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[quote=Anonymous]I'd support the trip to Detroit more than the one to Guatemala.  I'm conservative protestant too, and have seen many mission trips.  The ones that seem most useful are the ones that send people with actual trades/skills to do storm cleanup here in the US.  Costs to get there tend to be low (buses, usually that the sending church already owns), volunteers sleep in the church basement, local church members might cook for them in the church kitchen OR someone makes a Costco-type run and cooks for the group.

Youth going to teach Bible School at a local church, doing odd jobs for elderly/poor people, doing "heavy work" storm cleanup also seems useful.

The "hey we get to go to Guatemala" and while we're there we'll help some people trips, while usualy paid for by participants and fundraising, seem excessive.  As others have pointed out even just donating the cost of the airfare to a local organization could be more useful.  As my parents once asked - isn't there someone a lot closer you could be helping instead?  It does open participants' eyes to poverty, but there's parts of the US that could do the same.  But a trip to Appalachia (or Detroit) doesn't sound nearly as cool, so recruitment could be tough.[/quote]

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