Stephen Arrington is a drug education and motivational speaker. To schedule speaking engagements at public schools, churches and fund raising events call (530) 872-4884 or go to www.drugsbite.com

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  Most Commonly Requested Fiji Info  

• To join a mission trip check out these pages: Participant Information,  Participant Mandatory Requirements and Calendar links.
     
• Click here for Physician, Dentist and Nurse-needs, information and schedules.     
• To Mail Medicines to the Buca Bay Medical Clinic:
     Dream Machine Foundation, PO Box 515
     Savusavu, Fiji   (do not overvalue packages)
• Steve's Dive Club: Dive trip to Fiji, June 19 - 29, please click here Dive Trips to Fiji  Spend a week or more SCUBA diving and enjoying incredible Fijian meals at a highly rated resort. 

Stephen Arrington's Upcoming Speaking Schedule
For public school program information visit www.drugsbite.com.

• Calistoga SDA Church, CA
  May 10th at 11:00 AM and 7:00 PM
• Eugene SDA Church, OR
  May 24 at 11:00 AM and 7:30 PM
• Fullerton SDA Church, CA
  May 31st at 11:00 AM and 7:30 PM

How Project Fiji began:
The morning song of an exotic bird stirs me gently from my sleep. The melody drifts through an open window on the back of a warm tropical breeze. It is still dark outside here in the South Pacific as I listen to the drumming sound of an approaching rain squall. The cascading water marches in rapidly from the ocean, hammers across the tin roof, then it tramps up the mountainside leaving a moist freshness in its wake.  Click here to continue...

News Flashes: (Updated May 2, 2008)

Attention all divers.  It's not too late to join Steve's dive trip to Fiji leaving Los Angeles on June 19 and returning June 28.  Click on the link to Steve's dive club for details.  We have a total of 11 people and can accept 5 more.  Steve will make a professional DVD of the trip for each participant.

Attention all Physicians, Dentists, Nurses & Physical Therapist.  The Mission at Natuvu, the new eye and dental clinic is having its grand opening on June 17 and we are looking for volunteers throughout the rest of the year.  You can come out on your own schedule.

Looking for Mission Groups.  After the powerful cyclone that hit on Jan 28 we've had some children in the villages come down with typhoid fever, which prompts the DMF to step up our water filtration projects for four villages.  If your church would like to accept one of the villages as a mission project for July or August please call us.

Hillcrest Academy Mission Trip.  Senior Students from Bakersfield, Ca., spend two weeks in Fiji putting in a water pipe to the first DMF house and doing evening evangelistic programs for the Fijian children.

Cyclone Gene hits Fiji.  A powerful cyclone has struck Fiji knocking out electricity to much of Fiji and contaminating fresh water supplies.  Buca Bay has been particular hard hit.  Buca Village has been evacuated and is flooded with four feet of water.  We are receiving many requests for urgent assistance.  For more information on the situation in Fiji please visit Fiji Live or Fiji Times on the internet.  We are hoping for rapid financial assistance.  If you can help, please label your donation for Buca/Fiji Assistance Fund.  100% of your donation will go directly to help the people in Fiji devastated by this Cyclone.

Steve & Cindy Arrington launch new weekly half-hour Satellite Television program on Loma Linda Broadcasting Network:  High on Adventure is a youth and family program that seeks to inspire youth and young adults to go for their dreams through positive choices, to encourage a commitment for doing good and to cement a sincere working relationship with Jesus Christ.  Cindy's and my goal is to share our path to adventure, challenge and satisfaction in life.  As the name implies this is an adventure quest with whales, dolphins and sharks, but it goes way beyond that as we dive into life quests that lead to a purpose-driven life.  We'll talk about health issues, examine exciting careers, spend time tramping around beneath the ocean and go on mission trips to Fiji.  Fun for the whole family!  If you don't have the satellite connection, then catch it all on the internet at www.llbn.tv airs Monday 10:00am, Wednesday at 10:00pm, Thursday 4:00pm and Friday 4:00am (PST).

Steve's new book exTreme now available: Talk about busy, launching a new television program and releasing a 828 page book.  The illustrated paperback exTreme can be ordered now by visiting www.drugsbite.com and look under cool links or send a check for $24 plus $4 for S & H to Stephen Arrington, PO Box 3234, Paradise, CA 95967.  See the cover layout to left.

The new clinic built by the Tooma Family Foundation is almost complete.  See the picture below.  It is scheduled to open in January 2008 with a full time trauma physician and nurse.  The Mission at Natuvu Creek will offer free dental and eye care along with basic medicine.  The Dream Machine Foundation will provide mobile dental & medical clinics into the rural community.  It is going to be a great partnership between the two foundations.  Note: we have a close working relationship with the Fiji Ministry of Health and they allow us a wide area of coverage.  Some of the villages we have been in have never seen a dentist or physical before.

The DMF has almost completed its first bungalow, which can sleep 20 people.  This has been a real financial challenge for us because the coup of 2006 has pushed-up the prices of construction materials and we had to hire the work out instead of using volunteers.  The take over of the Fijian Government by the military meant we had to cancel our 2007 mission season.  Note: no one was hurt in the coup, which went forward with the permission of the Fijian president.  All remains calm in Fiji and we expect to begin our 2008 mission season as planned.  The only reason we had to cancel for 2007 was because we could not obtain Accident Risk Management Insurance from the GC.  Our relationship with the Government of Fiji is excellent.  The Ministry of Health is particularly interested in our continued support and free service.

Terrific news, the Fiji Mission has decided to renew the lease for Vatuvuon School.  There was a very real threat of the school being closed because of the financial crisis.  The Fiji Mission is receiving less tithing because salaries are severely reduced.  Fiji has been expelled from the British Commonwealth and is receiving no foreign subsidies due to the current government takeover.  The DMF will provide financial assistance as we can though we are still modestly in debt.  We also help to support Nagigi SDA School which now has an enrollment of over 180 students.

New! Steve's Dive Club: Dive trips to Fiji please click here Dive Trips to Fiji.  Spend a week or more SCUBA diving and enjoying incredible Fijian meals at a highly rated resort rated The best Dive Resort in the World by SCUBA DIVING Magazine.  Spaces are limited to 16 so please act quickly.  We are now taking reservations for June 19 - 28 (25% full already).

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