Mack and Leanne's Guide to Short-term Mission Trips

I can summarize this article with the phrase “You reap what you sow”. In this track that’s our life, there are definitely going to be some difficulties, and in some of these we may have to take some risks for our own good. But the things that may be go wrong in our trip, are external forces that we can’t control, so as risks, and the seven aspects about risks of this guideline are just the key point of how to handle it and encourage us about it. The ones that really caught my attention were: Jesus rewards risk: that’s so cool! But we are soon to forget this! These must be our pillar to take some risks for own good; Risk on things that are worth it: Come on! We are not talking about risking two hundred bucks in one all-in poker bet! But we should take the ones that will build us, that will build trust upon the people, maybe as the article says, eating some risky food to build trust, doing like some cultural thing that seems risky for you; When something bad happens, and something bad will happen, be calm and compliant: …Something bad will happen? OF COURSE. I mean, we are representing the body of Christ in there and we have a big enemy that will just do anything to ruin our trip, but we have a bigger God that already won the war, the only thing that we need to do is ask for God for patience. There’s a verse in the Bible in Ephesians 6 that talks about that we need to wear the armor of God because when the bad day comes, we need to be prepared. The Bible here is implicitly saying that, THE BAD DAY WILL COME! And we must be prepared for this, because if that day hits the date when we are in Mancora, as we lose our patience, we may lose our goal, and most importantly, we may lose some souls for Jesus. We may not change them; Jesus is the only one, who can make a change, but we are the ones that throw the seeds, and Jesus will handle the rest. But we can be mediators in this growing by building up some trust. There are going to be things that we need to take some good risks, In Mancora there can be some trust issues, language issues, etc. For these stuff, risk is good and important.