Always on a mission trip?
Upon returning home from yet another wonderful mission trip to the Dominican Republic and recent conversations pertaining to mission trips and the like, I have been pondering several things. 1) What really is a mission trip and what do they look like? 2) Do I/we forget that we are always on a "mission trip"? 3) How can we maintain the feelings that we have while being on the mission field in another place, country, or with other people groups and then stay in that mode at home, work, and wherever we are? 4) why is the transition coming back home so hard? I don't know why, but its been so good for me to sort through and examine myself with these questions. To pretty much rethink and retrain my motives and think about why we do things the way we do. The idea of transitioning into coming back home has had me really thinking. Probably because that's exactly what I'm trying to cope with just coming back home only a few days ago. ...