Vulnerable Mission as an Alternative to Failing Aid Paradigms: Facing Reality on Reaching Africa

Abstract

This short essay provides a brief review of the reasons for advocating the vulnerability of development workers and missionaries from the West in their interaction(s) with the ‘poor’ world, particularly Africa. The blurring of the distinction between development workers and missionaries is intentional, as the ‘development’ project is assumed to be motivated by Christian values, and the true Christian missionary to be concerned for the holistic well being of those s/he is reaching.