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What are your thoughts on mission trips?
Posted on 5/27/16 at 9:52 pm
Posted on 5/27/16 at 9:52 pm
This article- 7 reasons your 2 week trip to Haiti didn't matter has been making the rounds on facebook and a lot of people are up in arms about it.
I tend to agree that most of these people just go on them so they can feel better about themselves and post a bunch of pictures online
I tend to agree that most of these people just go on them so they can feel better about themselves and post a bunch of pictures online
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Posted on 5/27/16 at 9:53 pm to Grim
Good for the folks that do it. It's just not for me.
Posted on 5/27/16 at 9:56 pm to Grim
White people will do all they can to avoid black people in America, but feel Jesus calls them to help the Africans on a tropical island. Go figure.
Posted on 5/27/16 at 9:56 pm to AUCE05
You're a moron 
Posted on 5/27/16 at 9:57 pm to AUCE05
I wonder why?
Posted on 5/27/16 at 10:00 pm to Grim
Eye roll at the mission trips to tropical beaches. They come back and all I can muster is, "Nice tan."
Posted on 5/27/16 at 10:00 pm to AUCE05
The people down there are extremely appreciative of anything you do for them and generally don't act like a bunch hooligans. There ain't no food stamps coming to help those people.
If you've never been on a mission trip, you don't realize just how hopeless their situation is, and the fact that any little bit helps.
If you've never been on a mission trip, you don't realize just how hopeless their situation is, and the fact that any little bit helps.
Posted on 5/27/16 at 10:02 pm to Grim
That article is spot on for the most part. I realized pretty quickly that I wasn't doing any good volunteering when I was dying from anxiety while doing it.
Posted on 5/27/16 at 10:02 pm to Grim
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I tend to agree that most of these people just go on them so they can feel better about themselves and post a bunch of pictures online
Projecting?
Some do, many go and actually do some good
Posted on 5/27/16 at 10:03 pm to The Pirate King
I have been on missions to inner city America. We targeted young black males. I can tell you, with 100% confidence, they need as much, or more help.
Posted on 5/27/16 at 10:04 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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many go and actually do some good
The ignorance of the OT never ceases to amaze me. Does show you how self-centered and miserable a lot of people are though that hide it in their everyday lives, but project it online.
Posted on 5/27/16 at 10:06 pm to Grim
I agree with pretty much everything in this article. It's even worse when parents broadcast on Facebook or their place of employment to try and get fundraiser support for their kid to go preach about Jesus and "give a man a fish" instead of "teach a man to fish" at the low low price of $3000.
Posted on 5/27/16 at 10:08 pm to The Pirate King
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Does show you how self-centered and miserable a lot of people are though that hide it in their everyday lives, but project it online.
A few are just cynical and negative because they are incapable of having empathy for things they dont understand. They project that negativity regularly.
Posted on 5/27/16 at 10:10 pm to Grim
I went on one where we dug a ditch and helped build a shed for a school building so the children could have a place to learn indoors.
The little shite hole didn't have equipment at all, so we had to dig the foundation with shovels and pick axes. There were giant rocks we had to remove by hand with crowbars, and the shed was built out of the shitty little materials they could find, but they were left with a place to learn indoors.
It was miserable and hard work and I enjoyed none of it.
That helped.
But I agree that some mission trips are bullshite.
It's easy to know which ones are and which ones aren't.
If your mission trip mattered, you probably didn't smile too much, it was hard work, you stayed in a shitty area, had diarrhea, and have no desire to go back.
If your mission trip didn't matter, you probably had cell reception, it wasn't too bad, you took lots of pictures and recommended it as a good time to you friends when you got back. The food was pretty good and you slept in a hotel with running water at night.
The little shite hole didn't have equipment at all, so we had to dig the foundation with shovels and pick axes. There were giant rocks we had to remove by hand with crowbars, and the shed was built out of the shitty little materials they could find, but they were left with a place to learn indoors.
It was miserable and hard work and I enjoyed none of it.
That helped.
But I agree that some mission trips are bullshite.
It's easy to know which ones are and which ones aren't.
If your mission trip mattered, you probably didn't smile too much, it was hard work, you stayed in a shitty area, had diarrhea, and have no desire to go back.
If your mission trip didn't matter, you probably had cell reception, it wasn't too bad, you took lots of pictures and recommended it as a good time to you friends when you got back. The food was pretty good and you slept in a hotel with running water at night.
This post was edited on 5/27/16 at 10:24 pm
Posted on 5/27/16 at 10:10 pm to Grim
I've been on short term mission trips (2 weeks to one month) just about every year for the past 20 years and I've also been a missionary overseas and had groups come to help us.
While it's probably true some people go on these trips for the wrong reasons, the majority go to help.
And groups don't need to go and spend a week and give some money and then leave and never go back. The most effective mission trips are the ones that build a relationship over time. You also don't want to build a dependency on you.
It should be about meeting needs and sharing Jesus.
While it's probably true some people go on these trips for the wrong reasons, the majority go to help.
And groups don't need to go and spend a week and give some money and then leave and never go back. The most effective mission trips are the ones that build a relationship over time. You also don't want to build a dependency on you.
It should be about meeting needs and sharing Jesus.
Posted on 5/27/16 at 10:13 pm to AUCE05
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I have been on missions to inner city America. We targeted young black males. I can tell you, with 100% confidence, they need as much, or more help.
While I agree, they have help in the form of government assistance that will give them everything they need to survive, and if they're willing to work hard, the means to make themselves a successful future. The people in these third world countries don't have that luxury.
See if you're singing the same tune when a 12 year old girl (who has dirt floors and is one of the wealthiest people in town) tells you that she wants to be a doctor...You have to fake it and smile, even though you know there's not a chance on God's green earth that she could ever do that.
Forgive me for helping those people first, even if it's just bringing medicine, hygiene products, electronics, and clothes.
They need our help more. Period. End of story.
Posted on 5/27/16 at 10:17 pm to Grim
The point of a missions trip isn't to win your approval. It's to share the gospel with those who have never heard it. That can be done by building, planting, healing, and/or preaching. Helping them in this world is good but secondary. Jesus died for the prince and pauper. If the gospel is not involved, it isn't a mission trip.
Posted on 5/27/16 at 10:21 pm to Grim
Some do it for the right reasons. Some don't. The fact of the matter is that nobody can know what another's true inner motivation is, but regardless its people helping people.. Nothing truly bad about that.
Posted on 5/27/16 at 10:21 pm to AUCE05
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I can tell you, with 100% confidence, they need as much, or more help.
This is wrong in so many ways it's sad.
The poorest person in America is entitled to:
Government provided housing, food, water, Healthcare, a cell phone, and money every month to help them live. They also are guaranteed education all the way through high school, and even college with a little work, and then there are a plethora of jobs available.
The poorest person in Africa is entitled to:
Dieing early so they don't have to watch their own family die brutal malnourished deaths in front of them
This post was edited on 5/27/16 at 10:26 pm
Posted on 5/27/16 at 10:22 pm to Grim
Good points in the article. I know I would be pretty worthless going so I give to a group that I think is doing some good on an ongoing basis.
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