Short-term missions offer an opportunity to surrender your agenda, your time and the chance to experience life. In John, Christ says “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). But what does that mean? Can people living in poverty experience abundance? And then conversely thinking–if my bank account is full, then why do I feel so empty? Christ living in us gives us the opportunity to live an abundant life and understand the secret of Christ’s words, “For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it” (Matthew 16:25).