Mission Trip Thesis

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Is it safe to travel abroad for medical mission trips?
Thesis
While there are risk associated with traveling abroad for medical mission trips, the rewards are worth the dangers.
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Summary
In “Staying Safe on Your Mission Trip”, the author Walter N. Clements provides valuable information on how to stay safe. He has traveled across the world and to many areas that are not well traveled. He gives you the “Rules of the game” that all travelers should know and abide by. Traveling to unfamiliar areas in the world you are taking a risk with your safety. (Clements, 2008) This author gives you the tools to keep yourself safe as possible and how to avoid potential threats.
Evaluation
In this article provided by “Short Term Missions Discover Your Place to Serve”, it contains valuable information about my topic. The author is a former FBI agent and Associate Director of Global Security. He specializes in teaching crisis management, hostage survival, negotiation tactics and counter surveillance detection and evasion.
Explanation of Relevance
As a reader, traveler and missionary worker I found the information quite valuable. It provides the tools to protect yourself in your every day life or in a war torn country on the other side of the world.

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There are security teams, bodyguards and participating all over the world. They covered how to make long-term strategies in unstable parts of the world; in some areas their offices are surrounded by barbed wire. Many short term missionaries “don't always understand what they're walking into” (Kadlecek, 2012, para. 5). In some of these areas there are a lot of unrest and dangerous situations including corrupt government (Kadlecek, 2012, para. 3). But missionary workers want to make a change for the better who they are helping even if it is just one

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