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Missions News: Outreaches  So where are you going on vacation this year?  One group of young people chose a vacation that made a real difference: They partnered with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) to help build a primary school for children in Northern Uganda.  YWAM began building the school in 2007 to help the thousands of people displaced by the Lord's Resistance Army and its 20 year reign of terror in Uganda.  Eleven young people joined them for a short outreach to assist with the building. In addition to stacking bricks, the team played football with the children, visited local homes, and shared the gospel through preaching dramas.  There is a growing trend in missions for individuals to use their vacation time to go on short-term missions trips and assist long term missionaries with their projects.  Although some question the value of short term missions, others argue that such trips can have a real impact, and many of those who go on short trips are later called into long term missions.  Whatever the case may be, there can be little doubt that in this missions trip at least, eleven young people made a real practical difference, not only in the stacks of bricks that did not exist before they came, but in the enthusiasm and excitement they brought to the long term missionaries, and to the Kotomor people of Uganda, whose smiling faces they will not soon forget.   LINKS: READ MORE U.S. Christians Embrace Vacation-Missions Trip Study Questions Whether Short Term Missions Make A Difference  Â ______________________________________________________________________________ The International Faith Telegraph  |