Category: Ministry

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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My Amazing Wife

My Amazing Wife

It’s the night before a flight. A flight that involves me staying in the tribe for the day until the missionaries are ready to come home. I can see on the weather map that a stationary front is moving in over the Eastern Philippines which means rain and nasty weather – stress. Bailey and I […]
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Helicopter Lands in the Isnag Tribe

Helicopter Lands in the Isnag Tribe

When we first arrived here in the Philippines I hiked with a couple of other NTMA guys into the Isnag tribe to do some repairs on the solar panels and other odds and ends. It was a couple years ago but if I remember right we drove a car for 8 hours, rode a bus […]
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Mission Accomplished

Mission Accomplished

It is hard to believe that this coming summer marks three years since we first arrived here in the Philippines. Where does the time go? When we arrived the situation was a bit bleak. There was only one functional airplane (one of three) and one active pilot, Ben Hart. Our Chief pilot/program manager was leaving […]
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Dry Season is Here!

Dry Season is Here!

We haven’t lived here long enough to know the seasons, but if I didn’t know better I’d say dry season started yesterday. Dry season is a big deal here for many reasons. It marks the end of extreme mud and trades it in for normal mud. This allows the folks in the tribal areas to […]
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Death May Bring Life

Death May Bring Life

On November 28th rainy season started here with a round of weather that made flying nearly impossible. We were also alerted by Chris and Lynne Strange and Albert Castelijn that they had an emergency medical situation in their tribal location. The most critical patient was a man whom they were not certain if he would […]
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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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