Category Archives: Country

Update from Bunia, East DRC

The latest update from the Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) team working in the northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) shows an area still beset with uncertainty as well as sporadic violence in the outlying areas. MAF program manager Jon Cadd reports that most NGOs that evacuated in November have now returned. 

In […]

The Master Weaver

Food distribution at the MAF hangar on February 22, 2010, for airport personnel & volunteers.

I’m so grateful for a God who loves to mold, shape, and especially create. Into all of our lives, there are threads woven by our Master Designer. Some are bright threads, words of encouragement that nurture our spiritual growth. […]

WDRC Appreciation Dinner

Last month, fellow MAF wife Lisa Lind and I invited all of our guards and their families to an appreciation dinner at my house. As we began to plan for the event, we counted up all the guards, the wives and the children, and realized there would be about 50 people coming for dinner!

I’ll have […]

On the Tracks of Joy and Suffering

This week marks one year that our family has lived in Papua, serving at the MAF base in Sentani … 365 days, every single one of them spent in this far-flung province of Indonesia.

I look back on the year, and it’s easy to focus on the struggles. The bout of malaria, the terrifying flash flood […]

While Shepherds Keep Their Watch

The heartbeat of MAF Lesotho is certainly assisting our fellow missionaries who live up in the mountains and touch the isolated, forgotten Basotho. Merrill and Bekah are two such missionary women working with Africa Inland Mission (AIM). They made the bold decision to move from their village home of many years to another, more isolated […]