This summer, hundreds of thousands of people will embark on short-term mission trips. Teams will crisscross the world in a matter of hours—an unimaginable opportunity even seventy years ago. The rise of short-term missions (STMs) has left church leaders, missionaries,Read more…
The Effectiveness of Short-term Mission to Africa
Here is another piece on short-term mission. The problem, it suggests, in short-term mission from the ’West’, is not what they see or feel (we were humble and felt that we helped them …) but what but what those onRead more…
Who says “No” to “Mission Trips”?
Here is a staggering statistic that I came across recently. Robert Wuthnow, the eminent sociologist of religion at Princeton University has estimated that up to 1.6 million American Christians take part in overseas “mission trips” each year, with churches spendingRead more…