2003 Archives
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plainview_iraq_82503
Posted: 8/22/03
Lt. Col. Michael Keller has a cup off coffee at Camp Babylon, actually one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces. Plainview man helps bring better health to Iraq
By Jonathan Petty
Wayland Baptist University
CAMP BABYLON, Iraq–Lt. Col. Michael Keller sets foot outside his temporary home in a former presidential palace in Iraq. What meets his eyes isn't pretty. All the windows and doors in the building were broken out or destroyed during the looting and riots that followed in the wake of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
08/23/2003 - By John Rutledge
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summer_russia_82503
Posted: 8/22/03
Dallas Baptist University student Micah Blalock (with guitar) leads Russian orphans and American volunteers in worship during a summer camp session for orphans.At right, DBU student Andrew Briscoe poses with a new friend, Vova, a Russian orphan boy. Texas students travel to Russia with love
DALLAS–Andrew Briscoe, a graduate student at Dallas Baptist University, has devoted much of his life to learning in the classroom. But after a month-long summer missionary internship working in the orphanages of St. Petersburg, Russia, he is quick to tell listeners that education also takes place on the hard surface of the mission field.
DBU students Leslie Whitlock and Danny Krumbholz provide recreational fun for an orphan Briscoe and eight other DBU students joined students from six other colleges, including Baylor University, to work as summer missionaries, or interns, through Buckner Orphan Care International. The team provided a Christian witness–and love –to children living in Russian orphanages and orphanage hospitals through summer camp programming, Vacation Bible Schools, personal attention and support of shorter-term volunteers.
For Briscoe, the internship was a learning experience in missions involvement. “I wanted to be a part of this trip so I would have a greater understanding of missions. The entire month was an incredible learning period and the spiritual growth we experienced was amazing,” he said.
08/23/2003 - By John Rutledge
