Remember that old Sesame Street song, “One of these things is not like the other, one of these things doesn’t belong, can you guess which thing is not like the other, before I finish this song?”
Well, give it a go. Which of these is not like the others and why:
- A church has a tradition of taking its high school students to Mexico with a para-church ministry to build houses in a kind of Holy Spring Break.
- A small group of medical professionals travel to the Philippines to run a week’s worth of medical clinics in poor slums.
- Volunteers join in rebuilding efforts after a disaster in a third-world country.
- A church sends a group of members to the same village in Africa ten years in a row, the ministry they do differing depending on the needs of the villagers.
So did you figure it out? Which one is not like the others and why? (And why does it matter?).
You take a guess and next post I’ll continue on with my topic of what kind of Short-Term Missions really make a difference.
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