Mission Stories

The last week of school was an emotional one as the students and staff said goodbye to one of the toughest semesters in the school’s history.

There is so much joy in the Christmas season, but this year there seems to be a dash of extra joy in our home.

This last week someone caught me off guard with a most interesting question. “What sort of miracles and answers to prayer have you seen since your flight bag was stolen?”

We arrived in Loma Linda 2 weeks ago and I attended the Robinson Helicopter maintenance course in Torrance while Wendy stayed with her brother and family in Loma Linda.

On November 8, 2015 will mark the 2nd anniversary of Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. Many places have been damaged and lives were lost including their livelihoods.

Proceeded by a generalized struggle with different kinds of diseases on the last days, finally on the 20th of October, the team of nineteen people got together and crowded in a minibus and left for a long, tiring and dusty road.

Dear friends,

In October 13 we left on our first Medical Mission trip to Mamore River, north-east Bolivia in the State of Beni, one of the poorest states in the country;

Last month, we tried to buy a used minivan for the mission, but the car which we wanted was sold out already and another minivan on the Internet was way more expensive than the one we tried to buy first.

Bang! I felt something hit the back of the van. It was a Thursday afternoon and hotter than Hades in mid-summer. All the windows that could be rolled down in my van were fully down since the air conditioner was out of commission.