Jun 26

Take the Survey

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truefalse.gifDid you notice the new link at the top of the page?

a) what link?

b) yes, and I already clicked

c) not interested

d) I never do web surveys …

Anyways, if you are still wondering what this post is about … look up at the title bar and there, somewhere right of ‘About Mark’, lies the new addition – ‘Take the Survey’. Click it and you will be brought to a short 10 question survey.

If you are interested in finding out how your own Short Term Mission team preparation stacks up, then take 4 minutes out of your life and click through the survey.

Once you are done, I will send you your results …

Enjoy!

One Response to “Take the Survey”

  1. mark Says:
    July 3rd, 2008 at 11:46 pm

    A survey respondent emailed me with this question:

    “question 6 seemed to have no ‘other’ option – I felt that {ORGANIZATION} was a little naive in that area-

    Here is my answer:
    I tend to rank Short Term Missions trips to a scale (complete the survey to find out what that means). For the longest time I saw some types of mission trips as weak and ineffectual, but the longer I am in this, i see just how many people I respect in Missions, often actually began with really terrible missions. The first lousy experiences inspired them onward, and now they are participating in better mission.

    Additionally, I recognize that what I know now, is much better than what I knew even 5 years ago, in fact I would not teach some stuff that I taught 5 years ago! Does that mean that I should not engage today, because I realize that in another 5 years I will also grow in my understanding at this stage?

    Each of the variety of trips should not be compared to other expressions of mission – the objectives and purposes are different, the qualifications are different, the leaders ability is different, the list goes on and on. Each trip often works fairly well for the people that join the experience – not perfectly, often shakily – but often inspirationally (if only to do things better!).

    There needs to be many streams into mission, even ones that I do not particularly enjoy, so long as we are all willing to grow and learn …

    Give me some feedback when you check out your own results …

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