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Comment by Mark and Kathy Schaaf on September 12, 2009 at 7:41am

I'm thinking that people who work in medical missions are either a) perfect people and never make mistakes or b) too busy to blog about their mistakes! Be encouraged folks, and keep on doing good things.

Comment by Mark and Kathy Schaaf on September 5, 2009 at 12:11pm

My top three were:
1) THinking that more resources would change the situation of those in poverty.
2) Taking at surface value the by-in of those who were wanting to be involved in the project or changes that we were trying to make. There are other motives of why people get involved and I was a bit naive about what people wanted out of their participation. Finding the right partners is worth the wait - rushing in to get the "job" done is not worth ending up with the wrong people running the project.
3) Spending money well is sometimes the hardest part of making sustainable changes in a community.

I could go on... I've probably made a majority of the mistakes that can be made. But they have been good learning experiences. I think that compassion ministry is more learned that way than by a book.