Terms Used & Definitions
Terms used on this website (click for definition):
Covenant Members
Field Facilitators
Goer-Guests
Goer-Guest Followers
Goer-Guest Leaders
Host Receivers
Intended Receptors
MISTM-Grid
On-Field
Participant
Participant Trilogy
Peer Review (PR)
Peer Review Team (PRT)
Post-Field
Practitioners (STM Practitioners)
Pre-Field
Process Trilogy
Provisional Members
Senders
Sending Entities
Sending Supporters
Sponsor Organizations (STM
Service Providers)
Standards Introductory
Workshop (SIW)
STM (Short-Term Mission)
STM Training
Conference
Several terms have been extracted from Maximum Impact Short-Term Mission by Peterson/Aeschliman/Sneed, Minneapolis, MN: STEMPress, 2003. ISBN 0-9711258-1-3. Used by permission.
Covenant Members — organizations which proceed from Provisional Member status to permanent member status. Covenant Members factually demonstrate that they are regularly complying with the Standards of Excellence as determined by their Peer Review and completion of all membership requirements.
Field Facilitators —
field missionaries or national host leaders who serve as on-field
liaisons for the on-field STM arrangements. Field Facilitators have
management and communication responsibility for the STM
receiving-side (field administration, field set-up, field program
support, field logistical support and field follow-up). Field
Facilitators mutually design every short-term outreach in
conjunction with the
Sending Entity(s).
Goer-Guests — those who go to
the field to serve; specifically includes two subsets: all of the
Goer-Guest Leaders and all of the
Goer-Guest Followers (i.e., all
of the individuals or team members who are being sent)
Goer-Guest Followers —
individual short-term missionaries or team members who do not have
major leadership responsibilities.
Goer-Guest Leaders — any
short-term mission leaders sent to the field by the
Sending Entity(s). They go to the
field like
Goer-Guests Followers, but have
certain leadership responsibilities with respect to the STM
project. Note that almost all Goer-Guest Leaders will often need to
submit to other leadership — either other Goer-Guest Leaders or
Field Facilitators.
Host Receivers — the on-field
persons who receive short-term missionaries; specifically includes
two subsets:
Field Facilitators and
Intended Receptors (i.e.,
everyone at the on-field location: full-time missionaries, other
expatriates, national pastors and local leaders, local nationals
and any local organizations which they represent such as churches,
civic organizations, NGOs, etc.)
Intended Receptors — the people on the field who will receive the Goer-Guests' service or mission activity. Intended receptors can also be aspects of God's creation (animals, natural resources, etc.) and aspects of human creation (civic or corporate structures, oppressive systems, etc.)
MISTM-Grid — a visual tool
providing an overview for virtually all STMs. The MISTM-Grid
(Maximum Impact Short Term Mission) combines the three sets of STM
participants (
Participant Trilogy) on a Y-axis
and the three STM time periods (
Process Trilogy) on an X-axis. The
result is a 9-cell matrix or 'grid' which shows certain ethical
responsibility all participants may have with other participants
throughout the entire STM process.
© 1999 R. Wayne Sneed / Roger P. Peterson. Revised 2001,
2002, 2003. Used by permission.
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On-Field — time period when Goer-Guests are on-site with the Host Receivers for their intended mission outreach. It exists from the moment of arrival to the moment of departure.
Participant — anyone involved in
the STM outreach; does not mean Goer-Guests only! When used
on this website, it refers to Senders, Goer-Guests and Host
Receivers (see
Participant Trilogy).
Participant Trilogy — the three sets of people always involved in any STM endeavor: Senders, Goer-Guests, and Host Receivers. (Based on 3 John 5-8 and Matt. 10:40-42, Senders, Goer-Guests, and Host Receivers are assumed to be equal participants in any short-term mission endeavor.)
Peer Review (PR) — a process in which an adoptive member's STM program is reviewed by other SOE members as a step toward reaching or maintaining Covenant Member status. The purpose is to encourage, motivate, and challenge the reviewee toward excellence in all their short-term mission efforts.
Peer Review Team (PRT) — a team of 3-5 key STM personnel from at least three different SOE organizations who agree to review an adoptive member’s short-term mission program. The team must include an experienced facilitator (recommended/approved by the SOE office) and 2-4 additional reviewers who are provisional or covenant SOE members. PRTs can be formed locally (within a given city or region) or nationally. PRTs meet at the location of the reviewee’s choosing and help provide constructive feedback, peer mentoring, relationships, and accountability.
Post-Field — time period after the on-field portion of the outreach ends. Post-field continues indefinitely for all participants, with perhaps the greatest impact in Goer-Guests and Intended Receptors.
Practitioners (STM
Practitioners) — Sending Entities, Field Facilitators and other
associate support groups which intentionally perform some aspect of
short-term mission.
Pre-Field — time period before the
on-field portion of the outreach begins. Pre-field begins at the
moment of outreach conception, regardless of who, where, or how the
outreach was conceived.
Process Trilogy — three
consecutive time periods through which a short-term mission
outreach progresses: Pre-Field, On-Field, and Post-Field.
Provisional Members — organizations which adopt the Standards of Excellence by submitting a Provisional Member Application and Follow-Up Questionnaire. Provisional Member status is the initial entrance status for every church, agency, school, or other organization, and is available for up to three years. By the end of the three-year period, Provisional Members proceed to Covenant Member status by attending a Standards Introductory Workshop (SIW), going through a Peer Review, attending an STM Training Conference, and submitting annual renewal forms and membership fees.
Senders — those who send short-term missionaries; specifically includes two subsets: all of the Sending Supporters and the Sending Entity(s).
Sending Entities — organizations which provide the
Pre-Field and Post-Field administrative structure for
Goer-Guests. Sending Entities have
management and communication responsibility on the STM
sending-side. Sending Entities mutually design every short-term
outreach in conjunction with the
Field Facilitators. Sending
entities include churches, mission agencies, schools, and other
Christian organizations that send short-term missionaries anywhere
in the world.
Sending Supporters —
individuals, families, organizations, or others who voluntarily
support a short-term missionary in one or more of the following
ways:
1 Prayer support
2 Financial support
3 Logistical support
4 Emotional support
5 Communication support
6 Re-entry support
(adapted from
Serving as Senders by Neal Pirolo, San Diego CA: Emmaus
Road, International, 1991, ISBN 1-880185-00-8)
Sponsor Organizations
(STM Service Providers) — groups or other organizations that
provide training, networking, products, or other support services
to STM efforts.
Standards Introductory
Workshop (SIW) — an SOE-sponsored 6-8 hour seminar for
the key STM personnel of
Provisional Member organizations
to help them understand how to achieve all seven Standards and how
to form and manage their own
Peer Review process. Workshops are
interactive, use case studies, small group discussions, lectures,
and provide training in
MISTM-grid theory in order to help
Provisional Members proceed to
Covenant Member status. This is a
one-time required workshop. SIWs will be piggy-backed onto
STM Training Conferences to
reduce time and travel expenses and so that you can fulfill both
training requirements in just one conference.
STM — Short-Term Mission
STM Training Conference — a nationwide, on-going conference held in the U.S. where an entire track or the entire conference is devoted to STM training. Attendance and participation in at least one STM Training Conference once every three years is required to maintain Covenant Member status. Some of these STM Training Conferences will also host the Standards Introductory Workshop to reduce time and travel expenses and so that you can fulfill both training requirements in just one conference.