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The Grand Finale

The Grand Finale

These last few months have been stressful to say the least. We’ve had a lot on our plate and had to adapt our schedule around several changes that we couldn’t have seen coming. This has meant that I have had to fly a lot closer to our departure for the States than we’d planned. In […]
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Flame Out, Not Burn Out

Flame Out, Not Burn Out

A few years ago I took my motorcycle on a long ride in the Arizona desert. I was nearing the end of a very tiring 100 mile ride when the engine began to sputter. No problem, I thought, I’ll just select “reserve” on the fuel tank. I reached for the reserve lever only to discover […]
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Steve Jobs is Dead. So is our iMac

Steve Jobs is Dead. So is our iMac

It was tragic to hear this week about the death of Steve Jobs. What an amazing inventor, businessman and communicator. He really made a lot of advances in the world today and many of his inventions are helping us in our ministry to work more efficiently and with less time staring at blue screens and […]
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It Takes a Team

It Takes a Team

The following came from the NTMA field news on www.ntm.org. It is a great story of how we are all part of the same team: A visit from a church team from Alaska helped the Dinangat visualize something they’d heard about. A work team recently came from ChangePoint of Anchorage, Alaska, one of the sending […]
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Taking it up a Notch

Taking it up a Notch

It feels like I’ve only just begun flying here in the Philippines, but by the time we head to the States for home assignment in November I’ll have flown almost 300 hours, nearly 1,000 landings and 600 flight legs. It doesn’t sound like much, but under these conditions and on these short flights, that is […]
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Rust and the Art of Vehicle Maintenance

Rust and the Art of Vehicle Maintenance

So here I am, in a hotel room in the city still trying to change my rear brake pads. Let me explain what’s going on… Normally changing brake pads on my truck takes me about 30-40 minutes per axle and in my past experience it’s done every 50-80K miles depending on driving style etc. etc. […]
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Going to California in November

Going to California in November

This week marks our three-year anniversary of life in the Philippines and it has been an incredible three years. We have really felt God give us unnatural strength and endurance through some really hard times and incredible stress. As we look back at our first term here we see better than ever just how important […]
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American Calibration | A Top 10 List

American Calibration | A Top 10 List

When we first arrived on Mindanao we were invited to go out to eat at a restaurant down the road with our friends. It was described to us as “good if you’ve lived here for a while.” At that time we hadn’t lived here long enough. It wasn’t very good, but it was edible. 1 […]
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The Replacements

The Replacements

We’re absolutely thrilled to have the Davis family join us on Mindanao and we are hard at work keeping up with our normal flight program responsibilities as well as training Joel and Missy to take over so we can go on home assignment. When we return, we will work together with the Davises to keep […]
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Overwhelming Gratitude

Overwhelming Gratitude

I’ve been overwhelmed with gratitude the last few weeks. There’s nothing like flying into the tribe for the first time and seeing firsthand the things that God is doing among the people to make one feel grateful-grateful for the missionaries, the pilots, and for the grace of God to see His good work accomplished among […]
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