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Three Little Airstrips

Three Little Airstrips

This post is for all the pilots and dreamers who enjoy this kind of stuff. I filmed some landings and takeoffs at three of our more interesting airstrips. We are getting into rainy season now and I am learning that these airstrips are completely different when wet. It’s not only the slippery surface that’s a […]
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“Their Mischievous Pilot”

“Their Mischievous Pilot”

Yesterday I learned that I am known in the Banwaon tribe as the “Mischievous One.” Dumbfounded, I asked, “how did they come up with that?” Of course what I was wondering was, “how did they know, I can’t even speak their language?!” I had forgotten all about a little something that happened a few months […]
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Exodus, Snakes, Generators and Muddy Airstrips

Exodus, Snakes, Generators and Muddy Airstrips

On November 10th at 4pm our airplane’s paperwork was approved in Manila and we had a flying flight program again! At 4:45pm the same afternoon in Mindanao, I did my first practice flight in order to get current again after over two months of not flying. It has been 13 days since that time and […]
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How to Replace a Propeller in the Jungle

How to Replace a Propeller in the Jungle

We have been without an airplane since August and it has had a drastic affect on everyone in our region. Every tribal team that we serve with the airplane is currently in a bind waiting to see when the airplane will be able to fly again. They all had plans for translation checks, deadlines, furloughs, […]
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Much Ado About a Stone

Much Ado About a Stone

After Tukid returned to his home in the mountains after a very traumatic kidney stone passing, he has been a key player in encouraging the Manubo church. The missionaries to the Manubo recently wrote to us: “You guys have no idea the impact of Tukid’s trip to hospital and your 4×4 being available on that […]
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One Step Closer to Flight

One Step Closer to Flight

Last weekend Brian drove with a truck full of tools and construction supplies to the tribe where our airplane is still tied down and guarded. It has sat in the jungle for over a month. He arrived just as it was getting dark and hiked down to the village in the rain on a slippery […]
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Leatherman Kidney Stone Removal Tool

Leatherman Kidney Stone Removal Tool

There I was in McDonald’s eating an early breakfast with Trevor, one of the NTM missionaries we serve here in the Philippines. I met up with Trevor in a Northern town and we spent the night in a hotel. We wanted to get an early start on the drive to his tribe because the road […]
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Survival Mode

Survival Mode

It doesn’t take long to notice that we’ve been silent for about three months. We apologize. This would have been a very fun and interesting time to be sharing all the exciting things going on in our ministry, but after Dylan came home from the hospital we entered “survival mode.” On top of our normal, […]
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Landcruising

Landcruising

After our incident and subsequent bent propeller, we had a major sprint to try and do with our truck what we normally do with the airplane. The missionaries we fly for depend on the airplane for all their groceries, ministry supplies, transportation, and emergency needs. When it was clear that the airplane would be grounded […]
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A Little Incident

A Little Incident

We have been working at full throttle the last few months in the flight program on Mindanao. We have been really excited to see first hand the work the Lord is doing among tribal people here in all our locations and how their love for the Lord compels them to reach out to neighboring tribes. […]
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