{"id":56497,"date":"2016-11-27T23:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_do_no_harm_the_pros_and_cons_of_short-term_missions\/"},"modified":"2016-11-27T23:00:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T23:00:27","slug":"local_paper_do_no_harm_the_pros_and_cons_of_short-term_missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56497","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) Do no harm? The pros and cons of short-term missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a Peace Corps volunteer, Ginny Fonner worked in a rural village in Zambia, a southern African country with a severe shortage of doctors. While there, a short-term mission group visited. Their goal: distribute medicines to fight intestinal worms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great goal. Worms are a big problem,\u201d\u009d she said during a recent global health symposium at the Medical University of South Carolina. \u201cSo they spent day after day going to schools, distributing treatments, feeling really good about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Except for one thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They had no idea that the previous week the local government had done the exact same thing with the exact same children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/do-no-harm-the-pros-and-cons-of-short-term\/article_17f4cf56-a842-11e6-be97-a7c74edac56a.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Peace Corps volunteer, Ginny Fonner worked in a rural village in Zambia, a southern African country with a severe shortage of doctors. While there, a short-term mission group visited. Their goal: distribute medicines to fight intestinal worms. \u201cIt\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56497\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,104,182,108,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-health-medicine","category-missions","category-religion-culture","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}