It was Sunday at the Fix home in Kentucky. I had been sharpening chainsaws for tree work I was going to do the next day. I had cut my finger pretty deep while sharpening and was considering how difficult it would be to work the next day with this injury.
As I was thinking about my problem, I got a phone call from Adventist World Aviation’s (AWA) president, Ric Swaningson. He said he had an Angel Flight
for me to do if I was able to get away from my work for a few days. An Angel Flight is defined by Wikipedia as “the name used by a number of groups whose members provide free air transportation for passengers in need of medical treatment far from home and perform other missions of community service.”
In this instance, however, there was not a passenger in need of medical attention. There was a middle aged woman who needed a flight to…