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Thinking about travel
My big summer trip was great, but it has me thinking about when and where I might go next
On Sunday, July 10, I returned from a two-week mission trip to Uganda with Raise The Roof Academy. I’m more and more of the opinion that this was the best of my 10 foreign mission trips.
As I explained in the post linked to above, some of my teammates from this trip travel to RTRA year after year (at least, when we’re not in the middle of a global pandemic). In the early 2000s, I took a series of annual mission trips, but after a few years I began to feel some donor fatigue from the friends and family members who had faithfully supported me year after year. I decided it would be better if I took a trip every few years instead of every year.
Over the past decade, of course, the schedule has been even more spread out than that. The last of my nine trips with LEAMIS International Ministries, to Sierra Leone in 2016, was in the planning stages for several years, starting in about 2014, but had to be postponed a couple of times, first due to our host pastor’s scheduling issues and then due to the Ebola crisis in West Africa.
And it was in the fall of 2019 that I first signed up for RTRA’s summer 2020 trip — which didn’t take place, due to COVID. It didn’t take place in 2021, either.
