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Do Short Term Mission Trips Do More Harm Than Good?

24 October 2011
Jason Nelson
Church Planting, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living

Many years ago in Brazil we had a team come over from the UK to do some short term ‘missions’ work (defined in this article as 1-2 week trips run by local churches). What that meant in reality was that 10 young people came over to see our project, run a couple of holiday clubs, do some…