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• To join a mission trip check out these pages: Participant Information,  Participant Mandatory Requirements and Calendar links.
     
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If you would like Stephen Arrington to speak at your church or academy call or email him steve@drugsbite.com.   There is no charge, his is a faith ministry.  He would do the church service and a Saturday night vesper program; it is only at the vesper program that he would ask to take an offering for Fiji.

Steve's Speaking Schedule:

• Modesto Central SDA Church, CA
  Feb 4 at 11:00 am & 4:30 pm
• Central ValleySDA Church, Fresno CA
  Feb 11 at 11:00 am & 4:30 pm
• Calistoga SDA Church, CA
  Feb 25 at 11:00 am & 5:00 pm
• Roseberg SDA Church, OR
  Mar 10 8 at 11:00 am & 5:00 pm
• Hemet SDA Church, CA
  April 7 at 11:00 am & 5:00 pm
• Bass Academy, LA
  April 27 at 7:00 pm, April 28 at 10:00, 11:00 & 6:30 PM

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How Project Fiji began:
The morning song of an exotic bird stirs me gently from my sleep. The melody drifts through an open window on the back of a warm tropical breeze. It is still dark outside here in the South Pacific as I listen to the drumming sound of an approaching rain squall. The cascading water marches in rapidly from the ocean, hammers across the tin roof, then it tramps up the mountainside leaving a moist freshness in its wake.  Click here to continue...

News Flashes: (Updated Feb 03, 2012)

Two mission groups needs volunteers, particularly medical and dental professions.  Portland Adventist Academy in March and A medical/dental/education/evangelistic outreach in Savusavu in May.

Go to our calendar link to see upcoming mission trips, which still have some openings.  We also need a volunteer teacher for one year at Nagigi Elementary School, which is about 20km from Savusavu Fiji. Calendar links.

We are looking for two mission groups to put in cement side walks at VuniKura and Loa Village in Buca Bay.  This is far more important that it appears.  In these coast villages, their older septic tanks can overflow in heavy rain or high tides.  The result is people could be walking on contaminated grass.  Of course, our other projects there is to put in new septic tanks in better locations.

Roger Lutz, the Project Manager for the DMF has again secured a letter of support from the Fiji, Northern Health Services, confirming their desire that we provide medical and dental services to the schools and remote villages of Northern Fiji, which includes two of the second largest islands and Rabi Island, which was particularly hard hit my the cyclone of 2010.  This letter is critical because it assures us of complete government support which greatly increases our outreach into the Fijian communities.

Laurelwood Academy sent a youth group to Fiji in March.  They helped out at Vunicura Village repairing homes damaged by the cyclone last year and put in cement walkways.  The walkways are far more important that one might normally anticipate.  When heavy rains hits the villages older septic tanks can overflow so those raised walkways are hugely important to the families there.

Mission group returns from three week trip to Rabi Island where they tested and inoculated 2545 people for tuberculosis and typhoid.  They also ran medical and dental clinics.  This is in conjunction with stage III of our cyclone relief project.

Engineers Without Borders is working with the DMF to provide slow sand water filtration systems.  In August they put in a slow sand filter system at Banaban Elementary School.

Cyclone Update:

See our new picture lower left of gardening tools, starter roots and seeds delivered to Loa Village. Like deliveries were made to Rabi Island.

We completed food deliveries and purchased gardening tools, seeds and starter roots.  With so many disasters around the world it is difficult to know who to give to...we are a small foundation so our donations go much further.  Helping people to grow food costs a lot less that trying to feed them.

Regarding the picture of the Methodist Church, note that most of the roof has been ripped away.  This is exactly the same damage that has happened to so many homes, however they didn't have cement walls so their houses got leveled.  We were very blessed that the SDA church built by the DMF and the SDA church built by a Canadian mission group three years ago, were both barely damaged, thank you Lord. 

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Our Project Manger, Roger Lutz, just returned from a very successful mission trip to Vietnam.  For Roger it was the mission trip of a life time as he was a medic who served extensively throughout that war ravaged country during the Vietnam Conflict.

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Looking for Mission Groups.  If your church would like to accept one of the villages as a mission project please contact us.  We are also eagerly seeking mission groups to help us develop the DMF 100 acre property.  We need to build housing, a tool shop and other projects. 

The DMF has completed its first bungalow, which can sleep 20 people.

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