Pictures of Chuuk

Chuuk Team Returning

Pictures! How we love pictures. ”A picture is worth a thousand words.” For me, I need the thousand words plus lots and lots of pictures to illustrate the kinds of experiences that come out of Canvasback Missions to Micronesia. Every trip is different, and every island is different, but always with many, many people in need.

I will have the privilege of going through the hundreds of pictures recently taken in Chuuk, part of the Federated States of Micronesia, where Canvasback took an ENT team in May. The images coming back make your heart ache for the sick ones found there. The success stories were well documented.

When I was younger, I would look at any island picture and immediately would wish to be there. Usually it was images of a white sail boat on blue water or inviting white sandy beaches. I wanted to see what was on the outside of the borders of the pictures. I’m reminded of another expression very often used by people trying to describe things without pictures, You probably have heard this too: “You had to be there”. As the stories from Chuck are published on this web site with lots pictures, I can imagine the medical personnel saying “You just had to be there!”