I’m not advocating church mission trip in any way, almost all of them are bullshit vacations for religious folks to feel good about themselves for ‘helping’ poor people for a week and then shipping off. Yet I’m reminded of when I was a kid and the church I grew up in did one to rural Kentucky and my brothers friends were all going so he and my dad went. My dad, who worked a tough job as a lineman and often was sent out to disasters like hurricanes to rebuild the infrastructure most notably Hurrican Andrew, told me when they got back that it was like a third world country. This was in the early 00s
Social contracts seem to be collapsing everywhere nowadays.
Appalachia here. Been on a steady downhill track for decades -longer really.
I’m not advocating church mission trip in any way, almost all of them are bullshit vacations for religious folks to feel good about themselves for ‘helping’ poor people for a week and then shipping off. Yet I’m reminded of when I was a kid and the church I grew up in did one to rural Kentucky and my brothers friends were all going so he and my dad went. My dad, who worked a tough job as a lineman and often was sent out to disasters like hurricanes to rebuild the infrastructure most notably Hurrican Andrew, told me when they got back that it was like a third world country. This was in the early 00s