Prairie Bible Institute - Prairian Yearbook (Three Hills, Alberta Canada)

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Struggle For Balance Yigww, N r 'Nm 1' w+i'e91 ' 72 qw: . ' M Y Y J' Below, Neil Krahn finds an unexpected avenue oi service in being a station maintenance man. Beth Black fat leftj experienced many new adventures in Ethiopia, one of which was digging a garbage pit for her backyard.

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Short-termers In I can't believe I'm on the other side of the world, ascended a shaky voice from a cluster of young people. Dark-skinned customs of- ficials, rummaging through our baggage, added confusion to our arrival at the Addis Abada lnter- national Airport. Our eyes, blurry and red from two sleepless nights en route, we forced open, lest the smallest trace of foreign life should escape notice. Nearly one hundred of us, we began to realize our title Relief and Rehabilitation Workers. For most of us twenty PBlers, a 2-3 day bus ride provided close contact with the nationals we came to serve. As our party bid farewell to those going on to neighbouring posts, our minds echoed, Surely someone made a mistakeg this place isn't for me. Even the bus seemed to mock us, stranded palefaces , lliterally pale now from its trailing dusty. The intense stares of the black people only taunted our shocked state. We loaded our gear and wearied bodies onto a waiting truck, which moved us to our main station. Our reception from senior mis- sionaries and workers was enthusiastic, warm, and skeptical. Skeptical? We understood their in- itial doubts about our experience and education. But as the weeks passed, their suspicion seemed only microscopic to our own fears and feelings of inadequacy. In spite of efforts from our knowledgeable Missions teacher and varied missionary reports at P.B.l., no one was completely prepared. I came equipped to spend my year out in the bush. I Primitive conditions do not hinder Beth Black in her assistance in mobile clinic work frightj. Misplaced families and orphans labovel await food, medicine, and a little tender loving care at the orphan camp at Alamatta.

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Dr. J. Porter treats Nancy Hetherington in his open air office lfar rightj. The arrival of relief workers causes confu- sion as they transfer belongings from bus to station pick-up lrightl. Lois Mann fbelowj finds that nursing in Ethiopia includes extracting an absessed tooth. 4 U, X' it A JJ-5 , we . ,tt-Y.: , --Ml, '-4. ,ma K we -1 Leaf.. ,