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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Posted by Nehe555 on 01/28 at 11:20 PM
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