If the church in Uganda, Rwanda, China, the Ukraine and the other "Stans" are so good-and the church in North America is so bad-why do the good churches keep inviting the bad churches to teach them? A cynic might suggest they want relationship with American Christians in order to benefit financially. Most novices in teaching in the developing world tend to lionize the spiritual lives of the impoverished. "Oh, they are so happy in their ragged clothes sitting on dirt floors, they have the joy of the Lord."  They go on to say, " I'm just not that deep spiritually, I could never make it work if I were in their shoes." Could it be that they are not that good and we are not that bad? If we exchanged places with them with no prospect of a switch back, we would be the ones smiling and finding joy in tough circumstances. And in short time they would be corrupted by money and comfort like us, jaded to much of the need around them. They invite us because we have something legitimate to offer them, teaching and educational resources, we go because they open our eyes to truths we cannot see or hear at home. I have been in hundreds of venues around the world and it has taught me to be patient, to adapt to challenging circumstances and to find a way to communicate my thinking to their lives. I find that  teaching in physically difficult places [no hot water, strange food, dangers from weird varmints] to give me an appreciation for what they live with, what they must overcome just to get to the teaching site. It is not unusual for Americans to stay in a better hotel than those attending the conferences, simply because we can afford it. They show us honor even if we don't deserve it, I am humbled and sometimes confused by the entire experience. But they keep inviting and we keep going, because we need each other. Yes we pay for it, and we usually end up helping them financially, but it seems to meet needs we both have.