Short-term missions are complicated and often done poorly. But with wisdom and transparency, a medical missionary explains, they can be hugely helpful. As a missionary, I am often asked about ...

Short-term missions trips, generally trips of 10 days to two weeks, are surging in popularity. According to Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow some 1.6 million U.S. Christians, many of them young ...

As tourists head to airports this summer, American travelers are likely to see groups of young people in matching T-shirts awaiting flights to Latin America or further afield. Their T-shirts sport ...

As tourists head to airports this summer, American travelers are likely to see groups of young people in matching T-shirts awaiting flights to Latin America or further afield. Their T-shirts sport ...

After years of debate, the line is blurrier than ever. In the early years after its founding in 2004, Hands and Feet Project was climbing a steep learning curve as it sought to help vulnerable ...

They are serving as missionaries in nine countries on one of 16 teams. Short-term mission trips have grown in the past few decades, and scholars like Baylor professor Dennis Horton are examining if ...

Grace Tezzo, 16, jostled with logarithms on her final test before school let out this week. Now she has another equation to figure out. The Fort Bend Austin High School student must raise $1,550 to go ...

It’s never too late to get involved with a volunteer mission trip. Just ask the 11 residents of Garden Spot Village, plus a friend — ages 75 to 93 — who traveled to New York School of Urban Ministry ...

A recent exhibit at the Surfing Heritage and Cultural Center got me thinking that travel is, perhaps, the most central ...