Leaving suburbs to become missionaries: Voorheesville family plans to work at medical mission in remote section of Tanzania.

Byline: Rick Clemenson

Dec. 15--VOORHEESVILLE -- Mark Guilzon says he feels the calling to move his family from their suburban lifestyle to the Tanzanian bush.

The six-member Guilzon family will be the first white missionaries to a tiny Rukwa Valley village where the natives dress in traditional tribal cloaks and believe in the powers of witch doctors, their primary care physicians. "I could stay right here and live a comfortable life, but I feel we should go there and give people who have no hope some mercy," said Mark Guilzon, 38, a physician's assistant at Ellis Hospital. He will be joined by his wife Jodi, 33, and their children Katlynn, Benjamin, …