"Black Coffee Reflections": Mission Trips

“Black Coffee Reflections”:  Mission Trips

This blog was actually fueled by a friend and this title “Black Coffee Reflections” that I found on the internet. I wanted to use this title for a long time but waited until the time was just perfect. So why “Black Coffee Reflections”? Well to be completely honest with you, I hate coffee but all of my close friends love it and many times when we are together we are talking about something over coffee.

This reflection is about the existence of mission trips; over the years mission trips have gained great popularity. For those of you that do not know what a mission trip is, it is a group of individuals (usually teenagers and young adults) who take a long trip to help people or the environment. Most of these groups are organized through the church and youth groups. Many mission trips make such an impact that you hear about them in your local paper or new broadcast. By this point, you must be thinking here comes the negativity. . . And yes here it comes.

There are some people who think mission trips are a obscenely, expensive trip to have fun but help people along the way. Where some feel you can do community service in your own city or town; there is no need to fundraise and spend so much money.

My take: The youth ministry today is losing so many young people to drugs, gangs, disbelieve, and the streets so anything you can do to rally students together, crazy about God is fine by me! These experiences are the ones you remember 20 years down the road and why no remember a time when you help somebody. We all waste money on unnecessary things; if you have worked this hard to raise money for your trip, do a good cause, then celebration should be in order. These type things are positive and with a world with so much anger someone has to step up. Youth groups cannot only help someone they can strengthen the community by preaching the gospel and ministering other youth to join a church or a youth group. When you hear the word youth group you don’t think of all the great things that are done but you should.