Honest Mission Trip Leader
“I swear if one more person loses their passport!” Comedian John Crist is the honest mission trip leader.
John Crist is a standup comedian. For more info, bio and live tour dates visit http://www.johncristcomedy.com
“I swear if one more person loses their passport!” Comedian John Crist is the honest mission trip leader.
John Crist is a standup comedian. For more info, bio and live tour dates visit http://www.johncristcomedy.com
You’re so honest. My church announced this Sunday that there’s a group going to Germany to spread the gospel. Wow, really. Enough is enough
Lord’s willing, I’m planning on going on a Missions trip with my church next year, I just hope I don’t have those thoughts or somebody in my group…LOL!!
Cool story about the ugly Mission trip shirts: a few years ago my youth group went on a mission trip (I don’t remember where bc I wasn’t at this church at the time) and the flight was delayed. They started singing Christian songs and a worker there saw that the shirts said they were a mission team. She set them up with a new flight and then later on the flight they were able to talk to a lot of people about God bc of the shirts.
So true.
Nailed it, How sad
I had a friend who went on a missionary trip to Ghana. It turns out that taking shoes to these people is not necessarily helpful because they don’t use them
Mission my ass. Why do they always go to exotic Spanish speaking countries?
painting a church twice in a week for photos
Remember “Ugly American”? Back in the day I witnessed many of them and only 1% of them were drunk!
The people who are THAT close to god have a lot of problems let me tell ya
I wonder if this is ever going to come back? This summer…. aargh.. was on a plane a few summers ago and the group nearby.. shirts printed.. "food for the poor" and "comida para la pobre" I was seriously so close to asking them… "what if the poor don’t think they are poor?" they can be so darn insulting in my opinion.. another group… "we fed the poor, but first they had to come to a service… it was so beautiful" "I asked if jesus would make them watch him talk before he fed the hungry?" they didn’t have an answer…
My former church refused to send me anywhere longer than 2 weeks, and then outright refused any support when I said that I wouldn’t be taking photos, shooting video, nor doing a "missionary report" for the church when I got back. I wanted to stay as long as the Canadian government and Zambian government would allow, but in the end, when the church nowadays won’t even do outreaches with the homeless, drug addicts and single mothers in the downtown…going overseas is all for show.
those are hypocrite leaders yea
This is HILARIOUS!!!!!
I used to go on mission trips to Belize. I think we did some good, but not much. We did a VBS for the kids one year, then the next year we taught business skills to women, and again on the 3rd trip. Really, we were just helpful tourists basically. We always got to go back to our hotel at the end of the day. The part about pictures was what bothered me the most. No consent is ever asked for.
I’m a former Christian, current Neopagan, + you, sir, are hilarious.
I am a part of an international youth missionary group who goes to a differnt country for a month every year (before covid) some of them were not english countries but my group is not like this lol. I appreciate the humour thhough lool. We are not from America though we are mainly from the Caribbean though we have a few missionaries from Arica but none of them were born there though they were born in Guyana and Venezuela loool. This thing is hilarious. We typically build houses for people, build churches, other community jobs in the day and at night we put on the church services. Btw everything is done by the youth ages 12 to 25 the adults are just there to supervise.
this guy tells it like it is. this is not comedy, this is true. hypocritical churches that do things just to be seen. at least this guy is not afraid to say it for what it really is. many times when i have talked to christians(myself being a christian and attending the church) about obvious faults within the church they treat you like how dare you say anything bad about the church. you know real humble attitude. christians and churches i say, stop trying to hide these things or maybe even worse pretend like they dont exist. just be honest and own up to these failures. the world sees through it all anyway
Still funny!
Let’s be brutal honest its just another reason to take a vacation from a different country.
Think Globally, Act Locally…
Family vacation that’s paid for by your congregation’s money, family and friends. So sad, yet 100% true for our American churches. Give money to your local shelter and go evengalize your neighbors and co-workers. Not as exciting as overseas travel but 1000% more effective for God’s kingdom.
Yeah, i dont want to sound cynical, but ive privately wondered if these "Teen mission trips" are really just exotic island getaways.
You take a group of kids who cant speak the language and have no valuable construction skills to build something alongside the locals. And i can tell you from experience that it will take me longer to accomplish a task if i have to constantly refocus and train some teen to help me. And since they are only helping for 1 or 2 days at most, there is no lomg term payoff in productivity.
You on the janky terminal E
sucks that you had that experience. I am glad I found BLI because it was non stop serving. If I would’ve experienced it like the way you expressed it I would’ve lost faith in missions as a whole and see life as a lie. smh dang. We don’t even show the church the pictures because we believe what the word says to not be a hypocrite. Hopefully people find humble leaders who truly is after Gods heart.
Truth!!
Yeah..I always thought that would be a paid vacation for the leader.
Our church use to send out a group of youth on a mission trip to Mexico every year. One year I thought I might help soport their trip, but the youth wasn’t willing to babysit or rake my yard or anything, they just wanted the finances. So I decided against aiding them in that way. Later I had an opportunity to speak with one of the missionaries in Mexico, and I was shocked to learn how disruptive our church youth had been. I have always loved the idea of supporting missionaries, but as far as sending out youth without their parents, I don’t know if I ever want to support them again.
Thank you. Finally somebody speaks the truth about how bogus mission trips really are
Nailed it!
You mean mission trips are devoid of altruism?…color me shocked!!
This is so strange to me. Growing up in my church, a missionary was someone who felt the divine call from the Lord. No one chose things like this, evangelist, preacher…
And it wasn’t a weekend trip. You packed up your entire family and moved there for life. It was a huge deal.
Watching his videos makes me realize just how different contemporary churches are from the old fashioned hellfire and brimstone churches.
This was really funny but also kind of sad to see that this behavior is sooo common for so many churches. This is what happens when No one, not even that pastors (that’s the saddest part) understand what mission trips are for
THISSSSSSSS.
The overall goal for missionary trips to third world countries is to molest little children. This way these demon pastors can do there evil and then leave the country free of prosecution.
LoL that was great