Rethinking the $3,000 Missions Trip

Something to consider and act on.

Perhaps some of these trips can also be detrimental to other forms of ministry. Could it be that some short-term missions trips siphon money away from career-missionary efforts?

I’m concerned that for believers who are well off, mission trips can become a form of “spiritual tourism”, where people believe that their ability to travel to other places and see mission work (and even participate for a short time) can take the place of their own actual participation in God’s work in a local level. If a church or individual has the resources to go on a mission trip, praise God. But I would suggest that there are many more cost-effective and locally valuable ways to get a heart for service and see God’s work advanced.