Making mission trips better.
MissionExcellence helps churches, mission organizations, schools, hosts, and team leaders strengthen short-term mission through the Seven Standards, membership, training, coaching, resources, peer review, and accreditation.
A catalyst for excellence in short-term mission.
MissionExcellence assists mission-sending and mission-receiving entities in pursuing excellence for effective Kingdom service. It offers a practical and authoritative framework for improving the way trips are planned, led, administered, carried out, evaluated, and followed through.
Standards, guidance, training, and accountability.
MissionExcellence helps ministries identify where they are, strengthen what they do, and continue growing toward more effective and God-honoring short-term mission.
Defines
The Seven Standards provide a shared framework for evaluating and improving short-term mission practice.
Equips
Workshops, customized training, webinars, and conferences develop capable leaders, teams, and organizations.
Guides
Coaching and consulting help ministries address practical challenges with experienced support.
Recognizes
Membership, peer review, and accreditation create a pathway toward demonstrated excellence.
A code of best practice for short-term mission practitioners.
The Standards describe the essential commitments that help sending and receiving partners pursue effective, responsible, and God-honoring mission.
God-Centeredness
Seek first God’s glory and Kingdom through purpose, life, doctrine, prayer, godliness, and appropriate methods.
Empowering Partnerships
Build healthy, interdependent, ongoing relationships marked by trust, accountability, and mutual benefit.
Mutual Design
Collaboratively plan each outreach so the methods, activities, and responsibilities serve all participants.
Comprehensive Administration
Demonstrate integrity through truthful communication, risk management, reliable setup, and quality logistics.
Qualified Leadership
Screen, train, and develop mature, skilled, organized, accountable, and empowering leaders.
Appropriate Training
Prepare all participants with biblical, timely, context-sensitive, and ongoing equipping.
Thorough Follow-Through
Evaluate, debrief, follow through, and learn with sending partners, receiving partners, leaders, and participants.
Practical support for ministries that want to improve.
MissionExcellence provides multiple ways to learn, apply the Standards, solve problems, and strengthen leaders, teams, and organizational systems.
Membership and Benefits
Join a community committed to the Standards and receive training, discounts, visibility, resources, and connection.
Explore MembershipCoaching and Consulting
Work through curriculum, training plans, follow-through, risk, crisis management, leadership, and other challenges.
Learn About CoachingCustomized Training
Equip team members, train leaders, or develop a consistent curriculum for your church or organization.
Explore TrainingConferences and Workshops
Learn interactively, build relationships, and apply the Standards through approved gatherings and workshops.
View EventsA pathway from commitment to recognized excellence.
MissionExcellence membership helps churches, organizations, and schools apply the Seven Standards, build internal capacity, participate in ongoing learning, and pursue peer-reviewed accreditation when ready.
Explore MembershipCommit to the Standards
Begin applying the Seven Standards to your short-term mission philosophy, systems, and practice.
Learn and Implement
Attend a Standards Introductory Workshop, participate in ongoing education, and strengthen areas of practice.
Pursue Peer Review
Organizations ready for a higher level of recognition can prepare for peer review and accreditation.
Excellence for sending, receiving, and leading ministries.
MissionExcellence supports those who organize, lead, send, host, receive, train, and evaluate short-term mission.
Churches and Schools
Build stronger processes for selecting, preparing, supporting, leading, and debriefing teams and participants.
Mission Organizations
Strengthen systems, partnerships, leadership, administration, training, and accountability across multiple mission programs.
Hosts and Receiving Partners
Promote mutual design, healthy relationships, appropriate methods, clear expectations, and meaningful follow-through.
Practical learning for every stage of improvement.
MissionExcellence provides multiple forms of learning so ministries can find the guidance and tools most useful to their current needs.
Webinars
Online learning for leaders, mobilizers, churches, and mission organizations.
Articles
Practical thinking on partnerships, training, leadership, follow-through, risk, and mission practice.
Workshops
Interactive opportunities to understand and begin applying the Seven Standards.
Free Downloads
Checklists, worksheets, surveys, planning tools, and other practical resources.
Resource Providers
Trusted partners offering complementary tools and services for the mission journey.
MissionExcellence strengthens the journey. MissionWorks connects the whole pathway.
MissionExcellence is the Strengthen pathway within the MissionWorks family. MissionConnexion inspires and connects, MissionGuide helps people discover opportunities, MissionNext supports matching, MissionLinked helps raise support, and MissionArmour protects travelers. MissionExcellence helps ensure that mission is planned, led, administered, evaluated, and improved with care.
Explore MissionWorksLearn the Standards, strengthen your ministry, and join the community.
Start with the Seven Standards, explore membership, access practical resources, or connect with MissionExcellence for training and guidance.
Explore the Standards
Review the Seven Standards and the core commitments behind excellent short-term mission.
Read the StandardsExplore Membership
Learn about the membership pathway, benefits, commitments, peer review, and accreditation.
View MembershipUse the Resources
Find webinars, articles, workshops, downloads, and trusted resource providers.
Browse ResourcesContact MissionExcellence
Ask about membership, coaching, customized training, accreditation, workshops, or another ministry need.
Connect With UsBetter mission trips begin with better practices.
Apply the Seven Standards, strengthen your leaders and systems, learn alongside other mission practitioners, and pursue excellence one meaningful improvement at a time.