A New System for Short Term Missionary Teams

The RMI team works hard to facilitate our "pre-trip administration"; all the work that needs to be done on our end, AND on the end of our US Church partners in preparation for a short term team visit to Haiti. Frankly, it's difficult to explain how complicated and protracted this whole process is.

Problem:  This process hasn't changed in many years. It takes full time people on the RMI side managing the load, lots of coordination, lots of paperwork, lots of back and forth communication and documentation, filing, duplication of effort, etc.

Solution: It was time for a change to bring more efficiency and simplicity to a labor intensive process. After being in development for approximately 18 months, we've just launched a whole new system that embraces technology and automation, including online forms, website integration, automated email invoicing, email notifications and tasks, etc. On the RMI side, it takes many of the responsibilities off of one person, and instead shares these tasks with a team of people. On the side of our US churches, we hope our team leaders find that it's simpler and saves them time.

We'll keep learning, and we'll keep tweaking, but we're excited to put the new system to the test.

It all starts with our new Trip Guide.  Feel free to take a look!  Rob's put a ton of time into this development and launch.