As 2012 draws to a close, we’re looking back at some key ministry highlights. Here’s a collection of stories pulled from videos, the blog, and a radio broadcast.
• In March, the MAF team in Haiti celebrated 25 years of service, and we had a special Haiti campaign, Catalyst for Change.
• MAF’s videographer visited our Africa […]
One story this year that generated a great deal of interest was that involving a 12-year-old Haitian boy, Dieuphete Celime.
In the fall of 2011, he suffered severe burns from a gas fire during a cooking accident but was left to let his wounds heal on their own in a poorly equipped hospital. Three months after […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from a post on the blog of MAF pilot Jon Cadd, who is serving in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this post, he shares about MAF’s process for vetting a potential airstrip.
The airstrip was still in the process of being rebuilt by the UN and as I […]
Last month MAF pilot Sean Cannon (Palangkaraya base – Kalimantan, Indonesia) was busy training pilot Isaac Rogers who had just transferred from Tarakan. This is the first of two posts about Sean and Isaac’s adventures in training.
After Isaac completed his first solo flight, we still needed to work at some of our more challenging places […]
I had just hit snooze on my alarm when my phone rang. “I need an extra flight in the Kodiak to Malinau. My mother died last night,” Nelson told me. Pak Nelson is one of our karyawan, or Indonesian staff, who has worked in our hangar for quite a long time. He is the kind […]
As Haiti braced for another natural disaster this past weekend, MAF was prepared to help those in need after making some major preparations of its own, including moving airplanes out of the storm’s path. Fortunately, Isaac was only a tropical storm when it made landfall in Haiti and did not wreak the havoc it could […]