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A PET GOES TO PERU A recent medical mission trip from Davis islands Baptist Church in
Tampa, Florida sponsored by Missionary Ventures International carried a
PET to Peru and sent this report. "Taking the PET with the team was
quite a challenge as it weighed 140 lbs. and the box was quite large.
Once in Peru it had to be unpacked and taken apart to fit in the little
plane that carried the team to the jungle. It then traveled with the
team by canoe to the village where they held clinic. It was presented by
his pastor in a very nice church service to a man whose legs were
paralyzed. The man, who had fallen away from the Lord was drawn back by
the love of Jesus shared by the team and rode his PET every day to
attend the pastor/leadership conference being held that week in his
village."
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VOLUNTEERS
AT PET FLORIDA ARE HARD AT WORK Today, the 25th of September, 2002, we packed PET number 236. That is how many we have packed since PET construction started here 16 months ago. We also have 20 more in the curing line ready to pack. Volunteer packers John Muilen burg and Melvin Richey are pictured. PET MISSOUR HOST A PET CELEBRATION DINNER Saturday the 23rd of September was
described as a mountain top experience by many of the 80 plus PET
volunteers from across the U.S. who gathered at the PET Place in
Columbia, Missouri. They were there to learn, share, brainstorm, and
plan while celebrating what God is doing through PET. Speakers were Mark
Richard of the mobility organization Hope Haven who receive and
distribute many of our PET's with their wheelchair shipments to over 75
countries, Larry Hills of PET Florida, and Mel West, director of PET
Missouri. Earl Miner who designed the original PET was there to
demonstrate his newest design effort, the PUSH PET, which, among many
uses, can be used as a stretcher bearer in crowded areas without roads
such as refugee camps. The brainstorming sessions where small groups of
those present gathered to consider several of the problems facing PET
now or in the near future in organization, distribution, design changes,
etc. produced much material to be compiled and circulated for futher
discussion and action. Many of the PET parts makers had the opportunity
to see for the first time how their work fits into the finished product
and many of those present were able to meet face to face for the first
time. Several of the parts makers who supply PET Florida were there and
were pleased to hear first hand from PET Florida director Larry Hills,
how valuable their contributions are to our PET production here. A
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BOXED PET’S TRAVEL TO HOPE HAVEN AND 65 TO MERCY SHIPS In late June PET Florida loaded 65 PET'S Into a one way U-HAUL truck, hitched a small, donated, Acura car behind for the return trip, and PET volunteers Melvin and Betty Richey climbed aboard for the two and a half day trip north to deliver them to Hope Haven in Rock Valley, Iowa. There they have been combined with Hope Haven's wheelchair shipments primarily to the landinined areas of the world where they are allocated to those people who live in places a wheelchair can't go. At the PET celebration reported in the previous article Mark Richard said this shipment went mostly to Viet Nam. DAN DORSEY, PARTS MAKER PAR EXCELLENCE Dan, who lives near Kansas City, welds and sends us most of our brake
handles, brake shoes, and chain tension bolts
Yes! I want to bring mobility to a person. whose legs do not function! Please find my check enclosed.$ for PET's at $250.00 each toward the purchase of a PET.
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