We arrived at Camdenton, MO to volunteer at New Tribes Mission on March 30th until April 19th. We served there with 5 other couples.
Richard & Laurie Kuehmichel
Gerald & Maxine Martin
Rog & Char Quakkelaar
Fran & Kent Hillman
Gerald Martin
& Bill McClintick
Bill & Betsy McClintick
and us!
The project was amazing, a place where missionaries go for literacy education and final preparations before leaving the USA and their mission destination. Our duties varied for the men and women and we met many fellow brothers & sisters in Christ that were either ready to go to the mission field or they were on furlough or back in the states for medical leave, etc.
Our men gutted a walk-in freezer, rewired it, put in new special walls for freezers followed by vinyl wallboard, installed a freezer unit and repaired the flooring to make it level. They scraped, prepared and painted at least 2 outside walls of the tech center and painted one of the educational rooms upstairs. They also replaced many outdoor window sills, prepped and painted.
Ladies purged the library, cleaned out and purged one main storage closet and one smaller one inside the bookstore, and cleaned, re-arranged and purged the food pantry/clothes pantry house. It entailed changing out the winter to summer clothes, scrubbing shelving, throwing out dated food away and bringing in new donated items to the house and sorting.
Several mornings missionaries attended and led our devotions, what a treat. We heard first hand experiences from the field and met many getting ready to go to the field and how they obeyed the Lord's call to go. What a privilege it was for us indeed.
Lake of the Ozarks close to where
we worked at New Tribes Mission
Training Center in Roach, Missouri.
Our 5 couples serving this month.
We had an outing to the Bagnell Dam
on the Lake of the Ozarks.
L to R: Hillman's, Fieler's, Quakkelaar's,
Kuehmichel's and the Martin's. This
was taken in the lodge of the info center
for the dam.
The Bagnell Dam
Tonka State Park
close to Roach, Missouri
The man who built the abandoned
castle at Tonka State Park
NTM campus nestled on Lake
of the Ozarks
Gail & Laurie purging books
in the library.
The men scraped, prepared window sills and painted
the Tech Center.
Gerald getting ready to take
special wallboard into the
walk-in freezer.
Roger inside the walk-in freezer.
Laurie working in the toy section of the
clothes closet.
Maxine cleaning the refrigerators
in the food pantry.
Char re-arranging house wares in
the clothes closet.
Fran re-arranging the craft
area of the clothes closet.
Me scrubbing food bins in
the food pantry.
Gerald painting the Tech Center.
Kent painting the Tech Center.
Wayne had to modify the size
of the right drawer so that it
became usable in the kitchen.
Wayne was asked to trim the bi-fold
curtain so that the meeting room
could be shut off from the kitchen.
The Tech Center with a
new coat of paint. Good job guys!
Freezer unit installed
in walk-in freezer unit.
Scraping and prep work.
Rog & Char Quakkelaar celebrated
their 60th wedding anniversary
and made this the last
SOWER project totaling
117 official projects.
Alright boys and girls
play nice!!!
We were invited to take a
tour of the Tech Center where
they educate the missionaries
on providing electricity and
purifying their water while
on the field.
Our parking spot while serving at NTM.
This was a wonderful project serving missionaries, meeting them and learning about their assignments as well as their families. Everyone who works at the Training Center raises their own support. This was truly a humbling experience for all of us. Thank you NTM.
