When Helping Hurts By Band-Aid

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In my paper hurting with the best intentions, taking a look at the after effects of helping. The main focus is put on missions and the effectiveness that is found after the missionaries return home. Many times one can go back to the mission filed only to find that those once helped are now hurting more than ever. This is best represented by a Band-Aid. A Band-Aid to stop a wound from bleeding but in the end the skin underneath is still broken and hurt. When the Band-Aid is taken off there is a sting and pain, sometimes the pain leaves but that is no always the case. It is made known to the reader what an effective mission consists of. The main resourced used in this paper is the book, When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert to

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