This is in the news paper today

I should be a photographer

for the Daily Post

The Principle took the opportunity to get me 

to take a photo and he wrote the story 

In South East Ambrym, Senai School

Roger on the way to the Wairau Valley

early start 4.30 at Airport depart 7.00am

A drop off point to give a guitar away

NZ couple handing over to happy person

At the Airport to see the men OFF to NZ

Classroom at Senai School South East Ambrym

built by the Parents to get the children back to school

James's house at Assie Village dining room

Bedroom

Out-door view of the house and teacher James

Im working with him to get a new school in Assie

Great to see some of the men contribute part of their earning from RSE work

to build a dispensary in Pango  

Coconut Soap

The working hours of a Mission worker

If your asked! what does a plumber or mechanic do you would be able to give a brief description so I thought I would let you know what I do as a mission worker so if your asked you can give a brief description,

6.00am wake (to hot to say in bed) turn on the computer to catch up with overnight email and log                               onto the breeze wellington radio on the laptop

                        Answer any emails for around the world

6.30 – 700am  shower / breakfast  (I like toast & bananas)

7.30am -8.00am   head down to the Presbyterian Church office and catch up with

                              other for a sharing time followed by a 2-hour meeting on Mon/fri

                              on the disaster issues

8.30am                   Monitor containers arriving clearance thru NDMO and customs               

                               Agriculture and hand the containers over to the distribution team

                                Update Blog Page

                               Computer emails and keeping everyone informed of there

                               requirements for container movements  & arrivals shipping

                                   

                              Monitor mission teams coming and going checking on their Materials being

                              On site prior to them coming.

                              Following up on building projects

                              Answering questions via email for people wanting to come help

                              (How ,when & where.) so they can come and experience and help

                              Sometimes people have been referred to me to check out

                              The state of the accommodation after cyclone as no contact with

                              Hotels receptions has been able to reached

                             Mission Organizations like United World / PCANZ/ Koreans church

                             Wanting a answer to questions on different projects and my view

                             So that they can make decision.

                             Being available to travel to outer island to get answers and overviews

Lunch time          11.30 – 1.30 two hours  (great we all should adopt this)

Afternoon            continue planning and preparing information and help

                             Keeping people informed here (as NZ errs) we a very informed on what

                             is happening, But here it can get (island Time) no worries it will

                             Happen when it happens.

Finish work 4.30

                              Come home do the washing ironing & cooking followed by vacuuming

                              Clean toilet /shower and dust before Gloria gets home

After 6pm             check more emails & Blog Page

8pm                        Log onto TV3 News (delayed) and try to get full coverage without

                               Picture freezing

9pm-10pm sleeps after cleaning teeth (married a Dental Nurse)

Any jobs or shopping needed to be done just stop and go and do it like

haircuts we don’t have to wait till after work, as it seems we are full time here

 so if we need to do things when they pop up , instead of scheduling

Them into after work or weekends as it may not be there or closed so

It makes sense to do it when it needs to get done.

We also meet a number of people at airports & hotels who are coming going and need to pass on items on prior to departing a kind of drop box. We have a guitar to hand over on Friday.

also host friends & Family time to time

Bob from MAAT explaining how the distribution of food happens

each village has a population and food is given our to the head count

the news paper showing us opening the container of potatoes

Who got in the paper!!!

The facia boards arrived about 4 weeks later than needed

now we can get the place looking better

2 of the men who work in Renwick vineyards

in the summer team

Returned after 7 months in NZ

Seth & Philomon

To get a bank account it took 3 days 

to get a driver's licence 15 minutes

cost $10,000 Vatu

It all start here, the real wheel barrows comes soon!!

Its beef tonight for dinner for all the villages 

No fridges here!!! no power in the village

sitting and enjoying a catch with friends  

Joel's Mother

Saturday busy at work helping Global Missions 

2 classrooms gone totally

at Senai School where I taught a few lessons 

in 2013

one classroom covered with a tarp and

the other the roof has gone

This is Aleisha & Gloria at Senai School

named after Gloria & Aleisha Jones

Gloria preparing for Dentist arriving in June

Gloria is excited for this mobil dental unit is at the back door

great to see good equipment

This truck will be taken around Efate with a dentist doing work

in June

The toilets delivered to South East Ambrym

as relief 

the people in Vanuatu dont squat!!

but these are great shower floors

This is a new style local house in Assie Village

built off the the ground. 

This is what the rebuilding is looking like in 

Utas Village Vanuatu 

Using old roofing material as new thatching wont be 

available as need 2 years to grow

all trees damaged by PAM

This is how the men from Utas Village in Vanuatu make timber

for houses

Chief Simon from Utas 

the Village we stay at when we go to Ambrym

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I will be back on the 20th and will post photos 

of Utas and other villages that I visit

No internet and limited cell coverage 

on Ambrym Island

Vanuatu

The cruise ships are back visiting 

3 this week

Next to cruise ships are the local Island shipping

The smaller items are thrown on board 

more manual labour is available than machines.

We sent some boxes over in January 

and we got them today

No customs duties

The men said some nice comments about us as pastoral care  

so the customs just gave us a node to GO!!

Custom clearance at the container site

Well Im away to the Island of Ambrym on Friday for 6 days 

helping to project build a Bible school 

in Assie Village 

Its a 3/4 hour flight from Port Vila 

(the large Island at bottom of photo)

If anyone interested in going to help sometime let me know

I will be flying into the South East of Ambrym

It has 2 Volcanos now on Ambrym

This is where I will be living 

Here is where the Wairau Parish built the 

Jimmy Ansen house that Raymond & I 

help build

This is how they load the boats , drive them into

the shores edge and drop the bow and load up

The office made the news 

I arranged a call to the newspaper which helped

Old Tugs getting loaded to go and drop of freight around the island

This is how they move Potatoes in Vanuatu

These ones get a window seat

All 9 Ton are man thrown at speed from one man to another

Its Blue sky's today, it has been raining (big Fulla) for 3 days

( NOT use to rain when we were in Blenheim)