Tonight’s Unpacking is about the “$50 ask” and the missions story you’re handed from the stage—and the numbers you’re not. We walk through what a real missions P&L should show, what the IRS actually says about charitable travel deductions, why international work often reduces donor visibility, how incentives quietly shape the kind of “missions” American churches prefer—and the counterintuitive harm: how this posture can quietly devalue African believers by turning their victories into American branding and their churches into perceived dependents. If your church can’t show receipts, you’re not cynical for asking… you’re faithful.
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