Cory Trenda

After the Trip (eBook, ePUB)

Unpacking Your Crosscultural Experience

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award Can a one-time crosscultural experience truly be life-changing? Veteran trip leader and intercultural guide Cory Trenda says yes—if we let the trip launch a journey of integrating the experience into our ongoing life. In After the Trip Trenda provides a unique guide for individuals and teams to make the most of a crosscultural trip after returning home. Readers will find help with navigating the crucial reentry process, remembering and sharing key stories, interweaving new insights into everyday life, and engaging in continuing learning and service. Combining practical tips, reflections, and stories from Trenda's own decades of crosscultural travel, this is an essential resource for organizations, churches, schools, and all travelers who want crosscultural trips to be a catalyst for lasting good. The trip itself is just the beginning; real life change happens after the trip.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: IVP
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780830874057
• Artikelnr.: 55037462

Autorenporträt

For more than three decades, Cory Trenda has worked with international humanitarian organizations and led crosscultural trips to dozens of countries. A senior director for World Vision, he is the author of Reflections from Afar: Unexpected Blessings for Those Who "Have" from Those Who Don't and lives with his wife, Janet, in southern California. When he's not traveling internationally to promote poverty alleviation efforts, he works to bridge cultures in the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What Now?
2. Coming Home with Gifts
3. Mining for Gold
4. Treasures on the Journey
5. Keeping the Lines Open
6. Make Your Next Trip Your Best Trip
7. The Key to a Life-Changing Journey
Afterword: The Trip Is Just the Beginning
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Appendix: Eight Great Questions
Notes