Over the last couple days, I once again found myself teaching at Vangaurd in Edmonton. I had a great time looking at development and internattional issues relating to Partnership. I gave a Readers Digest version of the following article, but I thought I would reproduce it here in its entirety. I am not sure about reprint info, so if I hear anything, I will take it down …
A Single Lucid Moment: Robert Soderstrom
As the plane buzzed back over the mountains, it was now just us and the villagers of Maimafu. My wife, Kerry, and I were assigned to this village of 800 people in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. It looked as if we were in for a true Indiana Jones adventure!
The mountains were dramatic and thick with rain forest. No roads had ever scarred them. We had loaded a four-seater plane with cargo (we would fly out every three months to resupply) and flew for 30 bumpy minutes southwest to the mountain ridges. From the plane, the village looked very much like a shoe-box panorama from a grade-school science project.
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