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Brian is Returning to the Philippines

Brian is Returning to the Philippines

Brian is preparing to return to the Philippines, alone. In September we will fill in for our pilot, Josh, and his wife, Candy, who are returning to the States until January. This is a fairly complicated task to coordinate with the rest of our leadership responsibilities. The best way we could come up with to make it work is for Brian to take a 25-day trip back to the Philippines
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Typhoon Yolanda Update

Typhoon Yolanda Update

It has been an overwhelming week and a half in so many ways – the biggest has been seeing God’s faithfulness and love for us and for the Filipino people. We have seen Him provide over and over again and what we thought would be a few days of helping where we can, has turned […]
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Typhoon Haiyan

Typhoon Haiyan

We have not done a very good job at sending out updates on our situation here in the Philippines and for that we apologize. Ever since typhoon Haiyan reduced the middle of the Philippines to rubble we’ve been swamped trying to coordinate help for our own missionaries. Once they were all safe and accounted for we […]
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Five Years!

Five Years!

We are coming up on five years of being here in the Philippines! Wow, I can hardly believe it! Just for fun, here’s a little bit of a recap of SOME of what has happened in the last five years – and this is just scratching the surface! As we look back, we have had a […]
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Renewed Focus

Renewed Focus

I think too often I get caught up in being a good “pilot’s wife” – especially when it gets busy. I want to do my job well so I work hard at having a weather report ready for Brian when he calls over the radio and making sure the guesthouse knows when a flight didn’t […]
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“Normal” Missionary Kid

“Normal” Missionary Kid

While it’s a bit of a contradiction of terms to use “normal” and “missionary” in the same sentence we are trying our best to help our kids know what it is to be American and also to help them embrace their life here. It’s a challenge but it also comes with some pretty fun times. […]
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A Record Month

A Record Month

This is right in the middle of rainy season so flights are always a challenge. We wait many hours and sometimes days for weather to clear and this means that Bailey is on standby with the radio until the flight takes place. Brian always packs an overnight bag in case he isn’t able to return […]
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Bushwheels

Bushwheels

You may remember that last June Brian went to Alaska to test out big tires for the airplane. The testing went very well and Brian was able to get the tires approved by our leaders for a trial period on one of our Philippine aircraft. The tires arrived and Brian didn’t have any fun at […]
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December: Projects, Projects, Projects

December: Projects, Projects, Projects

We started to feel crunched for time as we saw our partners’ home assignment coming closer and began to see how busy we would get when they left. We would be on our own and Brian would be flying, Bailey would take over the bookkeeping and also do the flight following. There were lots of […]
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