African Planter

There’s this section of the article that says if short-term missions trip help, It says that they call them learning opportunities, because short-term missions implies agenda and something to do over there, even though that change doesn’t happen in weeks because life is way too much complex for that. Both of these definitions apply to us, because as I think of this mission trip, changes don’t happen in a week, but we can make a change for a lifetime in a week and as we do that, we have a lot of opportunities to learn about God and His church over there. Also the statement about the partnerships with the churches, what was the key of that partnership? Someone that’s a good listener and is trying to learn, this applies to us in the very same way, because this is what this is about! The relationships that we build over there, are going to make the change, over this mission trip been seen as a community work, relationships are going to be the key to the change of a lifetime, not only to them as one of the goals of our mission trip, but also to us, as we learn so much more about God and the importance of missions and sharing the gospel. I also agree with the statement that talks about that many churches in America have been inspired to think about the needs of the world, but they may not know of anyone who can play the role, so do they cultivate those people? 1. Cross cultural change opportunities 2. Internationals that have come to live in America 3. Sending individuals. Number one and three are the key statement that applies to us because in Panama (personal opinion) many churches may be inspired into the world needs but neither of them doesn’t know how to play that role. We have in Crossroads cross-cultural opportunities nearby, as a bilingual church, people who talk English and Spanish interacting may be learning mutually about the other culture and how to relate to them. Also this church have send and support individuals to missions, we have to Gumbs, the Galvez family, I mean, as part of Crossroads Bible Church, we as a group of youth, are learning about the needs of the world, and in Mancora we will learn a lot more about them.