B10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 15, 1995

MISSIONARY JAKE THIESSEN attacks a vandalized Sunday Schoo! wall with a loaded paint roller. He and his wife Joy volunteered for a month in Venezuala, working for the Alliance Church buliding Sunday School rooms,

MISSIONARIES

Volunteering South America

Imagine volunteering to mix 525 bags of cement, in searing 40 degree plus temperatures, That’s what Reverend Jake Thiessen and his wife Joy agreed to when they took on the challenge of mission- ary work in Venezuela,

The Alliance Church, to which Thiessen and his wife belong, organizes missionary projects in the developing. world each year. Any member can participate in missionary projects, but they have to pay their own way.The Thiessens chose Venezuela be- cause the airfare was within their budget.

The couple spent last February in the South American country, painting walls and pouring con- crete for Sunday school rooms.

"We poured over 2,000 wheel- barrows full of concrete," says Thiessen,

Despite the heat, Thiessen didn’t mind the hard work.

"The weather was 95 to 105 de-

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gees, and the people received us just as warmly," says Thiessen. Another member of the Al- liance Church, David Fisher, also volunteered for missionary work and was sent to southern Chile,

"We were building chapels for rural native churches," says Fisher. "For one church we had to take the equipment up a hillside by ox cart... . It was being buile for a community of about 400 people."

While working on the churches, Fisher was siruck by the large gap between the rich and poor in Chile. It wasn’t uncommon to see a Mercedes Benz and a horse- drawn cart on the same road, he commented.

When Fisher and the other mis- Sionaries finished building the churches, the native people, the

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