A Busy Month For MAG

October is proving to be a busy month for Missionary Air Group with three teams in and out of Rus Rus, Honduras and with a village outreach and continued flight program development in Guatemala. There are many things to be excited about, many things to pray about, and much to be thankful for.

Today's post will focus on excitement.

We're Excited About God's Work In Honduras

• Carlos (our Director of Pastoral Ministries) is on the ground in Rus Rus with a team of three

  

  Carlos

  men (Matt, Bob, and Craig) taking on several construction/renovation projects at the hospital. Over their two week stay, they will perform electrical work, tile an operating room floor, and take care of some carpentry issues. Carlos will also visit the village of Mahbita to encourage and minister to the Believers there.

• Sean (our President) is in Atlanta as part of a ministry conference facilitating organizational networking in Honduras. Sean departs for Rus Rus tomorrow (Saturday) and will spend two weeks in the village assisting Carlos's team, and working with two other teams scheduled to arrive over next week.  

• Shortly after Sean's arrival, a team of medical personnel is scheduled to visit the hospital for

  

  Sean

  meetings with our missionary staff and hospital staff in order to gain a better understanding of the medical needs and opportunities in Rus Rus. Carlos will interpret for the team.

• A good friend of MAG, Jim, has arranged for a Honduran team from Tegucigalpa to conduct a full site survey of our Rus Rus airbase and hospital facility. They should arrive shortly after the medical team departs. Jim, a US architect, is funding the entire survey effort and providing us with structural, physical, and topographical information critical to our long range planning and the continued development of the grounds, hospital, buildings, and air strip.

Paul

We're Excited About God's Work In Guatemala

• Paul (our Guatemala Program Director) deployed last month. Paul is working closely with Hospital Shalom to lay the groundwork for our new flight program supporting their medical efforts, is becoming acclimated to the county and culture, and is visiting villages to survey for possible air strip locations. Paul will be the pilot/mechanic of our Guatemala airplane once it's deployed.

• After his two weeks in Rus Rus, Sean plans to spend two weeks with Paul for meetings with hospital staff, to assist Paul in developing a base for aviation operations, and to conduct our first village outreach into the Peten region of Guatemala.

We're Excited About Westley & Denise

• Of course of this doesn't happen without Westley and Denise (our missionaries in Rus Rus) and the Cessna 206. Denise provides all the food, care, and hospitality for everyone visiting our base while Westley takes care of everything else including all the flying back and forth, north and south, east and west, required to handle three teams in two weeks and the logistics of operating a challenging ministry in a difficult and remote setting. And without the airplane, our trusty Cessna 206 "one-niner-zulu", none of this would be happening.

Preparing to depart for Rus Rus in 19Z.

Thank you for your gifts and prayers that make this ministry possible!