According to MissionWorks over two million Americans participate in short-term domestic and international mission trips each year. Unfortunately, even those with best of intentions can wreak havoc, many times unintentionally, on the community they intend to help. In When Helping Hurts Brian Fikkertt and Steve Corbett provide a Biblical framework for those that want to go on, and those that have have gone on, short-term mission trips by asking the reader to interrogate their motivations and assumptions for wanting to serve in addition to evaluating their own attitudes and beliefs about poverty.
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