The good news is that our study showed that students who have taken part in short-term mission trips are less materialistic, appreciate other cultures more and better understand missions as a lifestyle.
Martiniuk et al. sought "to better understand missions and their potential impact on health systems" in LMICs [ 3].
The aim of this study was to review medical mission publications over 25 years to better understand missions and their potential impact on health systems in LMICs.
Projects should not only pay more attention to risk assessment, it said, but also be better designed to provide engineering data to understand mission failures so subsequent missions do not repeat them.
"I'm concerned, like you," General Myers said, "that whatever we do, that we have a very clear mission, we understand the mission we're asked to do; that we have an idea of when the mission is going to be over -- in other words, when can we come out of the mission?
Ron Paul understood his mission as educational, not just political.
"He has never wavered, never not understood his mission".
But in the words of that other, and more easily understood, Mazda mission statement, "Zoom zoom".
Ward quickly understood his mission: to take a sacred cause and turn it into a building project.
"A company that concentrated a great deal on industrial products in its first century might not have understood the mission of such a person," he said.
"I think that we changed hands so many times that the owners never understood the mission of Vibe," Mr. Kenner said.
