By Kees Janse
His name is very applicable: Selamat. Which is an Indonesian word used as a greeting, but it also means “saved” or “rescued.” That indeed has happened in his life.
On Thursday, October 12, 2014 he was with his mother in the family’s hut in a small village in the highlands of Papua. That day […]
“A man’s discretion makes him slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook a transgression.” —Proverbs 19:11
MAF pilot Nathan Fagerlie got the request for a medevac flight over the radio while he was en route to a remote airstrip in Papua, Indonesia. A young boy had fallen from a tree and was impaled […]
I made up this rule when I was a kid: If I’m afraid of something, I must try it.
So, that’s how I found myself strapped onto a wakeboard on a Borneo river.
As a required safety feature of our floatplane water base, MAF owns a speed boat, which is also a way our team of Americans […]
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! […]
MAF is providing flights for aid workers after a mudslide buried homes and extensively damaged villages in the Kutacane region of Indonesia, on the island of Sumatra. Photo Courtesy of Team Aceh Tenggara.
KUTACANE, Indonesia — A massive mudslide occurred on Wednesday, April 12, at 6:00 a.m. in the district of Kutacane on the […]