Jennifer Perry Wolf— “Jenn” —has been with Mission Aviation Fellowship since 2010, serving as a writer and resource coordinator in the Ministry Advancement department. She unearths stories from the field, writes for the ministry’s various publications—FlightWatch, Boarding Pass, and the web—and oversees the MAF blog contributors.
Jenn has been known to tweet as @whatignitesus and posts on Instagram as @thesparkthatignites.us. Feel free to follow her. And check out her new personal podcast at www.thesparkthatignites.us and her blog at www.callwhenyougetthere.com.
When Eric Fagerland started thinking about what he would do when he retired from the Air Force, his thoughts did not wander to a life of cruising, or settling down near Hole 18 somewhere along the Florida panhandle. Instead, he imagined flying off into a different wild blue yonder … with Mission Aviation Fellowship.
A fan […]
A small group of teachers are seated single file onboard an MAF KODIAK airplane. They peer through the windows down to the tiny village where they will be launching a new curriculum to kids ages five to nine—the ones who aren’t served by a primary school because they live too far off the beaten path […]
How one boy brought a community together to reach isolated people
A teacher inspired her class to imagine what they could do to impact their world. A 15-year-old student dreamed big, and his family wholeheartedly supported that dream. And the end result was a unique two-day event to raise funds for an MAF Kodiak—a “tool” that […]
MAF partners with missionaries to reach a small tribe that has been overlooked
Missionary Andrew Claussen lay on the floor of a village hut for the third day in a row, hallucinating. The buzz of his table saw had stopped, and his family’s unfinished house frame was left unattended—all work now at a standstill.
Bamboo […]
In talking with one of our aviation maintenance instructors here at MAF headquarters, I discovered that some tips could be applied to life as well. Here are four things I’ve learned about life via plane maintenance.
#1 The Tootsie Roll Theory. Talk to the guys in the maintenance or safety divisions here at MAF headquarters […]
As dusk approached in Yolo Sud, a suburb of Kinshasa in western Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cecile*, a “woman of the night” wandered the streets, aimlessly. She couldn’t help but notice a large crowd forming and went to investigate. People were gathering in a field where a large, white screen was set up.
Cecile was […]