Mission Trips: Serving God’s Church or White Savior Syndrome?
This presentation will analyze the nature of short-term, U.S.-based mission trips and their ramifications on the missionary and those being ministered to alike. Through a sociological case study, this presentation will address the problematic elements in short-term missions, their effects on how race and diversity is viewed in the church, and potential ways of improving the way the church does short-term missions.
SOC 410, Global Issues: Race in America
Melisa Ortiz Berry
Bushnell History Symposium, P103
10 AM – 1 PM