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• W209869392 abstract "Abstract: The Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition has long regarded service to others as a natural extension of Christian faith. This commitment has taken many forms, including the development of several programs that provide short-term service opportunities for young people. In recent years, however, critics have expressed strong reservations about the integrity and efficacy of short-term service work. This article explores these concerns by tracing the early history of three Mennonite-affiliated service organizations--SWAP, DOOR, and Group Venture. Because all of these programs were created primarily for educational purposes, were responding to clearly articulated needs in local communities, and did not divert resources from longer-term initiatives, the essay concludes that they have been largely successful in achieving their goals without doing harm to host communities. ********** Short-term mission is an enterprise in which the rich, the white, the young and old can come, drain local resources and build a church in the process, never taking the time to teach a craft or empower young Mexican-Americans to pursue their education. ... The demonic cycle of white dominance continues to perpetuate itself as short-term mission develops white leaders and instills in white youth and adults the myth of white superiority. ... If the Mennonite church wants to continue to believe the lie that it is doing good work, then the Mennonite church is only interested in continuing the development of gringo society. (1) These sharp words, published in the July 3, 2001, issue of The Mennonite, expressed the frustrations of several leaders of the Unidad Cristiana de Iglesias Menonitas, a largely Hispanic district of the South Texas Mennonite churches. In an open letter entitled Stories of Protest about Short-Term Mission, the local church leaders called on the Mennonite Church to reexamine the debilitated state of the church's missional focus, and they defended their concerns with several troubling stories about their experience with Mennonite short-term mission workers who came to South Texas. (2) In a later interview, Felipe Hinojosa, one of the authors of the letter, highlighted additional frustrations that the local South Texas community faced with short-term mission programs. After graduating from college in 1999, Hinojosa had helped to host volunteer groups, and he frequently felt little respect from incoming groups. Moreover, these local hosts diverted their energy to meet the needs of incoming groups--as a result of working with volunteer groups Hinojosa and others often fell behind in their own work and even spent money out of their own pocket. For Hinojosa, the final insult was a Mennonite group that came intent on helping a local pastor repair his roof. The pastor, who was leaving on a trip, asked that they not work on his house while he was gone. Nevertheless, the group began renovating his house after he had left. The project was more complicated than they had thought, and they left well before they had finished the project. To make matters worse, they did not send any money to finish the job. (3) In Hinojosa's perspective, the short-term mission project had turned his South Texas community into the whore of the Mennonite Church. (4) Since the mid-twentieth century Mennonite youth and school groups have participated in numerous short-term service programs. Many of these were initially based on locally organized, ad hoc initiatives and personal contacts with local communities and service organizations. In the early 1980s, however, Mennonite service agencies recognized the need for a more systematic approach toward short-term service programs, and by the mid-1980s three programs emerged that provided weeklong summer service opportunities to Christian high school students. In 1985 Mennonite Central Committee--the joint relief and service agency associated with most North American Mennonite churches--created Sharing with Appalachian People (SWAP) in Southeastern Kentucky and set up Denver Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection (DOOR) in Colorado the following year. …" @default.
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