Going on a short-term mission trip used to be an unquestioned “good thing to do” with your summer vacation, but we are now realizing that some kinds of short-term mission trips do more harm than good.
So do short-term mission trips make sense any more? Is there a different theological framework we can use to think about and practice short-term missions that can bring wholeness to all involved?
This is what we talk about today with Dr. Rob Haynes, who recently wrote Consuming Mission: Toward a Theology of Short-term Mission and Pilgrimage.
Rob serves as the Director of Education and Leadership at World Methodist Evangelism. He is an author, speaker, teacher, pastor, theologian, and missiologist,
Follow Rob on Twitter, and check out the Consuming Mission website.
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