Karen and I had the privilege of being part of the solution to a recent, five month old, "How do we get this hand-carried to Congo, Africa?" question.
No, we didn't have the chance to hand-carry the delicate aircraft instrument to the Congo ourselves, but we did have the opportunity to hand-carry it to the volunteer who IS hand-carrying it to the Congo!
We were contacted by missionary friends of ours because of our proximity to Charlotte, NC (90 minutes SW of here). They were in central PA and had spent the last five months working to have this component delicately "land" at their field facility in Congo, Africa. They had a volunteer in Charlotte who was leaving for Congo and they wondered if we could work out some way to get it to him. The aircraft instrument was too valuable (nearly irreplaceable if damaged) to send via UPS, USPS, and/or Fed-Ex.
It turned out I was actually in eastern PA for a mobilization conference when they called and they were headed right by my location on their way into New Jersey for a missions conference. It couldn't have worked out better. They dropped the instrument by the conference on Thursday, I carried it back to Graham on Friday, and then Karen and I drove it down to the Charlotte area Sunday and delivered it to the volunteer heading to Congo. Totally cool. Thanks for being part of changing lives and eternities in Congo, Africa by being part of our ministry in North Carolina!
Here I am delivering the part from Pennsylvania, to the volunteer in North Carolina, who'll deliver the part to a mission aviation program in Congo, Africa.
Prayer for This Week's MAG Staff Meeting & Aviation Summit, June 4-6
This is an exciting week for Missionary Air Group as Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday our administrative, operational, and aviation personnel will gather in Burlington for three days of reports, meetings, and fellowship.
Our Program Directors from Honduras (Wes) and Guatemala (Paul) are already on their way up. Our Director of Aviation Maintenance (Scott) is coming down from Ohio. Of course Sean, Karen, and I are already here, and our Director of Pastoral Ministries (Carlos) will join us by video conference as he will have just returned to New Hampshire late Tuesday night after nearly a month in Rus Rus, Honduras.
On Wednesday our meetings will center around organizational topics. Thursday and Friday our aviation staff will focus their efforts on updating our Aviation Operations Manual.
We would greatly appreciate your prayers as we meet.
A Quick Caption From Tanner
"Thanks for taking such good care of our humans!"
1 comment:
This is terrific! MAG is becoming a world wide mission!! And you have a volunteer in California. Proud to be a part of this mission. Tanner dose a wonderful job on the editorial staff as well! Love Dad
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