How can Casting Crowns be a platform for challenging youth about missions?
JUAN: Our music in general challenges people in their relationship with Jesus to be a growing one. If you look at ‘We Are The Body’ – the surface of the lyrics talk about reaching out to people who are hurting, the hands of Christ are hands that heal”. Do you think that when the majority of young people decide to go abroad to the mission field, they are going for the right reasons rather than some kind of adventure or vacation? CHRIS: “On my first mission trip I didn’t know what to expect. We went to Kenya last year and took about a dozen students from our church. Before that, we went to a town in South Africa and because it’s a third world country we expected to see poverty to a small degree. It was worse than I thought. At that time, I wasn’t even thinking about vacation. When we first left the States and we all talked about going on this really cool ‘Jeep Safari’ that was really exciting about that part of the trip but when we were in this little town and seeing the people there – t
