If you are interested in purchasing the handbooks please email teams@sim.ca.
So far SIM Canada has sent out over 80 teams, more than 700 people, and the Mission Team Handbook has been tested with all of them.
Those who have used the handbooks in training teams have noticed that the teams who are well trained have a significantly greater impact than those that are not. In fact, some team members have chafed at the training only to come back from their experience saying they did not have enough training.
The purpose of the handbooks is to train team leaders and members to be Christlike servants cross-culturally. The handbook walks a team through all the preparation the members need to do - such as defining team members’ roles, raising support, and preparing for conversations with people from other cultures and religions.
Leader's Handbook Contents are listed below . . .
Leader’s Checklist
Getting Started
A. Selection: For Missions Committee Use
1. How to Choose a Mission Team Trip
2. Criteria for Selecting a Leader and Team
B. Leader’s Essentials
1. Role of the Team Leader
2. Resources to Order ASAP
3. Retreat Schedules
C. Leader’s Lesson Plans
1. Motivation for Missions
2. Raising Support: Prayer and Finances
3. Building a Unified Team
4. Security, Travel and Health
5. Cross-Cultural Servants
6. Dealing with Traps of Fear and Impurity
7. Are People Lost Forever?
8. How to Share the Gospel
9. Major Religions & Cultural Tips
A Conversation with a Muslim
A Conversation with a Hindu
A Conversation with a Tibetan Buddhist
A Conversation with an Animist
A Conversation with a Latin Catholic
10. Spiritual Opposition
11. DON’T FORGET!
12. Debriefing: Team Leader’s Questionnaire
D. Ministry Tools
1. Leader’s Lesson Plan
ESL -
Tools for Teaching Conversational English
2. Leader’s Lesson Plan
Vacation Bible School -
Finding Peace and Protection in Christ
3. Leader’s Lesson Plan
Bible English as a Second Language -
Finding Peace and Protection in Christ
