​Recommended reading

Missioners are required to read one of the following books before embarking on their mission trip:

• When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor... and Yourself by Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett
• Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It) by Robert D. Lupton

Suggested reading:

• Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships by Sherwood G. Lingenfelter
• Eternity in Their Hearts by Don Richardson
• The New Global Mission: The Gospel from Everywhere to Everyone by Samuel Escobar
• Mission Trips That Matter by Don C. Richter

On Sierra Leone:

• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
• Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
• Sierra Leone Bradt Travel Guide
• Ancestor Stones by Aminata Forna
• The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara and Susan McClelland
• Sierra Leone (Cultures of the World) by Suzanne LeVert

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