Greetings from the Wilkerson family! We would like to share some thoughts from our AWA Guyana Project. When Bruce and I first accepted the call to mission work with AWA, after the initial joy of fulfilling my childhood dream of being a missionary, it dawned on me—what will I do? I am not a [...]
Dear Family and Friends, We can hardly believe January 2019 has ended. It was a busy month! First, the annual inspections on our two Cessna aircraft began on January 15. Nik Nagy, who is AWA’s Director of Maintenance, and Tom Meighan, who is AWA’s Volunteer A&P, traveled to Mabaruma, Guyana for 10 days to [...]
Dear Family and Friends, We write this newsletter to you on Christmas Day, 2018, a day we could relax and smell the roses. December has been a busy month with several activities at our AWA Learning Center (Worship Center). First, we want to thank all of you that contributed to this year’s projects. We [...]
Dear Family and Friends, Thank you to all of you who have prayed for Bruce’s instrument rating completion. Although Bruce completed all instrument rating requirements, his educational benefits have been depleted. A blessing occurred however, when a local Tullahoma aviator was in the process of moving to Southern Kentucky and could not initially take his [...]
The result of over 10 years of effort and patience... exciting! It's amazing to see the progress made on the Guyana Hangar! A huge thank you to the volunteers, workers and supporters who are making the completion of the Hangar a reality! More pictures to come... Updated: June 2018 Visit [...]
Our new Cessna 182 got approved just over a month ago to perform in-country flights, but already the plane has been used on a number of missions, and has been to all the runways in Region 1. This past weekend HS flew its first med-evac flight. Little did we know the next few days were [...]
Guyana Dental Work AWA Guyana has had a very busy couple of weeks. We had a dental team come down from the US & Canada and they were able to provide dental care to over 200 men, women & children! What a great way to serve the Lord and our brothers and sisters [...]
We peered out the dusty windshield and down the steep and bumpy road. We could see about five or six little children all dressed up in their best, jumping up and down, excitedly shouting, “Deh commin! Deh Commin’!” (translated, “They’re coming!”). Then they ran to tell their brothers and sisters that the ride to church [...]
