Nick Frey is an MAF-Canada pilot on loan to our West DRC program in Kinshasa, where he serves as Program Manager. He and his wife, Jocelyn, joined the WDRC team in 2011. You can follow their adventures (and see Jocelyn’s beautiful photos) at their blog http://nickandjocelyn.blogspot.com/.
Missionaries return to a Congolese village to build on the legacy of their grandparents—and share the love of Christ.
The greeting at Ipope, western DR Congo.
The singing began even before our Cessna Caravan shut down. A few hundred people had gathered in the middle of nowhere on a small dirt and grass strip to […]
We transport a fair amount of bodies in Congo. I would have said passengers, but after someone passes on from this life we call them a body and don’t count their number on the flight manifest.
It occurred to me today, as we transported this body in a casket, with many other items for the funeral […]
Praying before a flight to Kikwit, west DRC, with the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC).
The beauty of serving with MAF is the ability to go anywhere. You’re probably thinking, “Well, yes, that’s why you have small airplanes,” but that’s not exactly what I mean.
As pilots of MAF aircraft in a developing country we gain […]
A team from France is assisting a remote Congolese village with its water system. I had the opportunity to learn more about the project when I picked them up after they spent one week assessing the needs.
Nick Frey with the team that worked on the installation
The current system is a bit dated and […]
A couple of potential future pilots visited our hanger this week. They were eager to learn about airplanes and pilots. The students were from an international school called TASOK (The American School of Kinshasa), located here in DR Congo. MAF was happy to host the group, and I had the privilege of guiding them through […]
Living in Kinshasa, DRC (a city of about 10,000,000 people) we can sometimes forget that MAF’s vision is for isolated people. There are always people crowding the streets, jamming the market places, and flooding entire areas that were once wide open. It was one of the biggest shocks when we arrived, to be overwhelmed by […]