EPISODE 21: Someone Has to Go First: What a Survey Trip Actually Is
SUMMER SHORT-TERM TRIP SERIES: SURVEY TRIPS
My favorite kind of short-term trip is the one hardly anyone is planning.
The Short-Term Trip called a Survey Trip goes where no long-term workers live. Where if you look up the city in a missions database, you get back almost nothing. Where the people you ask say — no, nobody is working there right now. Not that we know of.
In this episode I define what a Survey Trip actually is — not a Vision Trip, not a Professional Trip, but the specific kind of trip designed to make the unknown known, rip the doors of impossibility off your imagination, and come back with a Caleb and Joshua report: I was there, I saw it, here's what God can do.
Then I tell the story of the Survey Trip that changed my life. Three years of waving around a photo of a white sand beach. A team of six brave, quaking, resolute souls. The kinds of things we did on that first survey trip to an unreached, unengaged people group where no long-term workers lived in the city of a million Muslims.
You'll discover what a Survey Trip IS and how to plan one illustrated by this Survey trip that led my family and I to move there.
I also give you the full Survey Trip objectives list — ten questions to ask yourself that will tell you if a Survey Trip might be what God is asking of you next.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
✔️ Across the Street and Around the World Book
✔️ What Kind of Trip Type are you Planning? Checklist
✔️ Group Training Package for the Inviting Muslims to Follow Jesus Course
✔️ India From the Inside Podcast Episode 12
✔️ Neighbors and Nations Course
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Next episode — the Short-Term Trip Summer Series finale: a survey trip to southern Bangladesh. Two millennial vloggers, a retired businessman, a hired car, and eight million Bengali Muslims with almost no workers. The vlogs are on YouTube and you can watch along.
Send me an email at [email protected] and let me know what type of trip you're planning and if you'd consider a Survey Trip!
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