“Is it worth it? Is having a visitor from home really worth all the time and money spent getting there?”
We were asked this question by our home church a few months ago. Naively, we smiled and nodded and affirmed casually that yes, it would be just fabulous to have someone come and see what we […]
MAF provides food for those fleeing violence
A resurgence of violence in eastern Democratic Republic of […]
Stories about eating bugs have historically topped the charts of classic missionary tales to recite to friends and family back home. When we first moved to the Democratic Republic of Congo a year ago to serve as missionaries with Mission Aviation Fellowship, I knew we were likely to have a few run-ins with bugs in […]
Story by MAF pilot/mechanic Dave Petersen, who serves in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo with his wife, Ashley. It’s not just airplanes that need fixing, as Dave explains here.
If there is one thing that can be said about our life here in Nyankunde, it is that there is always something to be fixed. […]
By Jaclyn Reierson, an MAF missionary in the DRC
“Wanna come flying with me tomorrow?” Brett asked me casually on Friday evening. “Nick and Jocelyn offered to watch the kids, and there’s room for an extra person on both legs of the flight to Vanga.”
I didn’t even have to think about my answer! After living in […]
Missionary Physician Assistant Katherine Niles, with American Baptist International Ministries, serves as the coordinator for the Baptist health/medical work in western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)—14 hospitals and 5 health zones, which carry out Jesus’s ministry of health and healing. Katherine kindly agreed to share her story with us about how God answered her […]