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June, 2006

Thoughts on Short Term Missions

At every stop as we go about seeking the team of people God is using to send us to Africa we are approached by folks wanting to be involved in short-term mission work in Africa. There is a select group of people who God has given a particular interest in Africa and they are eager to follow God's leading to that massive continent.

There are a number of things that we spent a great deal of time thinking about while in Malawi in 2003-04 on our own short-term mission: short-term missions has been near the top of the list.

We live in a radically different age of missions than even 30 years ago. The ability to travel inexpensively and quickly has opened up cross-cultural missions to an unprecedented number of people. Nearly every church we speak in has had short-term mission trips...some have teams of people going every year to different places in the world.
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