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Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Medical Missions?
Ten questions, every answer a real number from Don Nichols' mission budget and trip record. Score yourself, share your result, and get the stories behind the answers.
Every answer in this quiz is a fact Don Nichols has published on this site: what a Bible costs, what a trunk weighs, where the first trip went, what a patient pays. Each answer tells you where it came from, so you leave knowing more than you came with. Score it, share it, then go find the ones you missed.
What does one Bible cost on Don's Belize budget?
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Every question above is a thing somebody can buy. Pick one and it gets carried to Belize and handed to a person, free.
Questions people ask
- Are the quiz answers real?
- Yes. Every answer is a fact Don Nichols has published on this site — his budget, his trip timeline, his description of the trunks and kits — and each answer shows its source.
- Can I use this quiz at church?
- Yes. Put it on a screen for a missions Sunday or send the link to a small group; it works on any phone and nothing is stored.
- Will there be more quizzes?
- Leave your name and email at the end of the quiz and you will get the next one, along with Don's stories from the field.
Pass the numbers on.
Most people have never seen what a mission trip actually costs. One share puts this in front of somebody who will give because they finally can see it.
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OpenWhat $25 Buys on a Medical Mission Trip (Build the Trunk Yourself)
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Open2013 to 2026: Thirteen Years of Mission Trips, in Charts
13 mission trips across 5 countries since 2013, the three years they could not go, and 509 photographs — Don Nichols' own timeline, charted.
OpenGuides, tools, and the FAQ live on the Resources page. Every fact about the mission on them comes from what Don has published here.