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SHORT-TERM MISSION TRIPS: Impact on the Global south.

Why try a Mission trip.  Thirteen years ago, I joined a team that came from Intervarsity USA to do a short-term mission trip to Kenya. I was among the three Kenyans that joined 45 American students in a three-month short trip mission.  When I reflect, I can tell that this became part of the journey that has defined who I am becoming.   They posted me to Kakuma refugee camp with 2 other American girls and what I thought was a familiar mission seized being one immediately we reached the land, and everything was unfamiliar. Over the last 10 year  s, I have had an opportunity of leading many short-term mission trips. Benefits of Short-term mission trips 1.     Exposure to global issues affecting global missions: As a way of involvement in Global missions’ short-term mission trips from the west to third world countries. These trips have been very helpful in exposing many people to the realities of global issues and missions, which thereafter enable people to make a considerat