Have you ever gone on one of these trips? Probably not. Which means you have no idea what it's like. So you don't know what you're even talking about. You're making judgements based on what you saw from pictures which most the time are taken the last day when they're saying goodbyes to the people they helped and don't include a lot of the work they actually did.

Our church recently had two trips to Honduras and Guatemala (which I have never been able to go on) and on each trip half the group played with kids and did VBS type stuff (which I assume you're putting in the patty cake with orphans category) and the other half made mortar, put up bricks, built a set of stairs to the second floor of the orphanage, did some roofing and some other things that have slipped my mind at the moment. Yet the things I saw about the trip on Facebook were pictures of the people they worked with and of them "playing patty cake with orphans". So maybe you should actually find out about what they did on the trip rather than make assumptions based on what you see on Facebook.

This post was edited on 7/28/14 at 12:41 am