George Bush responded - dispatching some 30,000 U.S. troops on a short-term mission to reopen the supply routes.

In 1970, there were very few youth groups doing short-term missions in the United States.

Recently, experts have argued that short-term missions tend to actually cause more harm than good.

Relying on a permanent base, mostly from the marine troops but counting all military arms and services, the regiment receives 70% of personal short-term mission.

More recently the number of volunteer missionaries has exploded, with some 7,000 college and high school students signing up for short-term evangelical missions overseas.

In his dentistry career, he also went on many short-term Christian missions trips to Third World countries.

As we learn more about long-duration space flight, we see much more loss of muscle than we saw on the short-term missions.

InterVarsity students regularly participate in both long- and short-term missions projects.

At the same time, there is growing debate within the evangelical community about the pitfalls of short-term missions and how to avoid them.

After June 1999, he carried out short-term missions in the Balkans and Central European Countries.