Recently I said goodbye to six friends who came for a week-long visit—two of them being some of my closest and most cherished friends. To say it was bittersweet is putting it mildly.
Lesotho, Africa
HOME. It is a word filled with deep emotion, smells, sounds, and fraught with meaning. Lately I have come to […]
by Tanya Boyd, wife of MAF President John Boyd
This post is part of a series about the role that culture plays in the missionary experience.
A produce market in Papua, Indonesia.
I couldn’t find the courgettes.
It was 1992. John and I had just moved from South Africa to the U.S. to participate in […]
One of my favorite activities here in Nampula is teaching a martial arts class at a local Christian orphanage. I had already been teaching classes to the expat community when one of the leaders of the orphanage asked me if I would consider teaching there as well. Before the first class, I was a little […]
Joy hanging laundry at her current mission assignment in Indonesia
During my teens I went on several mission trips. Each prepared me in some way for living overseas, but there are definitely some differences between those short trips and the life I now lead. For example:
I don’t travel much. Traveling is an innate part […]
Tim, Liz, Jacob, and Benjamin Schandorff serving with MAF in Haiti.
I adore the holiday season in the United States. In October, I love drinking hot cider and taking the kids trick-or-treating. In November, I look forward to eating my sister’s sausage and cornbread dressing and my mother-in-law’s pie on Thanksgiving Day. In December, […]
The call I received the other week was not unusual. It was a woman strongly opposed to abortion who wanted to know what stand MAF was taking on the issue—what this ministry was doing to halt abortion in the U.S.
Mission Aviation Fellowship frequently receives inquiries about our views and actions on various issues. Not just […]