Mission Motives Report

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In 2016, a professor of ethnomusicology from the University of Colorado, Dr. Benjamin Teitelbaum, sought to discover what motives lie behind Christians who make a decision to serve in foreign lands as missionaries.   At the outset of the project, he theorized that many go overseas as a means to escape the decadent North American culture.  He asked Missio Nexus to collaborate with him to survey the North American mission community to test his thesis.  This report is the result of those findings.

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