Lake said he believes it really takes a three to four week trip to have a lasting impact on someone. Most short-term missions trips require participants to raise financial support. School bills have become a large obstacle keeping many young people from taking short-term mission trips. Those debts must be paid off before the person can be approved to serve as a career missionary with most boards. Our ministry provides a short term missions opportunity, called KoreaNET, which we currently run in partnership with Word of Life Korea.
College graduates can go to Korea for a ministry experience, without raising financial support.
We provide an option by which they can raise some support to eliminate their school bills faster. We are working on plans to expand this ministry opportunity into other countries. In closing, I think it is important to note the way another group, far outside our circles, uses short-term missions. Their growth has been achieved primarily with a short-term missions work force. Not only would we see a great harvest of souls, but we would see more people surrendering to serve the Lord Full Time.