Enjoying Life in the Mission Field
Happenings Around the Mission Compound
Page 5

Here's the kitchen and dining hut, or churuata as it is called here in Venezuela.

Everyone pitches in preparing meals and cleaning up afterwards.  Union College IRR student Michael Hoppe chops up the veggies.

Corrie enjoys eating passion fruit. For those of you who haven't eaten it, you spoon out this sweet, slimy, frog-egg-like stuff with crunchy seeds and munch away!

The Colegio Gran Sabana Farm Manager takes the IRR staff kids for a ride on the school tractor. 

Six-year-old Madeline even gets to steer!

Corrie and the Farm Manager's
daughters ride in the tractor's bucket.

Things got a little scary when
someone pulled a lever and
raised them high into the air!

Gathering eggs at the chicken farm.

Adrianna caught one of the hens.

Volunteers Bucklee & Shannon Eller had really been hoping they could adopt cute little baby José, who'd been abandoned by his mentally-ill mother.  But the grandparents decided to keep him.

They've really enjoyed being
"Mommie & Daddy" to
José for a few months!

Michael Hoppe was the only official IRR student
this time. 

What's he looking at anyway?

And what's Dr. Mike Duehrssen looking at?

A strange-looking creature at the outdoor sinks.

Could it be . . . is it really . . . his wife?

Yep, that's Susan, thoroughly shampooing
her hair with Corrie's help.

Like it?  Maybe it will become the next fad!

Whether enjoying fun times together, learning rescue & relief techniques or treating patients in remote villages, our missionaries enjoy adventure and the fulfillment of meeting the needs of
people in every way they can.

Click here to read Mike's account
from visiting villages a year ago.

The Adventist Medical Aviation program (AMA)has made a great impact in dozens of otherwise inaccessible villages.

Saving lives and healing sickness at no cost or obligation to them speak volumes about the Jesus we claim to serve.

Once the people witness the demonstration of our love, they became willing to listen to the words of salvation our workers have to share.  Now they enjoy a better way of life in the present, and have hope of a future with Jesus that's out of this world!

Compared to most villages, there is a noticeable difference in the places helped by AMA volunteers.  The people are happier and healthier.  You can see a sparkle in their eyes and hope giving them a reason to live.  Their villages are neat and clean.

Is God calling YOU to serve?  Experienced bush pilots, medical personnel, builders and other volunteers are needed in Venezuela and other countries in South America.

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