"We are not called to help people. We are called to follow Jesus, in whose service we learn who we are and how we are to help and be helped." Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Willimon ...

Clark Campell, et al. note in a paper inMental Health Religion and Culture (2009, Vol. 12 (7), pp:627-637) called "Reduction in Burnout May Be a Benefit for Short-Term Medical Mission Volunteers" that burnout scores improved for physicians and nurses after providing medical care on South American short-term medical mission trips. Thirty-six volunteers were scored in the mo...

This is an exerpt from the book Maximum Impact Short-Term Mission by Roger Peterson, Gordon Aeschliman, and R. Wayne Sneed. Arguing from Matthew 5, they make the point that any missions work that seeks to conform to God's plan for missoins should (must) involve average believers...