This project reports the findings of an ethnographic study of "receivers" of short-term missions trips. Qualitative interviews were conducted with nine pastors and laypeople in Mexico and with nine leaders of Baptist conventions around the world. This data revealed a desire among receivers for short-term missions to increasingly reflect elements including the following: mutuality, communication, local direction of projects, long-term relationships, and humility. Negative experiences with short-term missions included the failure to keep promises, single-trip encounters, lack of preparation, cultural mistakes, imposition of plans, and imposition of Western polity and theology. This data was analyzed through both William Easterly's writings in development economics and Lamin Sanneh's missiology. Easterly's dichotomy between "Planners" and "Searchers" in economic development was applied to the interview data. Points of connection included the need for humility in engagement, a search for homegrown solutions, a focus on outputs desired by receivers, and the implementation of avenues of feedback and accountability. Laurin Sanneh's description of the translatability of the gospel was applied to the interview data. Key elements included relativization of the missionary's culture and destigmatization of the receiving culture. The implications of this study for the practice of short-term missions included the need for better preparation, for richer and multivalent relationships, and for greater degrees and depth of mutuality.