Six Years and Not a Minute Too Soon

March 13, 2025

Six years. That’s how long it’s been since we left the Philippines for a short home assignment. Fully intending to return just a few months later, we packed up only a few necessities and hopped on a plane bound for the U.S. Little did we know, that would be last time we made that trip […]

First Trip of the Year!

January 31, 2025

As I am writing this, Maycie is baking a cake for a get-together tomorrow, the boys are out playing basketball in the dark, and Brian is packing and prepping for his first trip of the year. It’s a weird stage of life we are in…everybody doing their own thing…It takes some extra effort to make […]

Better Late Than Never!

November 8, 2024

Your Latest in Pruett News! Is four years too long since our last blog post? I’d love to say it was our tactic to get you to write to us personally. In truth, however, we just couldn’t keep up with it all. This is our attempt at getting back on track and providing you with […]

We’ve Moved!

July 18, 2020

We’ve been in Arizona for about two months now and we are finally beginning to feel settled. We have moved into our new home, purchased furniture and appliances, built beds, purchased vehicles and stocked our refrigerator. We can eat, sleep, work, and play. Truthfully, there was a time in the beginning that it felt so […]

Family Life Interview

February 11, 2020

Family Life Interview This past week Bailey and I were interviewed by Family Life News for their “Missions in Action” segment. You can listen to the podcast, download it and/or share it if you’d like. Click on the image below to visit the Family Life broadcast.

California Dreaming

January 9, 2020

CALIFORNIA We are back in California! We had an incredible time in Colorado with Bailey’s family and we were so sad to say goodbye. Now we are here in California with more family and exciting things going. The biggest thing being that the kids have started GOING to school! Santa Maria has a public school […]

SLING LOAD TRAINING COMPLETE

November 26, 2019

SLING LOAD TRAINING COMPLETE Brian is traveling home from the Philippines today and tomorrow. He hopes to be home in time to spend a snowy Thanksgiving with Bailey’s immediate family in Colorado. The time in the Philippines setting up our next pilot to sling load on his own went better than we had hoped. Thanks for […]

The Barrier Crusher

January 27, 2019

A few years ago, when the new helicopter program was just starting, we never dreamed how much it would impact the work here. It has changed things in the greatest ways possible. We only thought we were reaching the farthest, hardest to reach places with the airplane, when the reality is, there are even farther places […]

Maayong Pasko! Merry Christmas from the the Pruetts!

December 21, 2018

As it is for most people, this is a very fun and busy time of year. We’ve had visitors coming through fairly steadily, which has been a huge encouragement to our whole family. Our partners left for a home assignment last June and so we’ve had a very small team in town to work with […]

August 21, 2018

A large percentage of our flying is for patients requiring medical attention that they cannot get in their village. Many of our missionaries set up clinics in the early stages of language and culture learning. These clinics can treat the majority of ailments because most of them are caused by poor drinking water sources and unsanitary living conditions. However, […]