If you’re looking to take missions to a whole new level in your church, read on!

One of our newest customers, Wendy, from Hunsinger Lane Baptist Church (HLBC) in Louisville, Kentucky, is doing just that!

As she put it, “I stepped into some big shoes when there was a change in our missions leadership.”

Wendy said, “I wanted to take missions to a whole new level in our church and it included strategies to communicate more effectively with our people about what God was doing … and MissionMakr was exactly what I envisioned for our communication strategy.”

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20 minutes … that’s all the time it takes to communicate everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) about your short-term trip.  Every blog post from the Field News Widget, every photo album, every special story with pictures and more.

20 minutes – that’s all the time it takes when you use Tell — MissionMakr’s fourth phase designed to help you communicate and engage your church, friends, and family about your short-term trip.

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Hour for hour spent and dollar for dollar invested, short term mission trips have the capacity to create huge impact within the local church for the Great Commission!

Done well, short term trips become a beacon, shifting the focus and attention beyond the four walls of the local church and impacting the lives of the people in the field, those going to the field as AND the lives of those who prayed, and gave of their time, talent and resources to support the trip.

Done poorly, a short term mission trip becomes a mere blip on the map of ministry or just another “thing” in the church’s long list of activities for the year.

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Okay, the date is firm and the place is selected.  You’re ready to begin “getting the word out” about your trip and signing people up.

Now what? How do you engage your church and impact those who may want to go on your trip?

Regardless of the size of your church, your staff or your budget, there are  4 things you can do to get your trip off the ground in a hurry.

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Out of ideas to communicate your next short-term trip?  We’ve got you covered.  Call it our “going-on-your-trip gift”.  Whatever you call it, it’s free, so grab it!

When you sign up to build and launch a short-term trip through MissionMakr.com, you first visit Mission Control.  Don’t miss the “Download your free banners” button … cause it’s worth the price of admission. Oh, I forgot, the price of admission is FREE!

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Guest Blogger, Shelly Walker, has seen both sides of missions.  For 5 years, she was a Missionary in Africa. Before, during and after her time as a Missionary, she’s coordinated 13 short-term trips — 5 High School Trips to Mexico and 8 trips to Africa … oh, and she’s a big fan of MissionMakr.com!

There are a million details to a short-term trip, but one critical detail that is often overlooked is developing a plan to communicate.

Think about all the people that will touch your short-term trip … from before you leave to your time on the mission field to when you return.

They are different.  Different groups of people see your trip from different perspectives, and they therefore need different things from you in terms of communication.

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