Archive for Archive for March, 2009

Disappearance of the Venezuela Mission Plane

Nearly eight years ago, at the request of 30 village captains and
ADRA/Venezuela, my wife Becky and I began praying for a pilot that
could replace us in Guyana so we could move to Venezuela to open up
the medical aviation work there. When Gary and Wendy Roberts were
lead of God to take up the work in Guyana, [...]

Posted on Sunday, March 29th, 2009

AR – Venezuela Search Continues

Venezuela: Search Continues for Missing Medical Missionary Plane
BY LIBNA STEVENS, news coordinator, Inter-America Division [ See Original Story ]

Pilot Robert
Norton with his wife Neiba lead out the
Adventist Medical Aviation based in Gran
Sabana, Venezuela.
[photo: courtesy of AMA]

Adventist search teams continue looking for a medical missionary plane which went missing on Monday February 16 in the jungles [...]

Posted on Thursday, March 19th, 2009

The Missing Mission Plane

Very early on Monday morning, February 16, 2009 the AMA Venezuela plane took off and headed north toward Ciudad Bolivar.

Experienced mission pilot Bob Norton has been flying in southeast Venezuela for 8 years. His wife Neiba usually stays at home, but this time she accompanied her husband.

The plane landed briefly at the village of [...]

Posted on Wednesday, March 18th, 2009