Work teams are the darlings of missions.
I m defining a work team as a church group that goes overseas for one week to three months. Because in almost every other program we have to go out and beat the bushes for people and support. But with work teams churches knock on our doors, insisting we let them in on this. Last year, our mission had 12 requests from Canadian churches alone, and we are quite a small mission. This was after we had clamped a moratorium on work teams, to allow us to study them before we got swamped.