(I highly recommend you read the whole article as the author has excellent follow up tips to help maximize the mission’s experience for the short-termer. The Article is not at all negative, though I tend to be a bit about this subject. However, I always appreciate people who are honest in confessing that the fruit resulting from the missions trips needs to be questioned by all who go.) “The last twenty years have seer’ all explosion of mission trips. Some estimate that a minimum of one million Americans go on mission trips annually at a cost of one billion dollars (p 312)…… The primary result of most trips is more trips….. I have never heard anyone say that their church’s regular missions bud get (outside of giving for mission trips) has grown because of their mission trips. It is clear, however, that an Increasing proportion of many missions budgets is going to help support the trips. One of my friends told me that their church had notified a long-supported missionary couple that they wouldn’t be able to support them any longer because they needed the funds for more missions trips. While most new missionaries have taken short-term mission trips, there is little evidence of a surge of new long-term missionaries.” (p312)
(“Six Challenges for the Church in Missions” , by David Mays. EMQ July 2006 Vol 42,No.3. page 312-313)
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