Mission Project
Imagine that you are planning to conduct a mission trip in 5 years. You should select a specific mission for this project to provide some kind of humanitarian aid to the target population. Many people choose to include evangelism as a part of their mission, though the main goal must be humanitarian. The mission goal may include providing education, medical assistance, clean water, food, or aid.
To keep your mission reasonable, in scale and goal, design your mission to include yourself and 5 – 10 other participants and to be 2 – 4 weeks in duration. Because the mission group is small and the duration is not long, consider goals that can reasonably be accomplished within the allotted time. Choose a small target population for your mission. For example, if you want to bring medicine to two small villages in Peru, the villagers are your target population. It is not reasonable to try to bring medicine to the entire population of Peru with a small group of missionaries on a month long trip.
Choose three countries from the Country Data Spreadsheet provided in the Course Materials that you would consider going to for your mission trip. Research each country using The World Factbook found on the Central Intelligence Agency website at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/, other resources such as the U.S. Department of State website at http://travel.state.gov/content/travel/english.html, and the GCU Library. Consider economic reasons for choosing these countries, and safety concerns that may be relevant to these countries and your mission goals. Remember that you would not go alone on this trip and you are responsible for the safety of the other participants, in addition to your own.
Write a 400–600 word narrative describing your mission and why the three chosen countries are appropriate for your mission. Specifically, address the following in your assignment:
1) What is the purpose of your mission trip? In general, mission trips fall into three categories – providing aid in the form of supplies, providing education, and providing services such as medical clinics and building houses.
2) What is the target population? How does it compare with the entire population and what will it look like in 5 years? This will require use of the population information available from The World Factbook in conjunction with the information in Chapter 8 and Chapter 9 of the text.
You are required to discuss your target population and its projected size in 5 years. This material is covered on pp. 480 – 483. Assume that the annual growth rate of the target population is the same as that of the country’s total population growth rate and that it will remain consistent at the most recent rate available. Show your work for all calculations using the Equation Editor in Microsoft Word.
Example: Suppose you have $39,815.00 invested at 8% APR over 5 years and the interest is compounded once per year. The formula for the final value of your investment from p. 216 of your textbook gives
P(T)=39815⋅(1+0.08)^5=58,501.30
This is how your math should be formatted.
While this is a fun project, the goal is to assess the mathematics you are learning, so you must include your calculations, make sure they are correct and clearly written.
3) What are the economic reasons for choosing these countries? Use economic information you find in The World Factbook and other resources.
4) Why are the countries you chose are good candidates for a mission trip?
5) What are possible safety concerns that might arise in conjunction with your trip? Conduct additional research as necessary to address this concern. The U.S. State Department website is one source of information.
6) Include a paragraph in which you decide which one of the three countries to choose to complete the mission. Apply logical reasoning to make your choice. The logic you use in making these decisions must be clearly explained. Explain why that country is a more appropriate candidate than the other two countries.
Include three or more scholarly resources, and The World Fact book.
Must be APA format
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
http://travel.state.gov//content/travel/en.html
Country Airports Heliports Rail Roads Waterways
Albania * 4 1 339 km 18,000 km 41 km
Algeria * 157 3 3973 km 113,655 km none
Argentina * 1138 2 36,966 km 231,374 km 11,000 km
Australia * 480 1 38,445 km 823,217 km 2000 km
Belarus * 65 1 5537 km 86,392 km 2500 km
Bosnia & Herzegovina * 24 6 601 km 22,926 km limited
Brazil * 4093 13 28,538 km 1,580,964 km 50,000 km
China * 507 47 86,000 km 4,106,387 km 110,000 km
Georgia * 22 2 1612 km 19,109 km
Guatemala * 291 1 332 km 11,501 km 990 km
Indonesia # 673 76 5042 km 496,607 km 21,579 km
Iran # 319 26 8442 km 198,866 km 850 km
Madagascar * 83 854 km 34,476 km 600 km
Mexico # 1714 1 17,166 km 377,660 km 2900 km
Micronesia # 6 240 km
Mongolia # 44 1 1908 km 49,249 km 500 km
Morocco # 55 1 2067 km 58,395 km none
Niger # 30 1 18,949 km 300 km
Peru # 191 5 1,907 km 140,672 km 8,808 km
Philippines # 247 2 995 km 213,151 km 3219 km
Samoa * 4 2337 km
Sierra Leone * 8 2 11,300 km 800 km
Suriname * 55 4304 km 1200 km
Tonga * 6 680 km
Yemen * 57 71,300 km
Note: The kilometers(km) listed for rails, roads, and waterways listed represents the total lengths of railroads, roads, and waterways for each country.
* as of January 17, 2014
# as of January 22, 2014
All information from CIA World Factbook
CIA. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/