Just days after writing about some of the problems with short-term mission, Mark uploads a post about his short visit with a Wycliffe Engage team to Burkina Faso.

To be fair, Wycliffe UK don’t take teams to communities promising to build churches, minister to the locals, run clubs. Some elements of that may be in there somewhere, but Engage teams go to find out what it’s like to be working in one of these communities full-time.

As Mark says

In July we spent 4 weeks in Burkina Faso leading a Wycliffe UK Engage short-term trip to visit Bible translation projects in the country. For the team it was a chance to see what God is doing overseas, and to encourage and pray for people involved in translating the Bible into their own language.

Some of the most important parts of what Engage teams accomplish is what takes place when they get back to the UK,

As we met with people we promised to share our time in Burkina with our friends and churches back home, so that you can pray for them. So we would ask that you pray for the Dagara, Djan and San translators – that they would have wisdom in their work and that they wouldn’t become discouraged. Pray for protection for them and their families too, and for the churches in these areas in general – that they would be strong in their faith, and that people would be freed from fear.

Read the full story of Mark’s time with an Engage team in Burkina Faso here.