Forever Changing

Why do we go on ’short’ term missions trips? I for one see a problem with them. For the ammount of money that you raise just to get you there, isn’t as useful as if you had sent them the money.

The fact is that most missions trips overseas are into $2000/ person. Now if your going for over 6 months I can justify the money to get you there, so that you are really there to make a change in a community.

When one gones on week long trips it’s the not the people that you go to that bennifit the most, it’s YOU. The shakes up your world view a little, soon after coming back you don’t see everything the way you always have. It’s then only that you can do something in your NEIGHBROURHOOD! It’s because you went away and saw things, that now when your home, you see your community differently.

It’s not hard to be anywhere in the world & in your own neighbourhood to see needs of the people. You don’t have to go half way across the world to find needs.

The first and most basic that everyone can do is LOVE. Love eachother, love thy neighbour, go out and find those who need God’s love the most. You need to get down and dirty, because it’s easy to love your friends, but it takes somethin to go downtown & love a beggar, street worker, youth in need.

Go out and love oneanother.

Psalm 40:15; May those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!”
be appalled at their own shame.

And so let those who ridicule be to their own

Psalm 41:1; Blessed is he who has regard for the weak;
the LORD delivers him in times of trouble.

And so let the Lord give strength to those who are weak, for the first shall be last and the last shall be first.