{"id":1619,"date":"2013-09-25T17:55:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T21:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missiondiscovery.org\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2021-09-23T15:04:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T19:04:29","slug":"vision-birthed-bad-my-first-mission-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missiondiscovery.org\/news\/vision-birthed-bad-my-first-mission-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"A VISION BIRTHED IN &#8220;BAD&#8221;-MY FIRST MISSION TRIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll never do another mission trip.&#8221; Those were my words in 1976 after returning from my first mission trip. My new wife and I had journeyed to Guatemala with 40 other individuals. It was a mix of college age and mid twenty-ish people who had come from all over the U.S. and Canada to serve there following a devastating earthquake that level homes, schools, businesses and churches. Our work was clear: We would clear rubble, rebuild homes and lead children&#8217;s outreaches.<\/p>\n<p>We lived in a tent community in the town of Chimaltenango, Guatemala not far from the capitol city. We partnered with CEPA, a group of pastors that formed after the earthquake to serve the needs of schools, resident, and churches or orphanages hit hard by the quake.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say that the romantic first weeks of the trip had me thinking that I could do this for life! By week 4 of the 8 week journey I had a severe case of dysentery. So sick I went to the only available hospital to get replenished with fluids. It happened to be a maternity hospital. Funny that this place would actually become the birthplace of ideas for what I would start 15 years later called Mission Discovery (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.missiondiscovery.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.missiondiscovery.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>We get lots of calls from team leaders or individuals looking for a mission experience different from their last. Some, not all, have had a previous experience with another agency that seemed much like my first experience.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that God used that trip to help form Mission Discovery Short Term Mission makes me wonder if there really are any &#8220;bad&#8221; mission trips. He is in that line of work. What the enemy means for harm God can use for good.<\/p>\n<p>Now some 37 years later I help lead hundreds of individuals and teams on trips. There are three things I keep in mind as I lead these incredible servants of God with the memories still fresh of my first mission trip:<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t rescue them from a struggle that will prove good for them later.<\/p>\n<p>Do ask them to be students, or learners on the trip. God is always talking!<\/p>\n<p>Ask them to look for God around every corner, every day. (That doesn&#8217;t stop when they return home) God is never not at work!<\/p>\n<p>[Maury Buchanan is President of Mission Discovery Short Term Missions based in Gallatin, TN. visit missiondiscovery.org for mission trip info. Mission Discovery works near the town of Chimaltenango today as a result of that first trip that Maury and Ann Buchanan took in 1976.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.missiondiscovery.org\/trips\/guatemala-high-school-college-age-spring-break-mission-trips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the trip details<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll never do another mission trip.&#8221; Those were my words in 1976 after returning from my first mission trip. My new wife and I had journeyed to Guatemala with 40 other individuals. 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