Short-Term Missions

Vacation or Mission?

Do short-term mission trips do anyone any good? Do short-term mission trips do anyone any good? Each year, American Christians spend more than a billion dollars on short-term mission trips. Some go to impoverished areas of North America. Some go to more exotic places — irreligious nations, Christian...

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Crossing Borders – Camp...

OK, so you’ve been there, done that and got a drawer full of camp T-shirts. Then perhaps you are ready to expand your Christian growth in a new and...

Crossing Borders 2011 –...

In December 2011, Crossing Borders mission team had an eventful trip to Mexico to deliver shoebox gifts to our partner churches. This turned out to be...

Waters of Life

Sometimes we forget what a blessing it is to be able to turn on a faucet and have fresh, clean, cool water gush out. Many are not so fortunate....

Mozambique Adventure

I expected our trip to Mozambique to be challenging. What I didn’t expect was that my assistant would be arrested before we had hardly started! ...