How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!”
–Psalm 119:103
One day, while leaving the grocery store, I spied a lady outside who was selling some very nice limes. She told me the pile of limes would be 20,000 rupiah (about $1.50 US). I gave her a 10, a 5, two […]
Oh, the power of a package!
Just when I feel that all have forgotten us in this isolated corner of the world, and that I may as well be doing a stint on the International Space Station for how far away I feel, a box arrives.
Someone (usually my parents) remembered us! Someone went shopping for us! […]
Pebbles scratched the paint. Bigger rocks just turned over in the propeller blast.
But golf- to baseball-sized stones pounded the tail of my airplane. Couldn’t be helped on the gravel strip. Still had to takeoff.
Two boys next to a Cessna 206 at a typical grass airstrip in Ecuador. Photo by Mark and Kelly Hewes.
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Thank you! Because of you lives were changed! In 2016, MAF pilots made 22,495 flights transporting 73,000 passengers and 7.7 million pounds of cargo to over 400 airstrips. MAF technicians operated and maintained 157 VSAT systems, distributed more than 2,100 digital biblical resources, and provided secure email/VPN service to 1,506 clients in 91 countries. Together […]
I recently had the opportunity to train with MAF’s Disaster Response team in order to be prepared when such events arise. There is very little time for decision makers to determine if MAF is equipped to meet the specific needs of a particular disaster response. Once the decision has been made to go, speed is […]
Weekend outings are always an adventure in Papua. Our friends had invited us to a pool, but it was closed Saturday morning. I wasn’t excited about the backup plan: hiking to a new waterfall. Here, that could mean anything from a jungle trek to a mountainous climb, and I was not up for either. My […]