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Mission Trip Preparation   

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Missions Dilemma by Steve Saint, whose father and four other missionaries were killed in 1956 in Ecuador. 

For the trailer visit http://www.itecusa.org/missions_dilemma.html

Missions Dilemma by Steve Saint is the best material I have found to assist a local church in preparing a team for a short-term mission.
Do not go on another mission trip until you have watched this DVD wiith your team.

Books

Books about the 1994 Rwandan Genocide

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  • Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, by Immaculee Ilibagiza with Steve Erwin.
    (A great first book to introduce the reality of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Once you begin, you will not put it down.)

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A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It, by Stephen Kinzer.

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Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak, by Jean Hatzfeld and Linda Coverdale.

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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, by Roméo Dallaire and Samantha Power.

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Christ Walks Where Evil Reigned: Responding to the Rwandan Genocide, by Peter Holmes and Archbishop Emmanuel M. Kolini

Books for Greater Discernment in Missions

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Roots and Remedies of the Dependency Syndrome in World Missions, by Robert Reese.

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Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships, by Sherwood G. Lingenfelter and Marvin K. Mayers.

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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor... and Yourself, by Brian Fikkert, Steve Corbett and Danny Campbell.

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Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence, by David A. Livermore.

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Good News About Injustice: A Witness of Courage in a Hurting World, by Gary A. Haugen.

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A Wind in the House of Islam, by David Garrison

​David Garrison traveled a quarter-million miles into every corner of the Muslim world collecting interviews from more than a thousand former Muslims who have come to faith in Jesus Christ. These Muslim-background believers were interviewed because they were part of larger movements of Muslims to Christ in their communities. He asked them, "What is your story? What did God use to bring you to faith in Jesus Christ?"



Videos

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Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda



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Rwanda - Do Scars Ever Fade?

Articles

"The Two Africas," by Phil Walker, U.S. President of International Christian Ministries
http://www.icmusa.org/twoafricas.pdf

"Best Mission Practices in the 21st Century," by Robert Reese, associate professor of cross-cultural ministry at Mid-Atlantic Christian University in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. He served as a cross-cultural missionary in Zimbabwe from 1981 to 2002.
http://christianstandard.com/2009/11/cs_article-1360/
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