Food is very scarce on the base, and prayer requests for a divine provision of food have been e-mailed out of the region. Prayer has been the key to the students' protection so far. Conditions on the base are very difficult. Besides the food shortage, numbers of people are in need of medical attention. But the Bible school students were recently moved from an open-roofed building to an enclosed Kindergarten building.
Students remain on the base awaiting possible evacuation by ship.
Their only hope is to find friends with a stockpile of rice or noodles and personally buy from them. The source described the students' outlook as positive. They really feel the whole world is praying for them. The current church facilities were constructed under the leadership of the Rev. Kenneth McGee from 1973-1978, Bates reports. Bates oversaw a complete remodeling in 1997.