Jon Coughlin of the City of Joy Rwanda: Do Short Term Mission Trips Help or Hurt?

Disaster tourism.  Creating dependency.  Robbing dignity.  Exacerbating racial divides.  The detractor's list of criticisms for short term missions trips is long.  Is there any virtue to be found in short term missions trips?

As today's podcast hits, there is a team of teachers and students from Northwest Christian that is on the ground at the City of Joy in Rwanda.  And, serving alongside them is Jon Coughlin, the director of City of Joy.  In advance of that trip, we recorded this episode and posed some difficult questions to Jon about whether or not places like Rwanda are more helped or hurt by visiting (in the words of the detractors) "white saviors".

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"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created through Frameworks, a Biblical worldview initiative of Northwest Christian School.

For more information on Frameworks, please visit:  https://frameworks.ncsaz.org/

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To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email gbrown@ncsaz.org or you can reach him by cell phone:  (623)225-5573.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created through Frameworks, a Biblical worldview initiative of Northwest Christian School.

For more information on Frameworks, please visit: https://frameworks.ncsaz.org/

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit: https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email gbrown@ncsaz.org or you can reach him by cell phone: (623)225-5573.