Short-term mission has been done badly so often in ways that have been more harmful than helpful to those visited by an outside Christian group. As a new pastor, “inheriting” this trip in my first year at the church, I was full of hope that Porch would be a mission partner we would be proud to partner with, and my hope was beyond met.

Porch de Salomon embodies relationality and sustainability in your mission work; this enables all who partner with you to feel and see the Gospel justice and love of Christ in true, non-superficial, meaningful ways.

Our youth were challenged by the justice and relationship-oriented teaching of Porch and encouraged and loved so well by all of the staff to form an experience that they are hungering to have again.

Rachel VanKirk Mathews, Associate Pastor Maxwell Street Presbyterian Church, Lexington, Kentucky Presbyterian Church, Lexington, KY