I like that, not working for, but working beside. It can be easy to look down and try to help, but what's needed is to come alongside and work with. Kind of like what Jesus did for the human race. Great video! Thanks for sharing!
Mission trips are a big scam. Many years ago I was overseas with an American mission group. The guy from the local church heading the construction asked me how much money those people spent on airline tickets. I said around $30,000. He said that with that money he could hire a few people from the church that were unemployed and have the job done three times faster and better and it would be enough money to start building another church. They said that they didn't need the mission group they just needed the money to hire unemployed local Christians. It is like that everywhere. Lots of poor foreign churches need help but all the US Christians do is to waste millions in airline tickets to go to countries were they are not needed. I know a pastor that is always bragging about all the mission trips he did. I asked why he did the trips. I asked if the locals could have done what he did. He said that yes but he enjoyed traveling. Mission trip became traveling and sightseeing. I met a pastor from Pakistan a while ago. He had many projects to do in his country but US churches wouldn't help him. There are good Christians in every country that can do the job. Just stop wasting money in airline tickets and send them the money. The cost of supporting an American missionary overseas sometimes is 3 times higher than supporting a local person. The guy who invented those modern mission trips was a travel agent not a Christian.
There would be no need for missions if the people were empowered & their countries were not burdened with debt from more wealthy countries like the U.S. , in which they can only pay down the interest but also loose control of their own country resources.
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I love seeing the beauty in my people and not just how we are portrayed through the media ❤️🇭🇹
I loved "they didn't do it for us, they did it with us"
I like that, not working for, but working beside. It can be easy to look down and try to help, but what's needed is to come alongside and work with. Kind of like what Jesus did for the human race. Great video! Thanks for sharing!
I learned a lot from this video. Thank you!
Mission trips are a big scam. Many years ago I was overseas with an American mission group. The guy from the local church heading the construction asked me how much money those people spent on airline tickets. I said around $30,000. He said that with that money he could hire a few people from the church that were unemployed and have the job done three times faster and better and it would be enough money to start building another church. They said that they didn't need the mission group they just needed the money to hire unemployed local Christians. It is like that everywhere. Lots of poor foreign churches need help but all the US Christians do is to waste millions in airline tickets to go to countries were they are not needed. I know a pastor that is always bragging about all the mission trips he did. I asked why he did the trips. I asked if the locals could have done what he did. He said that yes but he enjoyed traveling. Mission trip became traveling and sightseeing. I met a pastor from Pakistan a while ago. He had many projects to do in his country but US churches wouldn't help him. There are good Christians in every country that can do the job. Just stop wasting money in airline tickets and send them the money. The cost of supporting an American missionary overseas sometimes is 3 times higher than supporting a local person. The guy who invented those modern mission trips was a travel agent not a Christian.
There would be no need for missions if the people were empowered & their countries were not burdened with debt from more wealthy countries like the U.S. , in which they can only pay down the interest but also loose control of their own country resources.
Well said 👏