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Short Term Missions: Coupling Education and Service

by Rhett Smith on July 16, 2008

This last March I led a team of 7 of us to Mexico City where we served with two of our partners Amextra and Partners in Hope. This was the second time that I took a team on this trip, and in all of my experiences in mission trips this has stood out as the [...]

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Short Term Missions: Are They a Waste of Money and Non-Effective?

by Rhett Smith on July 15, 2008

Andrew Jones had a post the other day on “Are Short Term Missions a Waste of Money?.” Andrew has 10 very good responses, which stem from the article in the Washington Post called “Churches Retool Mission Trips.” Here are some thought provoking and interesting statements from the article: Critics scornfully call such trips “religious tourism” [...]

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