“It was apparently a religious ministry, and I respect that.”
Should have had a different line of work.
I admire people who are engaged in ministry work, if it’s real ministry work, and not liberal work (in other words, leftist work)
If people can go somewhere to spread the word of God, and bring help in the form of knowledge outside religion that can make people lives better, I’m all for that.
I have been going to a men’s religious group for the past several years, and the pastor who runs it spent 15 years out in the sticks in the Amazon basin in the 80s… I respect the hell out of that man and his family.
We hold our meetings once a month, and the month before last, he came in with his “artifacts“ Which involved a blow gun and things like that. Just to show it wasn’t for show, he blew up some balloons and put them on the far side of this hallway were using and was from the other side of the room and hit it. I was impressed. He also mentioned how he had been given a fine set of dental extraction equipment, even though he had never done anything like that before, and he said he pulls of teeth. People from villages all over came over to get their teeth, pulled, including some people who didn’t need their teeth pulled!
But I do think I agree with you in a sense, that someplace like Haiti is not someplace, you should go if you value your life.
That said, I suspect those people doing that kind of work say those are the kind of places you need to go most of all.