Mission Stories

By the grace of our heavenly Father, after six years we are blessed to be able to continue working in our Nature School as a base for our mission. One of our staff members, Asako Itou who is 35 years old, had Christian grandparents.

With much anticipation, we arrived on Sunday 26 to the city of San Borja. Which is located to the Northwest of the Bolivia, where the indigenous Chimani communities are located. They live at the banks of the Maniquí river and their diet consists of mainly fish, plantain and yucca.

I was inspired when I frequently heard about medical missionary work from renowned presenters of present truth. Further investigation led me to look at medical missionary training videos online. Also after hearing personal testimonies of others, I began my journey to understanding what is real medical missionary work.

Up to this point the types of medical flights we have been making have been to transport patients from rural locations to a city hospital. This is helpful of course and the patients are grateful to get to the hospital but we are seeing the need to be able to provide care while in transit and are looking for an airplane with the capability to provide air ambulance services.

A poem by: Mrs. Verlon Henry

With so many voices in the world today, where can we turn to find the truth? How can we know God’s will and guard against Satan’s deceptions? Does it really matter what we believe?

This month we invited Pastor Kaoru Inoue, a former gang member of Yakuza to a special lecture in the summer evangelism program and asked him to talk about his own experiences. The theme was “You can start over again your life in Jesus”.

Seventeen years ago, little did I dream that I would be flying over the jungles of my own country, Guyana. I was baptized when I was nine years old into the Paruima Seventh- Day Adventist church but after several years of several years of studying in the capital city, Georgetown; I gradually strayed from God’s will and way.

Plane #2 Down

The past few months have been challenging but rewarding. In May we had the privilege of visiting and helping with some other mission aviation projects in Indonesia, and while we were there we attended a Medical Missionary Summit put on by Southern Asia-Pacific Division’s health department.

The weekend of June 30th to July 3rd, 2017 was a memorable one for the Bethany Village and more directly the Bethany Medical Missionary College located up the Supenaam Creek, Region 2.