They might refuel in Florida and fly to Haiti but other than that yea they aren’t doing mission trips to Africa or other countries in need of Missionaries.
It’s not the distance that’s the issue, it’s the load capacity.
They can get to Africa. It’s only getting back that is a challenge.
they aren’t doing mission trips to Africa or other countries in need of Missionaries.
I had a Nigerian in a seminar on liturgy last semester along with four Canucks (I’m a Yank). Send the plane to Africa so they can fly missionaries here.
There are many parts of North America, including my own diocese, where our native (by which I mean home-born) priests are being augmented by African Missionaries.
The Babylonian Bee, alas, at times does not do satire but merely thinly disguises reality.
https://babylonbee.com/news/missionaries-travel-from-africa-to-reach-the-united-methodist-church