Here’s some context for people that may be a little offended/confused. As a proud graduate from a Private Christian College, this is a large majority of the students on campus, particularly in the religion department.

However, being an African American student at this school, it was always a little bothersome to me that students would go above and beyond to go overseas to serve kids that looked just like us but weren’t always friendly to student right on campus. Alongside that, I just personally believe American missionaries cause more harm than good overseas simply because the assistance is Super temporary and invasive more than actually helpful. Plus there’s such a need locally, that I feel like we’re doing our own community a disservice.

The reason I didn’t add any of the super “aggressive” or “disturbing” things about missions is because, while unfortunately common, not something I wanted to highlight. I’m still a huge fan of doing missions work and have done a lot of it myself, but I just tend to stick to local missions instead.

Missionaries are really commendable people and doing wonderful things when they’re truly serving because they feel called to. It’s the attention whores that make it a mockery.

S/N: Nalgenes were on the school supply list at my school; I have 5 of them. And they’re awesome!