Our Chile Mission team is planning to send updates about their work while they’re down in Chile. We’ll be posting those updates as they come in to update you on their work there.

Chile Mission Blog 2014 – 1st Edition

The El Vergel VIM team arrived in Santiago after an overnight flight from Birmingham via Atlanta. Every team member agreed that the seats on the plane were much too hard, especially after several hours with several more to go. That is except for Olivia Howard who shared with us that her favorite seat in all the world is a “bench seat from a pick-up truck.” She said, ” I sleep well in my 1982 Suburban.” We are seeking psychiatric help for her immediately. We were stiff but happy when we deplaned in Santiago.

We were met at the airport by John Elmore our covenant missionary partner in Angol, Chile. He was accompanied by our trusty van driver Francisco. We are here and ready to go. After a day of looking around Santiago, resting and relaxing we boarded the TurBus Semicama at midnight for our overnight trip to Angol.

It is a doubledecker bus. The upstairs portion of the bus has seats that are like recliners.  John Irwin said,  “I’ve never been so comfortable in my life. I slept the whole way.” The downstairs portion of the bus has fully reclining seats that are just like a bed. The “lucky three” had a great night’s sleep as well. It is a decidedly humane way to travel. If the buses in the U.S.A. were like these we would all be taking long bus trips.

So after two days of travel we arrived at our destination, the El Vergel Methodist Agricultural School. We are happy to be here and ready to start work.