One Week to Go

August 24, 2012

It is hard to believe that one week from today, we’ll be heading back to the Philippines for another term. We are certainly excited to get back to the field but it is different this time. This time we know what we’re getting into so the excitement of the adventure that we had the first […]

Counting Down to August

July 6, 2012

We realized this week that it’s time to shift gears again and start focussing on our return to the Philippines. As of now our plan is to return during the last week of August, and we need to be packed up in the first week of August. We have a lot to accomplish to do […]

I Love Going to Work

July 3, 2012

It all started after a phone call with one of my best friends from college, Matt Keller (owner and operator of Blue Ice Aviation). I called to pick his brain about why he likes flying their Cessna 185 on big tires. The phone call ended with an invite to visit him in Alaska to come and […]

Flying the Kodiak

May 29, 2012

I had a great surprise opportunity during a trip to our Arizona home office for meetings. While we were there the NTMA Kodiak was getting a final inspection by it’s destination country’s government officials. It was cleared to head overseas and part of that process was helping our International Chief Pilot get some practice instructing […]

Scared into Reading

May 29, 2012

I recently returned from a week of meetings at our home office in Arizona. It was a very humbling experience and one that I wouldn’t fully process until I got home and starting thinking through everything. It was the first step in our transition into leadership and Garry’s transition out of the Philippine program. Those […]

Just How Stressed are Missionaries (and what can we do about it)?

March 23, 2012

Shortly after we arrived in the States, some of our friends (both missionaries on their first term) started having somewhat mysterious major health issues that have brought them home to the US to get checked out. Doctors are mostly baffled by the ailments because there is no clear cause. It’s truly puzzling. Then I came […]

A Little More Responsible

March 3, 2012

A couple of weeks ago our team met in the Philippines to discus the future direction of our flight program. Brian was able to attend a couple of the meetings via Skype and it was a very profitable time. One of the things on the agenda was to assign and define job descriptions for all […]

Helping the Church Help the Community

February 22, 2012

Several years ago the Tala-andig tribal church decided to help improve the living conditions in their village. This was a complicated undertaking since they rarely leave the jungle and don’t have access to some of the basic things we do. Among other things, they wanted a way to provide soap, salt and kerosene for lanterns […]

Survivor: Road Trip Edition

February 13, 2012

We ended our roadtrip a couple of days early, on February 12, because we were losing our minds! Not really, but we felt that the kids had taken all the car-seat-time they could handle. We were also feeling a little pressured for time since we have several meetings this week and next week in California. […]

The Long, Cold Road

February 10, 2012

We left home on January 18th on the day that the biggest snow storm in years was forecasted to hit the Northwest. We had a pretty tight schedule to keep so we decided to inch our way North until things got too slippery. It seemed like we averaged about 30mph from Redding to Spokane, WA […]