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It has been one year since Bob & Neiba Norton and 5 others went missing in the jungles of Venezuela. Not a day goes by that I don't think about and miss my good friend Bob.
To everyone who has supported the search effort with their resources, time, talents and prayer I thank you from [...]

Dear friends and family,
We're wrapping up a most wonderful time of busyness and fun! Besides a couple trips to Balabac for medical evacuations and a medical mission to Abo Abo, most of our time has been spent working on the houses. With lots of help from friends and God we were able to get both [...]

Click here to read a very touching Adventist World story by Barbara Norton Kay, sister of our missing AMA pilot and his wife.

Search Update:
A few weeks ago, Celso attempted to take a team back into the jungle to continue the physical search for Bob, Neiba and the others. On the day that he was to leave he became ill and was unable to travel. His next attempt to return with a team will be after [...]

Holiday greetings to you from the growing team of administrative volunteers at our new Gospel Ministries International (GMI) headquarters. As we follow God’s leading in our work, the miracles at home and around the world continue to astound us. This has been a very interesting year – a combination of serious challenges and tremendous blessings.
For [...]

We just got back from an inspiring trip to the PFM  Tagbanua 1 project. They were finishing up some evangelistic meetings and we went to support. This is one of the places we took our last medical group.  It is helpful here to bring a medical team in before evangelistic meetings so they can invite [...]

DEAF MINISTRY – 2008/2009
Caracas, Venezuela


Part of the Deaf Group










Members of the Parai­so SDA Church, after a Concert in one of the churches in Venezuela.
Their desire is: that the seeds planted may bare its fruits in the new souls.














This is the group that conforms the DEAF MINISTRY (supported also by the: [...]

My name is Julie Rose, and I’m contacting you on behalf of my parents, Steve and Carol Rose. They are volunteer missionaries serving in Cameroon, Africa. They are operating an elementary school- Lassin Adventist School. (lassin.blogspot.com) They heard of the opportunity from Gary Roberts, while my dad spent 3 months with Gary [...]

This was truly amazing! Here he was, a short, muscular, healthy appearing Palawano man, lying on the wooden table in front of me, his face showing not even a trace of concern or apprehension and his friendly, intelligent eyes reflecting complete childlike trust, even though I had just slithered into [...]

Quick Update on the search effort.
Celso is well again from his recent bout with malaria and is ready to return to the jungle to search. We are wanting him to return to the area called Infierno to see if he can get to the two grass landing strips there. We do not believe [...]

Click here for a YouTube video of the GFN Radio Station project.

Compiled by Barbara Kay
Dear AMA Family,
A number of you shared thoughts and memories of Bob and Neiba with me after they went missing. While the search has revealed nothing our hearts will not allow us to forget the times spent with them. In this letter I am including some of these communications so you can [...]

Click on this link to view the news piece that Kristen Johnson did about the search for Bob Norton and the others. This aired on local CBS Ch12, Chattanooga, TN.
Bob Edwards

October 15, 2009
Dear GMI prayer partners and supporters,
Due to the initiative of our Spanish members, a worldwide day of fasting and prayer is being held on Sabbath October 17 in favor of GMI and its twelve television and three radio networks on six satellites covering every continent in ten languages and in the homes of [...]

Update by Bob Edwards:
Since I returned from Venezuela on September 13 where we searched more of Zone D, Celso and several others have returned to the search effort in the Infierno Zone. This area was identified by the Brazilian eyewitness and 3 others as a area where they saw a plane fly over the morning [...]

Dwayne:
The hanger construction has been going well.  We poured the second apartment roof last night.  I learned Filipinos can work twice as fast at night than they can in the day. We got the second roof poured in 6 hours instead of 11 like the first one.  Andrey has been welding hangar trusses together. We [...]

Dear AMA family,
Just a note to inform you that Celso, accompanied by a few other men, made a trip and searched for several days in an area between Karum and Santa Elena. With the added witnesses' information of a plane being seen which seemed to be having difficulties that Monday morning long ago this is [...]

Dear Uncle David,
Hi. My name is Youngmin Martin Kim from Paderborn church last weekend. We talked shortly and I was very happy to meet you. I wanted to share few stories of my own with you with gratitude that it may be an encouragement to others.
I was born in Germany, raised in South Korea and [...]

Checkout David’s latest sermons from Paderborn, Germany, in both English and German.

Dear AMA Family,
Bob Edwards spent over a week in Venezuela dedicating time to the continued search. Below is a summary of his trip in relation to the search. I sincerely appreciate all he has done and continues to do to find Bob and the others. This appreciation also goes to his wife, Lisa, for her [...]

Check out the latest videos from our newest DVD "Having Nothing, Having It All."

Also check out David's latest video podCast of the "Historic landing of our Adventist Medical Aviation plane on Lake Titicaca."

Dear AMA family,
Thanks to each of you who have contributed in some way to the AMA project and search. In way of information there are two families, Celso's and another couple who Bob and Neiba had been giving $250 each a month as a stipend. Celso did the flight scheduling and took care of all [...]

Doinel "Dorú" Tartea comparte acerca de los avances y las necesidades para voluntarios en el Centro Educativo Familia Feliz en la selva de Bolivia. En especial necesitan un agricultor de experiencia.
Doinel "Doru" Tartea (Familia Feliz General Director) shares about the progress and needs at this school and safe home for children in the jungles of [...]

Christina Dawang, School Director of Familia Feliz, shares her happiness that enough volunteers have come to help this year, but others will be needed for the year 2010 - Spanish-speaking teachers, a mechanic, a nurse, someone who knows about agriculture and Spanish-speaking houseparents.
Click on the Volunteers link at the top of this page if you'd [...]

Hi Everybody,
We just recently finished a much needed two week vacation (winter break down here), allowing volunteers some rest and tranquillity while the children visited their families. A surazo (cold south front) announced the commencement of classes again, although for a short time, we wondered if there would even be any students on campus to [...]

See up-to-date happenings at Familia Feliz.  Our volunteers reflect the love of Jesus, touching lives of children and youth who consider Familia Feliz their home and the staff their "parents."  Filmed by Tim de la Torre and edited by his wife Jaymie.
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NORTON SEARCH DOCUMENTARY FILM PROJECT
By Bob Edwards
Prepared: August 6, 2009

On February 16, 2009 at approximately 7:45 AM my close friend Captain Robert “Bob” Norton, his wife and 5 others went missing in the jungles of Venezuela. Bob has been serving there as a missionary pilot to the Indigenous Indians for the past 8 years [...]

Handrails are being added to the interior stairs of the big building at Familia Feliz so the children will be safer.
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A bridge is being built over the soggy creekbed between the main building and the rest of the Familia Feliz campus so the kids and volunteers can stay cleaner during the rainy season.
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Video en Español – Video in Spanish
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Aleida Barrera Solar, voluntaria de Colombia, es maestra de alumnos de Segundo año de Primaria y Primer año de Secundaria.  Una cosa que le impresionó bastante sucedió al llegar a Familia [...]

Familia Feliz volunteer Sara Ross from Canada shares the joys and challenges of guiding children at the school and orphanage as they all grow in their walk with Jesus.  Sometimes the kids have a bad attitude, but then they surprise her with something special!
Voluntaria de Canadá Sara Ross comparte los gozos y dificultades de guiar [...]

Voluntaria de Riberalta, Beni, Bolivia, Carola tiene el gusto de servir en Familia Feliz como misionera.  Se ha impresionado al escuchar las experiencias difíciles que han sufrido los simpáticos niños bajo su cuidado.  A Carola le da gozo compartir el amor de Jesús y ver cómo van creciendo y aprendiendo a ser responsables estos niños [...]

Jerry, a volunteer from Mexico, began volunteering at Familia Feliz school & orphanage in February, 2009.  He serves as a teacher and boys' dean to homeless, otherwise unloved children.  He’s really impressed as he sees the transformation of hopeless kids into loving children when they see for them what a real family is like.
Jerry es [...]

Heidi Inés Weber Wanderer de Paraguay comparte sus experiencias de voluntaria en el Centro Educativo Familia Feliz localizado en la hermosa selva en Bolivia.  Heidi está enseñando y aprendiendo a la vez, ya que es maestra de Primer y Séptimo año, y ayuda a cuidar a los niños.  En especial a Heidi le impresionó que [...]

Video en Español – Video in Spanish
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Jenny Figueroa, voluntaria Colombiana, es Preceptora y “Mamá” de 8 niñas en el Centro Educativo Familia Feliz, localizado en la selva Amazónica cerca de Rurrenabaque, Bolivia.  También es maestra de Primero [...]

We're excited with the progress of the construction for our helicopter hangar and duplex housing. Thanks so much for your help in making this happen! We praise God for providing this land for our base in the perfect location and in a beautiful setting with the coconut trees, creek, and green rice patties all around. [...]

Doinel Tartea, voluntario de Rumania, es Director del Centro Educativo Familia Feliz.  Dorú no tiene dudas de que Dios lo ha llamado para servir en Familia Feliz.  Y nos pregunta, ¿Qué hacemos con los dones y bienes que Dios nos ha dado?"
Doinel Tartea, a volunteer from Romania is the Director of Familia Feliz Educational Center [...]

As the search continues:
We have relatively new intel from a Brazilian man who was near Maurak at a gold mine the morning the plane went missing.  He claims he saw the plane fly over around 9:00 am, which would allign with a scenario that Bob had problems and was headed back to home base in [...]

Sunday, May 24, aof pilots, computer techs, analysts, and engineers gathered at Cloudland Canyon State park in Georgia for a strategic summit meeting regarding the Norton search. As team leader Bob Edwards organized and arranged this meeting for the purpose of determining the primary and secondary search zones. Rick and Debbie Slatten drove down from [...]

A BIG THANK YOU FROM A LITTLE CHURCH
New church for Cabar
God has blessed the little Cabar church near our land in many ways lately. They would like to send their thanks to each of you who have helped our project which has also benefited them in many ways! First of all, they praise God for [...]

PAMAS needs a helper at our location in Brooks Point Palawan for working on our hanger and housing project. We need someone that can stay six months at our location. The applicant must be a male that is personable, knowledgeable in construction, knows how to oversee a project while working also, and keep [...]

Located on the Amazon floodplains in the district of Beni in northeastern Bolivia, just 30 kilometers southeast of Guayaramerín, the Bolivia Industrial School (BIS) endeavors to prepare students for gospel service through an education that balances academics with spiritual pursuits and training in practical labor. Founded through Gospel Ministries International, a non-profit organization that [...]

Christina Dawang is the Director of the Familia Feliz school.
Video in English – Video en Inglés
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Christina Dawang has volunteered at Familia Feliz for more than two years - ever since she stopped by as a tourist to [...]

Step of Faith
We had a faith-building experience the other day.  The head elder, Lito from the Cabar church and his family had been humbly asking for our help in finding a sponsor for their daughter to be able to go back to the Adventist academy here on Palawan. She had gone last year but they [...]

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