Medical Missions Response is also a provisional member of the Standards of Excellence in Short Term Missions. For your knowledge and public accountability, MMR adheres to the Seven Standards established by the SOE program and undergoes peer review to maintain the standards. Below is a statement from the Standards of Excellence in Short Term Missions that embodies our beliefs.
As short-term mission practitioners we strive to appropriately express God’s redemptive mission throughout his world (missio Dei), and to glorify him — the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — in everything we do. We acknowledge that many people are affected by our involvement in short-term mission — some positively, some negatively, some whom we may never meet. We further acknowledge that short-term mission participants include not merely those who go, but those who send (3 John 5-8) and those who receive (Matt. 10:40-42). We also acknowledge that short-term mission is not an isolated event — but rather an integrated process over time affecting all participants. This process consists of pre-field, on-field, and post-field stages. We desire to pursue excellence and to strengthen our overall effectiveness worldwide. We do so not in a legalistic or rigid manner, but in a redemptive manner by voluntarily adopting and committing ourselves to the Standards of Excellence in our short-term mission efforts.
These Standards are intended to encourage the pursuit of excellence in all short-term mission efforts, not establish legal regulations or liability.
