-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 06:18 27-01-04, Mike Burke wrote: >Nice post! It's something I can relate too. When I was 15 I did just >about >all of that type of thing when I was on the Mission field in Bolivia. >At >that time then I actually had some friends who were on the Mission >field in >PNG. You had cicadas early in the morning, we had poisonous snakes.
Ahh! Another MK! It is amazing how different life is for MKs. There is one boy who was on the trip who has lived 10 of his 11 years in PNG. To him, the USA is just another foreign country. By the way, we have poisonous snakes here, too, but they aren't common in the highlands. Probably the biggest threats to life and limb here are slipping on the slick, wet clay & falling off of a cliff, tropical diseases, murder, or tribal warfare. Some of the local guys told me about some tragic deaths that happened last December 11th. Three young men went out hiking & drinking beer. It rained, and then it got dark. They kept hiking. One stopped and two kept going & slipped off of a cliff to their death. (They showed me the exact spot.) When the third youth returned to his village and reported the accident, they accused him of sorcery and killed him by cutting both of his femeral arteries with a bush knife (machete). > Yours Is >a Mountain Jungle, Mine was a desert jungle called the Gran Chaco. >Our >houses were made of Adobe mud blocks and straw. We had church 3 times >a day >and rode around with 22 people on the back of a modified Ford pick up >truck. People-packed pickup trucks are a very common sight, here, too. >I got some great pictures of the stuff I did there. I got a few, but unfortunately, my camera is in need of repair due to a close encounter with a rock. > We just didn't do that >bungee jumping thing that they did over in PNG at the time. I wasn't >in the >A/G then, I was a part of a group known as Sprint, which meant >"Special >Projects in The Tribes" One of the leaders of the organization I was >with, >his name was Don Richardson, who was a missionary in the Iriyan Jaya >in PNG. >He is the author of the book "Peace Child" . I'm going to do a >website of >where I will post my pictures from my mission trip. Cool! Please let us know when you get it posted. > This was 1985, I was 15 >then. Bolivian pesos were about next to worthless as one US dollar >was >equal to one million of their pesos at the time. A lot of the skills >I had >learned there I had brought to Rangers with me and was one of the >reasons I >spent the 10 years I did in the Rangers ministry. Most everything we >did in >Bolivia was just like an outdoor camping trip that lasted well over a >month. Camping doesn't have quite the appeal to many MKs here as it does there for precisely that reason. They get enough of that just living in villages. I think it took over a year since our village living experience for my youngest son to express interest in camping, again. Kahunapule -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) Comment: http://eBible.org/mpj/gpg.htm iD8DBQFAFZzfRI/gxxfXR7sRAoO3AJ95Tq3U/CSJK2kReOmjzi66S4c6dwCg6Rio 5i7W3LIY+2SqcE2J2zon2BA= =PfJK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______ List host: http://eBible.org/mpj/ List info: http://eBible.org/rangernet/faq.htm To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://eBible.org/subscribe.htm
