking services from the mid-1990s to about 2010 — with CEO Roger Peterson periodically available on a public speaking basis.
3. STEM Press — the missions publishing division of STEM Int’l. STEM Press began somewhat “accidentally” in 1991, when STEM Founder/CEO Roger Peterson co-authored and published a solid, empirical 40-page research study on the post-field outcomes of 366 previous STEM short-term missionaries. This study (still in print) has sold several thousand copies. Is Short-Term Mission Really Worth the Time and Money? reported statistically significant changes in prayer, financial giving, commitment to world mission, mission-related activities and education, and in feelings about returning to the mission field.
STEM Int’l maintains our registered office in Minneapolis MN and our publications/administrative office in Orlando FL.
On-Line Store Hours
7 Days a Week, 24/7