Updated in 2020, including a chapter on traveling amidst the coronavirus (Covid-19), a worldwide pandemic. Short-Term Missions, A Christian Guide to STMs is a full and concise guide to STMs. What you need to know about planning a STM, or joining a STM team, and considering the options as part of the Great Commission, from the Good News to good works. This book is full of anecdotes and advice with informative timelines, and a biblical framework for STMs to help you engage in cross-cultural missions; with viable solutions to common mission issues to make your STM more effective to the glory of God. Mission considerations and types of STMs. What to do, where to go, with the best methods. How to pick a team or choose a STM organization. Raising financial support and managing your STM budget. Travel kit list, items to buy and what to leave behind. Emotional and spiritual work, before, during and at home. Security, safety, duty and character, and being streetwise. Dealing with social media and disruptive team members. Medical advice, obtaining a visa and your plane ticket. What to pack, how best to travel and airport etiquette. Christian literature, building a home or sinking a bore well. Communication, language issues and public speaking. Team dynamics, food and drink, the tribe, and social time. Working with the locals and being culturally sensitive. What to do before and after you return home. Mathew Backholer is the co-founder of ByFaith Media (ByFaith.org) and films and presents the reality mission series ByFaith TV which airs globally on numerous Christian networks. He has been on more than thirty mission trips and has experience: as a team member, a leader and as a host. Mathew is passionate about the Great Commission – to make disciples of Jesus in all nations by the power of the Holy Spirit. He has travelled the length of Africa, from Cairo to the Cape, across South-East Asia from India to Vietnam and from Nepal to Russia via China and Mongolia and has survived the Trans-Siberian Railway. He has driven around Europe, visited North Africa six times, and has journeyed alone, with friends, as part of team and as a leader.

Revised and updated in 2017. How to Plan, Prepare and Successfully Complete Your Short-Term Mission (STM) will guide you through all you need to know about your STM. The author has been on more than thirty mission trips and has experience: as a team member, a leader and as a host. He has participated in the most incredible mission adventures, sharing the Word in Sudan, preaching in villages in India, supplying Bibles in North Africa, assisting the persecuted Church in Asia, and maintaining mission centres in Europe. The book Includes: • What to buy, take with you and leave behind • Who to go with, where to go and when to depart • To join a mission organisation or plan your own STM • The duration, destination and timing of your mission trip • Types of STMs – evangelistic, preaching or humanitarian • Medical issues, your passport, visa and travelling with money • Emotional and spiritual work before, during and on your return • Understanding culture, language and giving your testimony • How to get the money to go and setting a realistic budget • Food, drink, accommodation and working with the locals • Team dynamics, etiquette, leadership and the team • Security, wisdom and safety – being streetwise • Having a safe and successful STM Mathew Backholer is the co-founder of ByFaith Media (www.ByFaith.co.uk) and films and presents the reality mission series ByFaith TV which airs globally on numerous Christian networks. He has travelled to forty nations of the world and is the author of many books, including: Short-Term Missions: A Christian Guide, Extreme Faith: On Fire Christianity, Revival Fires and Awakenings and Global Revival: Worldwide Outpourings.

Budget Travel, A Guide to Travelling on a Shoestring is a practical and concise guide to travelling the world and exploring new destinations with fascinating opportunities and experiences. Full of anecdotes, traveller’s advice, informative timelines and testimonies, with suggestions, guidance, ideas and need-to-know information to help you survive and thrive on your budget travels and have the adventure of a lifetime! Whether you go solo, join with friends, participate in humanitarian work, join an overland bus trip or take your own vehicle, this book is for you. • Why travel, options, ideas, opportunities and experiences • The style of your trip, what to do, when to go and the cost • Gap year safety, medical and health related issues and remote travel • How to travel with money, cash, ATMs, haggling and remunerations • Your rucksack/backpack, what you need to take and leave behind • The plane ticket, review sites, applying for a visa and airport etiquette • Finding a place to stay, reservations and accommodation checks • Personal hygiene, scams, settling in and a foreign language • Be smart, shrewd and safe, the laws of the land and social media • Food & drink, keeping a journal, culture, writing and photography • Buses, trains, taxis, motorbikes, overlanders and vehicle maintenance • Overland bus trip and researching an organization • Humanitarian and development aid and leading a volunteer-vacation • A working-vacation, advice for leaders and a working team • Can you help me and the end of the journey As a world traveller, Mathew Backholer has visited more than forty countries and has travelled the length of Africa, from Cairo to the Cape, across South-East Asia from India to Vietnam and from Nepal to Russia via China and Mongolia and has survived the Trans-Siberian Railway. He has driven around Europe, visited North Africa six times, and has journeyed alone, with friends, as part of team and as a leader. He is the co-founder of ByFaith Media (www.ByFaith.org) and films and presents the reality mission travel series ByFaith TV which airs globally on numerous networks. He is the author of many books, including: How to Plan, Prepare and Successfully Complete Your Short-Term Mission and Extreme Faith.

Spiritual Warfare contains powerful prayers, declarations and decrees to release God’s blessing into every area of your life, and to break the powers of darkness over you and your family. Discover a commanding five-month collection of strategic prayers and proclamations to strengthen and equip you. These daily biblical declarations and confessions provide a template to renew the mind, so you can press into God’s promises and enjoy an abundant, victorious life in Jesus Christ. Learn how to enter Christ’s fullness and overcome the enemy in countless areas of your life through proclamation and warfare prayers. Including: Living under God’s blessing, healing and wholeness, freedom to sleep in peace, God’s favour on finances, stress defeated, victory over the enemy, Christ’s perfect peace, liberty from rejection, blessings on my home and family, the spirit of boldness, insecurity and inferiority defeated, fear and intimidation overcome, what Christ has done for me, revoking negative confessions, no condemnation in Christ, freedom from evil spirits, the best is yet to come, and much more. This devotional includes a potent introduction to the efficacy of biblical confession in spiritual warfare and provides you with biblical principles to overcome evil, as you enter Christ’s inheritance. Powerfully assert Christ’s victory in your life, as you thrive, renewing your strength each day with hope. Enter the Lord’s generous and abundant life, as you know God’s Word, believe God’s Word and confess God’s Word. Including: Self-Worth and Confidence: No Condemnation in Christ, Justified and Sanctified, I am an Overcomer in Christ, Christ is My Refuge, What Christ Has Done for Me, I am Wonderfully Made Abundant Wealth and Poverty Defeated: Renouncing Poverty, Financial Abundance, Blessed Everywhere, Abundance and No Lack, The Power to get Wealth, I Call Forth My Hundredfold Fear, Anxiety & Panic Attacks Overcome: Overcoming Social Anxiety and Panic Attacks, Freedom to Sleep in Peace, Fear and Intimidation Defeated, Inferiority and Insecurity Defeated, Depression Defeated, Self-Loathing is Defeated Healing and Courage: Stress and God’s Perfect Peace, Healing and Wholeness Suicide, Self-Harm and Death Defeated, Healing Declarations, The Best is Yet to Come, Healing and Youth Renewed Curses and Evil Spirits Defeated: Revoking Negative Confessions, Release from Ungodly Soul Ties, Renouncing Unbelief and Curses, Freedom from Evil Spirits, Freedom from Ungodly Ancestral Ties, Free Yourself from Demons. Victory and Protection: The Armour of God, Victory in Christ, God’s Power Over the Enemy, I am More Than a Conqueror, The Blood of Jesus, Travelling Mercies. Paul Backholer is the co-founder and global director of ByFaith Media (www.ByFaith.org). Paul is an author, broadcaster, explorer and analyst who has appeared on Christian channels globally. As a faith-based documentary maker, he produces and co-presents ByFaith TV. Paul is the author of many books including The Baptism of Fire, The End Times, Heaven, Paradise is Real and How Christianity Made the Modern World. Paul studied theology at Bible College and has travelled to over forty nations working with Christian projects and charities.

Updated in 2020. One man’s compelling journey of faith and intercession. Raised in a dysfunctional family and called for a Divine purpose, he ran from God, yet the world could not break nor tame him. Years later, he met with Jesus Christ in power through a dynamic encounter with the Holy Spirit and was changed forever. Sent out by God, he left employment to claim the ground for Jesus Christ, witnessing signs and wonders, spiritual warfare and deliverance. In a remarkable modern day story of miracles and faith, see how God can take a depressed, defeated individual, teach him faith and use him the glory of God. A gripping true-life story.

God has given us powerful weapons to defeat the enemy, take back the spiritual land in our lives, and to walk in His glory. To do this we must lay deep foundations in Jesus Christ; learn how to discern the voice of the Holy Spirit, and receive heaven sent vision. Know what the Bible says and apply it! This book reveals the foundations of extreme faith – on fire Christianity. It explores biblical truths and routines to shake your world, foundations for fruitfulness, finding God’s will, preparing for His call, evangelism, teaching, missions, intercession, the power of the blood of Jesus, laying on of hands, healing, blessings, curses, deliverance and much more. If you want to have your eyes open to the real spiritual battles that shape our lives, learn the path to victory and dig deep into the meat of God’s Word, then get ready to discover extreme faith in your life, bear fruit for Jesus Christ and live in victory! Mathew Backholer is the co-founder of ByFaith Media (www.ByFaith.org) and films and co-presents ByFaith TV that airs globally on more than a dozen Christian networks. He has travelled to more than 40 nations researching revivals and carrying out mission work. He is the author of a number of books including: Revival Fires and Awakenings, Global Revival – Worldwide Outpourings, Revival Fire – 150 Years of Revivals, Revival Answers – True and False Revivals, and How to Plan, Prepare and Successfully Complete Your Short-Term Mission.

Celtic Christianity is as exciting as it is intriguing, from the first native Christians in the British Isles, through to the great saints such as Patrick and Columba; coupled with the trials and triumphs of the historic Anglo-Saxon kings. For centuries, this unique and isolated expression of Christianity thrived in Britain and Ireland. Together Celtic Christians ignited a Celtic Golden Age of faith and light which spread into Europe. Discover this striking history, how a nation dedicated to God was born and what we can learn from the heroes of Celtic Christianity.

With over 300,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation. This stand-alone resource applies the principles of that book specifically to short term missions. Helping Without Hurting: Short Term MissionsLeader’s Guide is aimed at the preparation and debriefing of short-term missionaries. Accompanying Helping Without Hurting: Short Term Missions Participants’ Guide, it is an ideal resource for church leaders, missions pastors, and youth pastors who make short-term missions planning decisions and desire to prevent inadvertent harm as they enter materially poor communities. With direction for designing STMs well in light of the principles of When Helping Hurt, practical examples from short-term trips to illustrate those principles, and suggested resources for further learning and implimentatin, this guide is an all-in-one manual for leaders. Plus, it shows the content of the participant’s guide with annotation and teaching notes to guide leaders as they facilitate sessions with participants.

For over a thousand years Britain was defined by Christianity, with monarchs dedicating the country to God and national days of prayer that saved the nation in its darkest hours. Discover the continuing legacy of the Bible in Britain, how faith defined its nationhood and the challenges from the 1960s to the present day. 2020 edition.

Budget Travel, A Guide to Travelling on a Shoestring is a practical and concise guide to travelling the world and exploring new destinations with fascinating opportunities and experiences. Full of anecdotes, traveller’s advice, informative timelines and testimonies, with suggestions, guidance, ideas and need-to-know information to help you survive and thrive on your budget travels and have the adventure of a lifetime! Whether you go solo, join with friends, participate in humanitarian work, join an overland bus trip or take your own vehicle, this book is for you. • Why travel, options, ideas, opportunities and experiences • The style of your trip, what to do, when to go and the cost • Gap year safety, medical and health related issues and remote travel • How to travel with money, cash, ATMs, haggling and remunerations • Your rucksack/backpack, what you need to take and leave behind • The plane ticket, review sites, applying for a visa and airport etiquette • Finding a place to stay, reservations and accommodation checks • Personal hygiene, scams, settling in and a foreign language • Be smart, shrewd and safe, the laws of the land and social media • Food & drink, keeping a journal, culture, writing and photography • Buses, trains, taxis, motorbikes, overlanders and vehicle maintenance • Overland bus trip and researching an organization • Humanitarian and development aid and leading a volunteer-vacation • A working-vacation, advice for leaders and a working team • Can you help me and the end of the journey As a world traveller, Mathew Backholer has visited more than forty countries and has travelled the length of Africa, from Cairo to the Cape, across South-East Asia from India to Vietnam and from Nepal to Russia via China and Mongolia and has survived the Trans-Siberian Railway. He has driven around Europe, visited North Africa six times, and has journeyed alone, with friends, as part of team and as a leader. He is the co-founder of ByFaith Media (www.ByFaith.org) and films and presents the reality mission travel series ByFaith TV which airs globally on numerous networks. He is the author of many books, including: How to Plan, Prepare and Successfully Complete Your Short-Term Mission and Extreme Faith.