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Delivering Rice and Christmas Cheer

The “Beras Natal” (Beras = Rice, Natal = Christmas) flights are something that is unique to Papua. Churches and villages purchase literally tons of rice for their Christmas celebrations and the MAF facility in Wamena has stacks and stacks of rice waiting to go out to villages. As a pilot, sometimes it seems tedious to fly and unload all of this rice. But, when I imagine the festivities that it will contribute to surrounding the celebrations of our Lord’s birth, it becomes a joy. Read more here…

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MicroSD Cards for Christmas – Arnhem Land, 2013

Just imagine the possibilities when you combine mobile technology and the ability to reach remote locations in a MAF plane. That’s what Peter from MAF Technology Services Arnhem Land did.

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Blessings Beyond Belief

In September this year, the Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) headquarters in Mt. Hagen, Papua New Guinea received an interesting request. The Yamka community, greater tribal clan(s) living around the area of the airport (Kagamuga), wanted to have a celebration honoring MAF for its more than 65 years of service and commitment to rural communities of PNG.

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Fleeing for her Life

After a short 15 minute flight, we arrived at A* and met the missionaries there. One of the missionaries quickly pulled Jason aside and told him that, as well as our booked load, they wanted us to put a young woman, Susan*, on the aircraft and take her to Goroka. She had been abused and brutally beaten by her husband over several days and he was intending to kill her. Susan had managed to escape and had found refuge at the mission station. The missionaries had hidden the woman in their house, but now they needed to move her and had arranged a safe house for her in Goroka.

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Visiting Gäwa

In East Arnhem Land, MAF is partnering with Gäwa Christian School to bring a full education to the remote homelands.

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The Early Days of MAF Australia – as written by an eye witness

MAF Australia recently received a beautiful letter off one of our long time supporters, 96 year old Barry S. Barry’s family have been involved with MAF Australia since the very beginning and below he relays some wonderful memories of those pioneer days.

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An Unexpected Late Afternoon Mission in Timor-Leste

A training flight for a new pilot in Timor-Leste recently took a dramatic turn when Chief Pilot Marcus Grey and training pilot Timon Kundig attended a late afternoon emergency medevac.

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A Day in the Life of Pilot Jason Job – Timor Leste

What does a day in the life of one of our pilots on the field really look like? Read all about it here as Pilot Jason Job in Timor Leste gives us a glimpse into his everyday.

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MAF flies the Agape School of the Deaf in Timor-Leste

“We needed to get to Atauro on Tuesday but there was no ferry and strong waves. So, the MAF plane brought us there and in just fifteen minutes we arrived and we were able to cover a lot of activities.” – Wennie Fernandez, Founder of the ‘Agape School for the Deaf’ in Dili.

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Baka Bible Dedication with SIL in Maridi, South Sudan

The history of the Baka Bible translation project has been filled with numerous struggles and victories. So many people, both missionaries and Baka men and women, have worked tirelessly on the translation efforts. Despite the many interruptions and setbacks over the past thirty plus years, the Baka New Testament and Genesis was printed at the end of 2016 and a Bible Dedication service was planned for March 2017 in Maridi by SIL International. SIL South Sudan director Jackie Marshall-Ringer shares “We are using MAF more and more these days as road travel is now generally quite insecure in South Sudan. We really appreciate MAF’s servant heartedness with the Baka dedication with their helpfulness in arranging charters for our people to get to Maridi and also for the free transportation of the Baka New Testaments from Juba to Maridi which is a special gift to the Baka community and church.”

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A Typical Day in Telefomin, PNG

Join the Twin Otter P2-MFU, piloted by Brad Venter and Richie Axon, flying out of Telefomin, Papua New Guinea. Brad, who also is MAF PNG’s Crew Training Manager, shares some snapshots from a typical day flying out of Telefomin. According to Brad, this was “basically a pretty average/normal day!“

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VH-WMC – A new training experience for pilots in Mareeba

Since its avionics upgrade (with the installation of an Aspen EFD-1000 Primary Flight Display) which was completed in March 2017, the Cessna 172, VH-WMC, is the only training aircraft in Mareeba equipped with touch screen GPS and autopilot; preparing pilots for higher level operations.

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VIPs and Medevacs (Timor Leste)

For pilots in Timor-Leste their passengers are often medevac patients. However, on this particular day, passengers also included a number of VIPs.

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Reaching the Light – The Story of a Special Needs Boy and His Sister

This is a story about a 13-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, his older sister who quit medical school to help him, and the team at Reaching the Light who taught him how to stand, walk, talk, read, and take care of himself. In the process he became a Christian. Then God threw in one more unexpected twist of love.

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IT Fits, IT Works, It’s IT (Arnhem Land)

MAF is well known for flying because that is the bread and butter of the organisation. However behind the scenes is a long list of skilled people who have made sacrifices to see the vision of MAF fulfilled. These people are pilots, engineers, managers, HR personnel, office staff, builders, IT support personnel and much more. Each person in these roles has a very important place in the bigger picture and vision of MAF. Without IT (Information Technology) support staff, MAF’s operations would come to a standstill because so much these days is build on a fully functioning and reliable IT system.

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Arnhem Land Kids love sports!

MAF recently had the privilege of assisting Arnhem Sports to fly in many students from around the region to participate in the big Sports Carnival.

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Conquering Kokoda in Support of MAF

What do you get when you mix a small group of MAF supporters and the infamous Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea? Answer: A group of muddy, sweaty, tired, yet enthusiastic trekkers who raised around $60000 to assist the ministry of MAF.

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Anytime, anywhere, outreach!

Through ongoing relationships and invitations from the Yolŋu people themselves, the ministry of Homeland Outreach continues to have an important place in the wider vision of MAF in Arnhem Land.

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PNG Pastors Cross the “Tech Gap”

MAF Technology Services (CRMF) run IT training courses to equip pastors and church workers in PNG with basic computing skills to help them spread the Gospel.

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Connecting Rural Health Services in PNG

Deo Mondo works for MAF’s Learning Technology Services (in PNG known as CRMF), connecting remote locations and health services to each other via radio.

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