What’s it like to move across town in Indonesia?
It’s 17 pickup truck and car loads of our stuff, carted across town to our new house. For two of those loads I was at the steering wheel of the truck, nervous and driving like a granny to avoid potholes (which in this country is […]
The sunrise was golden. The mountains were beautiful. The plane was cutting smoothly through the crisp air. That’s when my friend, sitting next to me on the small plane, handed me his bag and reached for a sick sack. We were pretty high up, around 8,000 feet, and the small planes MAF flies in Papua […]
Here’s a look back at 2013 through the lens—with images captured by MAF pilots around the world.
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This month’s FlightWatch highlights the ministry of Jack and Corky Hook, longtime missionaries to Kiwi, Papua, Indonesia. (If you’re not on our mailing list to receive this publication, you can read the story here, or sign up for future issues to be delivered to your home). Watch the video below to see the enthusiastic greeting […]
I think everyone would agree that certain sacrifices come with being a missionary. The salary isn’t great, friends and family are often thousands of miles away, and the nearest Starbucks requires at least two flights and several hundred dollars to reach. Ask any missionary and we could go on for hours about how hard our […]
Last week I transported a missionary. That’s what MAF’s all about, right? Only I’m not a pilot, and I wasn’t flying a plane. I was just being who I am, an MAF wife, driving home from my part-time teaching gig at my kids’ school, when I saw a spry elderly lady hauling two bulging shopping […]