The following article focuses the attention on how participants in Short Term Mission (STM) from Norway understand the practice they have been part of. In the first part the article investigates what motivates participation in STM, and how STM is understood to be influential in life-choices. The second part of the article introduces “formation” as a theoretical lens. In this part the article investigates the working hypothesis suggesting that STM from Norway is best understood as a formative trip. The material is constructed from a survey with 153 respondents.

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短期任务和编队–挪威的观点

下一篇文章重点关注挪威短期任务（STM）的参与者如何理解他们所参与的实践。在第一部分中，本文研究了促使STM参与的动机，以及STM如何被理解为对人生选择的影响。本文的第二部分介绍“形成”作为理论上的镜头。在这一部分中，文章将对工作假设进行研究，这表明最好将挪威的STM理解为一次形成性旅行。该材料是根据对153位受访者的调查而构建的。