Witnessing life in a foreign culture - and more
dramatically, encountering conditions of poverty and lack of health care - often
are life-changing experiences with long-lasting effects. This booklet is a
resource for persons who express interest in participating in a mission trip as
well as those who are selected as volunteers for mission trips to low- and
middle-income countries to help reflection on the overall experience. Designed
for individual or group use, its contents lead users through discerning
participation, preparation for a trip, arrival, the days of the experience,
leaving, re-entering normal life and remembering and remaining rooted in the
experience. Each of its six sections includes questions for reflection,
spiritual exercises, sources for additional information and inspirational quotes
and poems. It also includes plenty of journaling pages. It is a perfect
companion piece to CHA’s Guiding Principles for Conducting International
Health Activities. Please order copies for all those who participate in or
help plan international health activities.