I’m feeling paralyzed.
There was an article the other day by Rachel Pieh Jones, asking ‘where are they? A significant challenge for nonprofits and ministries remains recruiting people who will commit to serve long-term outside the United States.”
I know where they are. They’re listening to everyone else who is telling them not to have a white savior complex and save the world.
We hear about how we’re doing short-term missions wrong, and maybe it isn’t even effective – and we’re ending up with people who have never been overseas in the short run, so why would they want to in the long run?
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I have had writer’s block for a while now, for a variety of reasons. But one of them was this post by Sarah Bessey. Every time someone says or does something that strikes a chord in me, which I’ve normally tended to use as a jumping off point for writing, I now freeze and wonder if I’m misappropriating their story, their sentence, their action. And so I don’t write about it. Misusing story is a big theme in the blogging world right now and it’s scaring me off.
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And then, Fitch the Homeless. I watched the video and shared it. Read more…








