Category: Ministry

Passed!

Passed!

Brian passed his check-ride!!! Yesterday (Monday) Brian flew to the nearest city to have his check-ride with the Filipino check-ride pilot. This was his last step in getting his Filipino pilot’s license. As you can imagine, Brian was a bit nervous about this as there were so many unknowns – the pilot was one with […]
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Here’s the Power!

Here’s the Power!

Thank you for praying! Within a day of asking for your prayers on our behalf for a generator to use during the power crisis here, a good friend and co-worker of ours responded and offered to lend us his generator for the months we will be without power here. The great thing about this is […]
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Where’s the Power?

Where’s the Power?

We have lived on Mindanao long enough to understand that the power company is doing their best to keep up with demand and has exceeded our expectations by keeping the power on most of the time. In fact, we were only loosing power maybe once a week for a few hours and that was it. […]
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Brian Can Fly Again

Brian Can Fly Again

A couple weeks ago I went to Luzon to get our Cessna 180 ready to sell. I flew with our chief pilot, Garry, to Manila and we took a taxi from the airport terminal straight to the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) headquarters with high hopes of getting a pile of paperwork processed […]
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A Big Push. A Big Reward

A Big Push. A Big Reward

We are finding that we are part of a life that comes in cycles. We go through slower times and then we go through crazy times. This is the tail end (we think) of one of the crazy times. Thanks for praying for us over these past two weeks. There was an 8 day stretch […]
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Cessna for Sale

Cessna for Sale

In January our first helicopter pilot arrived here in the Philippines to set up shop on Luzon and to get the helicopter program started. It was also last month that we learned that the SIL flight program on Luzon, which has been covering for us until we get a helicopter program started, will be leaving […]
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Brian is Soon to Fly Again

Brian is Soon to Fly Again

This week we have been in Manila so that Brian can begin the process of getting his Philippine pilot’s license and begin his checkout process on Mindanao. It is a long, drawn-out process and we would appreciate your prayers as we work through the paperwork, travel and flying required for him to get his license. […]
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Our First Kodiak Delivered!

Our First Kodiak Delivered!

It’s not really about a plane … by Ian Fallis The Kodiak is really just a big hunk of metal. As cool as the Quest Kodiak airplane is – and it really is a cool plane – it’s little more than a bunch of aluminum with an engine stuck on the end. What’s really great about […]
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Announcing the New Flight Program

Announcing the New Flight Program

We are preparing for our annual conference and this year when we make our report we have some exciting news to share. We are officially announcing to all our missionaries that they can now schedule flights with NTMA on Mindanao. What a big provision from the Lord that we have reached our first of many […]
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Flying to Set Up a New Program

Flying to Set Up a New Program

For the last few weeks Brian and the other NTMA guys here have been working hard to get one of our Cessna 185s, "405", ready for service in a new flight program in the Southern Philippines. As I write this, 405 is enroute to its new home where it will once again carry New Tribes Missionaries to and from their tribal works. It has not flown in a missionary capacity since 2003 so this is an exciting day for us. Many pilot/mechanic teams have had a hand in getting the plane ready for this flight, and it was great to join that effort.
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