How to Survive in the Bush

There are few areas in the world these days where missionaries have to learn to survive in the bush. However, we are mandated by Christ to go unto the ends of the earth. Subsequently, some practitioners will end up called to live in some areas that still lack basic infrastructures. Surviving such extremes can be quite challenging in many ways. Medical practitioners have to practice medicine with little or no diagnostic help other than their own clinical skills. Their families will have to learn to survive without electricity, internet, running water, or personal space. The speaker and her husband will share from their own personal experiences of living 4 years in Southern Sudan on how they lived and did more than just “merely survive.”