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Warming Bodies and Souls |
| Section: LIFE / LIFE AND IDEALS |
| Author: Alissa Anderson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/2003 |
| Size: 998 Words, 6,222 Characters |
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Roger Shea, a bearded man with blue eyes, looks through a frozen windshield, maneuvering his small airplane through spiteful winds and daunting ice storms above the Bering Sea. Except for the space he and a copilot occupy, the ten-seat Cessna Caravan is filled with 1,500 pounds of relief items. While braving the unpredictable weather, he anticipates their landing on the frozen runway of Provideniya, Russia, about two hundred nautical miles away from Nome, Alaska, and just off the tip of the Aleutians. Once on the ground in Provideniya, they will be carried by snowmobiles and old Soviet personnel carriers called vezdehodi (which means "goes everywhere") along the icy paths that serve as roads.
Shea is a program manager for Samaritan's Purse, a worldwide humanitarian...
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...y the most giving people I've ever met. They will have nothing in the refrigerator but will show you true hospitality. That has really struck me."
Shea is known as a man who walks his talk--snowshoes and all. Ice storms will not deter him from his mission. "As a ministry, I hope to do it several more years," he says. His weapon: a tiny airplane--and plenty of spirit to challenge his frigid foe.
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