The Short Term Mission Trips

Hurricane Maria is now known as the most disaster inflicting natural event on record to ever hit Dominica this cause serious damage to the Puerto Rican towns, cities, and their economy. Many American citizens have been asking “how can I help” and many people in our area have been volunteering to collect items for victims of the storm and some have even gone to the island to help firsthand.

After a massive earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, forcing many Haitians to live in unfathomable conditions, and I felt called to help them. I recall sitting in my elementary school classroom, watching live footage of the trauma in Haiti, asking myself how I could help. It wasn’t until my junior year of high school that someone in my church provided me with the perfect opportunity to serve the Lord and Haiti. They told me about “Mission Discovery,” an organization that works to help Haiti and other impoverished countries.

After the Haitian earthquake in January of 2012, the people of Haiti were faced with a serious challenge. Being one of the poorest countries in the world didn’t help the challenge at all. Help was still going to come anyway. Urgent supplies were sent in immediately like food, water, shelter and medicine. These first responders helped look for missing people and recovered the dead. Later, people help rebuild destroyed homes and buildings. Even after all of the natural

This past week I saw that purple and gold tour bus from Louisiana State University in my town, not only surprising me but also forcing me to think back on my childhood in the south. Growing up in southern Louisiana one must be prepared for major storms and flooding at less than a day’s notice. Hurricanes are powerful storms that can ravish towns and can be deadly for people and animals alike. Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast in August of 2005, and I was in the midst of that wreckage. My family and I were living in a small, close-knit community, named St. Amant, about an hour west of New Orleans. On the third day of the hurricane, my family experienced a loss greater than we could have ever imagined. This

About a month ago, I embarked on a mission trip to Chiang Mai, Thailand. My college, Southwest Baptist University, sends out several teams to various countries for different forms of work. My team was sent to Thailand to support a local orphanage, and to share the word of God with a village Hostel. This was my first overseas mission trip, and actually the first time that I had ever been out of the United States. To that point in my life, I had been on several mission trips in the United States. The opportunity to go overseas never presented itself, however. SBU finally gave me that opportunity. The trip to Thailand blessed me in more ways than I could count. I’m so excited to continue going

An event that challenged my way of thinking this past year was when I went on a service-oriented missions trip to Chicago this past summer with my church. The week-long trip proved to be a challenging time, both mentally and physically, and it required me to think outside the box on different occasions in order to solve problems. I went on the trip with 19 other students from my church after we were chosen from among all the people in our youth group. We were seen as the leaders in our church’s youth group, and this missions trip was to teach us how to live out our faith in God and prepare us to lead our peers.

In the synthesis essay prompt there are a multitude of different sources. With three sources supporting mission trips and four against, photos, charts, articles from blogs, and satire, the student has many choices to write the essay with.

For over 75 years, our mission has been to assist impoverished and disadvantaged people overseas, working in the spirit

As soon as word of the camp flood spread, the road to the church was trafficked with hundreds of people bringing food, warm socks, clothes, toiletries, blankets, and everything necessary for basic survival. One important fact to note about Cowen, West Virginia is that the residents live under the poverty line, and the nearest gas station is forty minutes away. Yet, families told the counselors that they cleared out their trailers and their houses of all the blankets they could find to give us everything they had. Dollar stores stayed open two hours later than normal for a two-hour radius around the church so people could bring everything they could afford.

Hurricane Matthew was a devastating storm that hit from Haiti, through the Bahamas, and up the US coastline. This provoking and powerful natural disaster left these places in total destruction and loss of life. The cities had many destroyed buildings, roads and homes destroyed. The suspense of waiting for the storm to hit was intense and scary.Many news crews were at the scenes before, during, and after the hurricane to inform the people and give them somewhat of an idea of what was going on. The governors and mayors were trying to propel people away from the island and warn them of what destruction could happen. All of these people who evacuated didn’t know what they were heading home to when they were allowed back home. Many people thought

Throughout the Mission trip process at YouthWorks older children have the opportunity to guide younger children at a children's day camp. In the summer of 2012 I was given the privilege to travel to West Virginia and work in one of the kids camps. It was stationed in a rougher area and housed children of all races, denominations, and wealth but all had a common need. Many of the kids sought out support and love. The staff had warned us that we needed to show the children support without becoming attached because we would need to leave in a week. My first day at the kids camp I noticed a child sitting in the corner and when i approached him that staff had warned me that he does not speak. The entire first day I spent my time talking to him

Long term exposure in space poses multiple threats to astronauts who are tasked to complete high risk and reward missions. Some of the most prominent threats include loss of muscle mass, decrease in bone density, and weakening of the immune system. Other dangerous potential effects are alteration in circadian rhythms and exposure to radiation. Each effect either has current treatments, or are currently being researched to discover more effective forms to combat the potential dangers they pose.

When I was a little kid, I used to pray and wish for hurricanes come to Puerto Rico. After all, I used to get a free day from school and that was all it matters to me. But when hurricane Maria came, I gained conscious of how ignorant I was and suddenly I didn’t care about a free day of school. Instead, I prayed for the people who lost their homes, people who lost their lives, those who weren’t physically and mentally prepared, and for everything going back to normal, just the way it was. Even though, the hurricanes may bring several negative consequences it also brings unity in the neighborhood to work together in this sad time.

It was a hot, searing day as the sun beat down on my skin. The lush green palm trees provided me shade as I sat and observed my surroundings. Children, barefoot and dirty, wearing tattered and stained clothes were running around laughing and playing. Their joyous giggles put a smile on my face and warmed my heart as I watched them. During the summer of 2017, I served on a ten day mission trip to Tomohon, a small village in Indonesia. I have been on two mission trips to New York and West Virginia previous to this one, but have wanted to go one out of the country for a number of years. So when I was informed about it, I jumped on the opportunity quickly. Leaving for the trip, I was unsure of what to expect; we were told that we would work on whatever projects came up while we were there. Looking back, we could not have planned the incredible experience that unfolded.

The answer continues to present itself to us – education. If we stressed learning in poor countries and communities as much as we do in our first world countries today the world would begin to change. Investing in less intense long term assistance will do more for these countries in the long run. As a society, we still have yet to grasp that concept. Mission trips often travel to different areas and build homes for those that are underprivileged, which seems like a harmless and easy way to help out. However, often by