Comments on: What in the World is Going On? Dangerous STM question #2 http://stopover.ca/2008/05/01/mark-crocker-response-to-stm-question/ Migrant Worker | Foreign Correspondent | Mark Crocker Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:32:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: mark http://stopover.ca/2008/05/01/mark-crocker-response-to-stm-question/comment-page-1/#comment-191 mark Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:00:49 +0000 http://stopover.ca/2008/05/01/mark-crocker-response-to-stm-question/#comment-191 Another interesting thought is this. Ask any Long-Term Missionary or NGO worker and almost invariably they will let you know that the first experience that they had overseas was a short-term trip ... Short-term trips are not the magic wand that turns everyone into a long-term sojourner. But, they are the method by which most Long-Termers get bitten by the bug (and I do not mean Malaria). Do we reject school because not everyone will go onto College or University? of course not Is the metaphor of Short-term Missions as the feeder-stream or school for long-term missions flawed? of course! It still is a version that we must recognize and develop. Another interesting thought is this. Ask any Long-Term Missionary or NGO worker and almost invariably they will let you know that the first experience that they had overseas was a short-term trip …

Short-term trips are not the magic wand that turns everyone into a long-term sojourner. But, they are the method by which most Long-Termers get bitten by the bug (and I do not mean Malaria).

Do we reject school because not everyone will go onto College or University? of course not

Is the metaphor of Short-term Missions as the feeder-stream or school for long-term missions flawed? of course! It still is a version that we must recognize and develop.

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