When we came to MAF, I, the professional pilot, joined a cutting edge team. Missionaries needed me to reach their ministry sites. The national church needed me in support of their pastoral work. Community Development groups needed me to move engineers. Doctors needed me to deliver them to remote villages. Villagers needed me to take […]
The woman bounced down the path, her arms pumping strong on her afternoon jog. She looked so fit. So light. So free.
I did my own bouncing as my 2-week-old baby fussed in the Baby Bjorn strapped to my chest. My 4-year-old son was taking his turn in the stroller. My 2-year-old walked beside me, holding […]
Each year as potential MAF missionaries go through the candidate program, we find that the reasons they want to join MAF are as diverse as the backgrounds of the people themselves. Here are a few reasons MAF staff members gave as to why they chose to pursue missions with us:
Conrad & Heidi Hertzler (Mozambique) chose […]
Look up and you’ll see them, perched five to twenty-five meters above the jungle floor: the homes of the Korowai people of eastern Papua, Indonesia. Around 4,000 Korowai live in the trees, descending to gather food and hunt, but spending much of their lives above the jungle floor. They’ve built their homes up high out […]
After a successful launch of our blog in March of 2011, we’ve been able to share more our ministry with you. Here’s a look back at our most popular blog posts of the year.
1. The blog post with the most views and shares contains a humorous collection of tips from our pilots who often carry […]
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 […]