The Scheduled Tour
Within minutes of finishing our staff meeting, the bus from the Fairfield Christian Academy pulled into our parking lot. The seventeen teenagers and six adults on board had just completed four days of volunteer service at a local camp/residential facility for the disabled. Over the years it has become a tradition for the FCA work teams to stop in at MMS on their way back to Fairfield.
Dwight Jarboe, our President and CEO, took one half of the group and started their tour in the
hangar. I took the other half and started their tour upstairs in the administrative area. We finished upstairs and rotated through the hangars as Dwight finished the hangars and rotated into the administrative area. A tour like this normally takes about an hour. They were a good group of kids and asked good questions.The photo is of me leading my group through the main hangar and answering questions about the Cessna 206 from Chad. I'm the guy nearest the airplane.
The Unscheduled Tour
Within minutes of the bus pulling out, Karen pulled in with a long-time friend and former co-worker of hers, Mim Lehman, from Lancaster, PA. Mim was out visiting with her daughter and brought her daughter, Carol, and Carol brought her daughter, Laura (age 3) to see MMS. Carol and Laura live on a farm in Newark, OH, which is about 40 minutes east of Coshocton.
It was fun to see Mim again and to meet Carol and Laura for the first time. It's always exciting to lead people through our hangars, to share the stories about the airplanes, to share the stories about the people working on them, and to help them catch the vision of mission aviation and the role MMS plays within it.
Here's Karen, Mim, and Carol. Unfortunately Laura had been bitten by the Shy Bug and was
unavailable for the photo shoot.Someday we hope to see you here for a tour, too. Scheduled or unannounced, it doesn't matter. We'll just be blessed to see you.
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