Saturday, January 28, 2006

Short-term Missions

can short-term missions sometimes do more harm than good?  according to the author of a prelude article i read, YES! that article hit me really hard since I was a veteran of two mission trips.  one strong argument was that the money spent on sending people to third-world countries to build fences could be instead used to hire local people to build fences and more.  i really understood that, because during my philippines mission trips several years ago, we did build a fence for a local church.  in retrospect, the money i spent to fly there could have been donated to the church, and the church could have used that money to hire local workers to build more fences, or maybe even add walls to their church building.  i began to see the authors argument…

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Q & A on Dreadlocks


Q.  How do you wash your hair?  Or do you wash at all?

A.  I can buy dread shampoo, and I used to.  But now I use non-fragrance bar soap.  I’m specific about non-fragrance because fragrance will stay in your hair.  That results in scalp itch, and that’s no good.  I can never use conditioner, because that would mess with my dreadlock tangles.  Instead, my dreadwax actually conditions my hair for me.  So when I was my hair, I just lather up the soap in my hands and rub it all over my scalp.  When I’m done, I just rinse it off.  I have to rinse for a long time because I don’t want any soap residue.  That would cause scalp itch as well.  After that, I whip my dreads around to get the water out, then I wrap it in a towel for several minutes before letting it down to air dry.  When I have my hair down, it’s usually cause I’m letting it dry out.  I don’t want to tie it up when it’s wet because then my dreads would get musty-smelling.  Yuck…



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