I button up the brown and pink flowered shirt on my daughter. I work fast before she squirms away to do busy toddler things. Wow. She looks just like Katie—my friend’s daughter, who wore this shirt a couple years ago, back when she was my daughter’s age.
My son, now 3, spent his first couple of […]
I’m the new girl again. After 10 years of living off the coast of Kalimantan, we have moved to the other side of Indonesia, to the province of Papua.
There is a steep learning curve––new stores to learn, new way of driving (the traffic lights go from red to yellow to green . . . still […]
I’m the type of person who makes resolutions…you know, a (usually unattainable) list of all the things I want to accomplish, bad habits I want to break, good habits I intend to start. I recently dragged out my list from last year and went down the annual shame spiral as I realized how many lofty […]
Life overseas during the holiday season isn’t easy. We miss family and snow and eggnog and those little Christmas nougat candies and a million other small traditions that, for years, made Christmas … Christmas. As I sip a cold beverage to ease my thirst and seek some reprieve from the heat and humidity of Indonesia, […]
Here are some of our favorite quotes of the past year, received from the people we serve or gathered from interviews.
We’re the smallest of the villages in the area, and without MAF, no one else would care for us. As a servant of God ministering here, it would probably be impossible to be here without […]
Medevac flight for stroke patient, Kalimantan. Photo by Tripp Flythe.
Food delivery with the Kodiak, Kalimantan. Photo by Dave Forney.
Pilot Nathan Fagerlie delivers supplies and teachers for first-ever school in Pogamba village, Papua. Photo by Steve Richards.
Soccer teams lined up during Indonesia’s Independence Day celebration as MAF Caravan […]