Category Archives: Field Stories

The Plane Purpose

| March 19, 2013

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MAF Pilot Dave Ringenberg recently carried an unusual cargo—2,221 pounds of tile for the floor of the church in the village of Holuwan in Papua, Indonesia. The airstrip is situated about 18 minutes south […]

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Confusion and Chaos

| March 6, 2013

God uses anything and everything to break down walls to the Gospel. Nothing is wasted and nothing is trivial with God. All that the Lord does is purposeful and intentional––even a house fire.

Recently, we were awoken to find our kitchen on fire! A bright orange glow illuminated through the thick smoke-filled midnight air. The […]

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What Are Your Ministry Tools?

| January 23, 2013

Typically, the husband’s role in the ministry of MAF is obvious, but the wife’s role is more vague. My husband uses tools and airplane parts every day in his ministry with MAF. My ministry tools include things like spatulas and potato peelers. People often ask me what my ministry is here or […]

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WDRC Appreciation Dinner

| January 11, 2013

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 […]

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Flight Training Adventures – Part 2

| November 29, 2012

Before continuing with their flight training, Sean and Isaac shared lunch with some of the pastors they serve at Naan. This is the second post in a series. You can read the first one here.

When we arrived at our host’s floating house, we opened up buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pepsi that I had […]

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Technical Tools To Equip Bible Translators

| November 7, 2012

Sign outside the Bunia Bible translation office.

Here in Congo, linguists serving with SIL International (a field partner of Wycliffe Bible Translators) are working with local churches to promote Bible translation, literacy, Scripture use, and local language development. However, these Western missionaries aren’t the ones doing the actual translation work. Rather, they are training and facilitating […]

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