We recently had an opportunity to go on a three-day Practical/Survival skills trip. The purpose was to help equip New Tribes Mission missionaries as they live and or visit remote locations in the deep jungles where unreached people groups often live.
We knew it was going to be a doozy of a trip when we learned we would be hiking everything in (including food) and would have to find our base camp via GPS coordinates, map, and compass. The experience was great! … fun may not be the best way to describe if I’m honest, but VERY beneficial for sure. Through we had rain and chilly temps that dipped into the 30’s at night, we had a chance to learn and practice a ton.
Very glad NTM values equipping and training so much… It makes a huge difference.
Heading out to our base camp via GPS coordinates
Heading into the forest on our compass bearing
Found our first location and found hidden tarps and new coordinates. Time to reconfigure the bearing!
Back on the hunt
Happy to have arrived
building our tarp shelter
building our tarp shelter
building our tarp shelter
building our tarp shelter
our tarp shelter
our tarp shelter (waterproof and warm)
our village of tarp shelters
Class
Chainsaw class
Found these lovely dudes right by our shelters… TONS of them everywhere…
Building our water pump to bring water into camp.
Building our water pump to bring water into camp.
Making our dinner over the fire
Chainsaw class
Chainsaw class – Firewood time!
tree climbing class
Solar system setup
Solar system setup
suturing class – a basic bush medical skill
suturing class – a basic bush medical skill
suturing class – a basic bush medical skill
Practicing bush medical care
Practicing bush medical care – homemade stretcher
Knife class – Bree sharpening her pocket knife
Preparing chicken dinner
Preparing chicken dinner
Chicken Kabobs for dinner!
Our team
Our team
Our team
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