Chris Burgess is the editorial and content manager in the Ministry Advancement department at MAF. Chris and his family relocated to Idaho from Colorado Springs where he was the editorial director for Lux Creative, a marketing agency that served clients such as Compassion International, LifeWay Christian Resources, and the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
MAF Staff Share Perspectives About Ministry Through the Years
David Francis works on an MAF airplane. Photo by MAF staff.
DAVID FRANCIS – DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO – With MAF since 2004
An extra headset sat in the passenger seat of MAF pilot David Francis’ airplane. During long flights across the vast Democratic Republic of […]
Elated gasps and cries of joy simultaneously resounded in both a meeting room in Shell Mera, Ecuador, and the MAF chapel in Nampa, Idaho. MAF President John Boyd had just shared, via a video conference call, that a KODIAK had been funded by generous supporters and would soon make its way to Alas de Socorro […]
A remote village wants to open an MAF airstrip. How exactly does this happen in in the middle of dense jungles, rugged mountains, or deserts?
Members of the Wano tribe working on the airstrip at Mokndoma, Papua. Photo by Tim Ingles.
A request is made by either the villagers themselves, or by another mission organization […]
In 1964 violent uprisings gripped the country that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Missionaries found themselves in increasing danger and needed to escape before the fighting claimed their lives. Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) played a key role in these evacuations. While airplanes were obviously integral, according to decades-old reports and testimonies, another […]
How Basketball, Haiti Bible Mission, and MAF are changing lives in Jeremie, Haiti
When the Los Angeles Lakers wrapped up their 2009 draft roster, one name was not on the list—Dwayne Jackson. After a summer practicing with the NBA champions, the college star had not made the cut. This painful moment would prove to be […]
Idaho Church Helps MAF Return to Nyankunde
In 2002, as violence and civil wars ravaged the MAF base at Nyankunde in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), MAF staff and many of the Western missionaries were forced to evacuate—many never returned.
The first MAF family returned to Nyankunde in 2013. The process of getting them there […]