Reply #45: Not an attack,

[darkstar3]

but just recently the concept of "church charity" has gotten my goat, and I just want to say that 'mission trips' are not charity. I'm glad that your church is involved in soup kitchens and other charity work, but 'mission trips' are evangelism, and not charity, because while charitable works MAY be performed on that trip, the main purpose of a mission trip is to bring 'the Word.'

At least, that's what it meant in the church from my childhood.