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What a life I lead. After going thru a horrific pre-boarding process in Lima (six separate serpentine lines lasting nearly two hours), I hopped the re...
At your request, I'm adding another mission trip blog. Here's some quick tips that should help you: As a mission project leader, you've got to come...
This morning (I'm typing this at stinkin' 6 a.m. - that's how committed to you guys I am), Karen and I are flying off to Hong Kong to debrief Talia an...
Continued from My worst project - Lesson 2: Not matching setup to the expectations It was the summer of 1988 and there we were in the steamy Yucata...
Continued from My worst project - Lesson 1: Picking the wrong leaders Because I delegated setup to Henry, I put myself at the mercy of his "no prob...
Continued from 5 Lessons from my worst short-term mission project I saw Heidi Neulander in Newport News recently. She's in her 30's now, but she wa...
I was 29 and was leading my first short-term mission project. Henry had gone on ahead of me to set up the project at the beach-side camp called Porven...
Over and over again I watch the very missionaries I've mobilized through a short-term experience tell me, "It's too much work. I don't want to host an...
Interesting article in Time suggests that the short-term missions movement goes far beyond the Christian realm. A tide of overseas volunteerism is r...
Short-term missions can have an incredible impact on the participants, if they are truly broken of their western ethnocentrism and exposed to the extr...
