There are plenty of people who need salvation right down the American street from these rich evangelists.
They don't want to "save" such local people because they can't use a yacht cruise as an excuse.
As P.J. O'Rourke says, "Everyone wants to save the world but nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes."
Wow, kind of judgmental aren't we? Unless someone knows these people well, such comments are really speculative. Besides; how do you know that they are not also working with their neighbors.
Matthew 28:19-20 references making disciples in the whole world, not just locally. If God called them to do this, who are we to say they shouldn't have gone?
Matthew 28:19-20 (New International Version, ©2010)
19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
From a strictly American point of view; we shouldn't have to be afraid to travel on the open ocean anyway.
As P.J. O’Rourke says, “Everyone wants to save the world but nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”
Some dishes.
I can agree with that... Help and Salvation is needed just down the street... I know deserving families within a few miles of me that could have better benefited from the huge amounts of money tossed away by the well intended yacht people...