@wis75 India received Christianity before my ancestral homeland. These were local Indian churches that were deeply involved in service projects for all people, regardless of religion and caste. But that’s not a debate that’s relevant to the OP’s real dilemma.
If I was inarticulate in post #29, let me state that we were very cognizant of the stain of the “poverty tourism” thing or the “mission junkets” where kids spent a day cleaning a basketball court in Mexico then off to the beaches. Indeed, I concurred with people being wary of them.
These kids worked in extremely impoverished service situations that most adult Americans would have found challenging. I stand by the effort.