Retreats

Mission Trips - A Christian Perspective

Submitted by: http://www.hopeventuresinternational.org

All spiritual travel is not equal. Mission trips are taken for the purpose of learning about and engaging with people around the world. Travelers can visit a school for underprivileged children in a slum and come away with a very different image than someone who lives for a short time with a local family from the same school, sharing their home and food, a little bit of language exchange and a lot of heart interchange. Both of these trips are drastically different from a meditative or prayer visit to a retreat center. Prayer walks in foreign lands offer yet a different perspective for the traveler. Read more ...