In this episode, Dave asks Patrick to answer 7 questions about short term mission trips.

Here they are:

1. What are the legitimate spiritual and practical dangers of short term mission trips?
2. How can short term mission trips (at least in your context) actually reach the local population for the sake of the gospel?
3. How can short term mission trips help the full time missionaries on the field?
4. How can short term mission trips help the people who take those trips — the short term missionaries themselves?
5. How can short term mission trips help the churches who organize and support them?
6. Perhaps combining all of the above questions — how is God honored by short term mission trips; from a broad perspective, how are they biblical and how are they spiritually beneficial?
7. Finally, if someone has the desire (perhaps, feels a leading from the Spirit) to get involved in mission work to a greater degree — and thinks a short term mission trip might be a good place to start — what advice would you give to them?