Trip to Talca

This is a short letter sent out to our team by Mark Rubin, after he, Doug, Jon Spink, Alejandro Armijo, (All ABWE) and John Niemeyer (BMM), finished up the weekend distributing Shelter Boxes donated to our national mission agency to distribute.

To sum up the trip, we left Saturday morning, stopped by the Talagante
church to pick up things to take down, then made a convoy down to
Talca. Got there and went to our place of base operations, then went
to a storage shed on a vineyard to unload the Shelter Boxes. We had
225 to unload that had come in. Then that night they instructed us on
the distribution of the things in the boxes: 2 tents, 3 sleeping bags,
2 collapsable water jugs, water purifcation tablets, kitchen utensils/place
settings, a small wood cookstove, and a few other items. In addition,
we were able to pass out tracts and verbally share the gospel with the
people that we would distribute the boxes to.

On Sunday we went to Pencahue, just west of Talca. There the team
Doug Amundson, Jon Niemeyer and I were on delivered all 12 boxes with the
rest of our team. Then on Monday we went to the small town of Villa
Pratt, just northwest of Talca. There due to several other
complicating factors, our team only delivered 8 boxes. Mind you the
delivery also includes the pitching the 2 tents and explaining the necessary
items, and sometimes clearing a good site for the tents.

For pictures, because I can't post over 200 of them here, go to our ministry photo website through Shutterfly at http://amundsonanthem.shutterfly.com/ . The password is the country that we live and serve in and it IS case sensitive!