134: Are Mission Trips Beneficial? ft. Ellen Courchane

The Catholic Feminist

Claire Swinarski

Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Politics, Jesus, Catholic, Religion, Socialjustice, Christianity, Feminist, Women

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🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Our first guest of season 4? My own sister! Ellie Courchane is a nurse, a fiancee, and a frequent attender of mission trips to developing nations. Ellie and I are chatting about what makes a GOOD mission trip, why so many mission trips are actually harmful, and why we sometimes use humor to view things through a different lens. I love Ellie’s perspective on why mission trips can truly be a good thing when done well and why your impact matters just as much as your intent. We also talk about if it’s better to try and do something even though it may potentially be harmful, or if it’s better to do nothing at all. If you’re considering going on a mission trip this year, make sure to listen in!

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Catholic feminist episode 134.
0:05.0	Today we're talking all about the difference between mission trips and
0:09.5	volunteerism. Today's episode is brought to you by every Sacred Sunday.
0:14.0	Head to every Sacred Sunday.com today to peruse their beautiful products.
0:19.0	Today's episode is also brought to you by Select International Tours. If you are looking to take a group of people
0:25.2	on a life-changing pilgrimage, go to select International Tours.com slash feminists today.
0:39.2	Welcome to the Catholic feminist, a podcast for strong women who want to be informed, inspired, and intentional.
0:40.2	I'm your host, Claire, and I'm so glad you're here. You know that M&M song that's like guess who's back back again. I really wanted to
1:00.9	put that in here but I don't want to pay all the money for the rights or we'd have to have like 8,000 sponsors an episode
1:08.0	so sorry about that but we're back it's four. I am so so so excited to be here especially with this
1:16.4	guest which we will get to in a minute. But first I do have a few house cleaning things. I just want to want to go over. So first of all the
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