Would you jump out of a perfectly good airplane? I did! After receiving my private and commercial pilots licenses in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, my desire was to serve in mission aviation. I needed more flying experience so I took a flying job with the local skydiving club. Along with that decision came the need [...]
We were awakened by our dogs barking furiously and they kept barking all night! When we woke up the following morning, with bags under our eyes, we investigated the matter. Right behind our garden were the traces of the neighbor’s large sow pig. She had spent the night rooting near our cassava plants and [...]
Pictured is the open pit of the Fort Knox gold mine just 20 miles northeast of Fairbanks Alaska. This mine which operates 24/365 processes 45,000 tons of material per day in its mill. As of the fall of 2019, it had produced 8 million ounces of gold in the 20 years of its service life! [...]
We have waited SO many years for a plane, and we just took one giant step to being closer to that being a reality! A team of aircraft mechanics and pilots came from the States to assemble the plane that has waited so patiently in the container after being shipped over the ocean to our [...]
Taking Inventory. For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. —Philippians 2:13 Ray and I enjoy living in such a gorgeous lake region. Rocks and trees and water abound. The drive through the Okanagan Valley from the AWA Canada office in Kelowna to the [...]
Jennilyn works at our Aborlan bakery. She left behind her daughters of 8 and 2 years with her husband in Mindanao for work that provides a little means for living. Unbeknown to her when she left her distant island, the job at the bakery is practically non-stop 24 hours, 7 days a week. She [...]
The good news last week here was that the Cessna 172 XP repaired/overhauled engine is now back on the airplane. This airplane experienced a rather catastrophic alternator drive failure while on a training flight last August. Although the oil pump drive was sheared the engine did not seize, and the pilot landed at the Palmer, [...]
Grisela is a bright-eyed young girl about nine-years old. She is of the Warao tribe from Venezuela who crossed the river and migrated to Guyana. Monique and I met her during our visit to the Warao Camp in Khan’s Hill. Immediately, she stood out. She followed Monique everywhere she went. She learned the songs taught [...]
Covid-19. It seems that is all you see on the news and hear in conversations. Even here, on our small island, we have been hugely affected. We have been quarantined to our property. This is a problem to get food. Usually, on Sundays, the farmers and fishermen come in from all over to sell their [...]
The promise of restoration,“I will restore you to health and heal your wounds, declares the Lord,” Jeremiah 30:17, is a repeated theme throughout the Bible. It offers hope when all else seems to contradict it. All the stress and pain that Covid-19, social distancing and isolation has inflicted on the world, make these promises that [...]
