It’s Finally Here!

April 16, 2016

Oh happy day! The helicopter is not only here in the Philippines, but now it is HERE – tucked away in the corner of a friend’s hangar as it waits for Josh and Brian to finish assembling it. It’s been a long week of waiting. We arrived in the city last Sunday to make sure […]

Keeping the Main thing the Main Thing

April 10, 2016

I don’t like writing updates like this. I like the updates where we get to tell you about the translation that’s happening in one of our villages or how a certain people group is hearing the Gospel for the very first time! Those things are fun to write about because that’s why we are here…and […]

The Helicopter Arrives This Week!

April 4, 2016

We returned to the Philippines on New Year’s Eve after being away from our regular ministry for a year of training. That was just three very short months ago. We have been getting things ready for the arrival of the new helicopter. This has been more challenging than we thought. Of the 90 days that […]

Disassembling a Helicopter in 3 Minutes

June 19, 2015

Brian and the guys in the shop have begun the rebuild on the helicopter we’re going to use to start the program in the Philippines.

Bushwheels

January 20, 2013

You may remember that last June Brian went to Alaska to test out big tires for the airplane. The testing went very well and Brian was able to get the tires approved by our leaders for a trial period on one of our Philippine aircraft. The tires arrived and Brian didn’t have any fun at […]

December: Projects, Projects, Projects

January 10, 2013

We started to feel crunched for time as we saw our partners’ home assignment coming closer and began to see how busy we would get when they left. We would be on our own and Brian would be flying, Bailey would take over the bookkeeping and also do the flight following. There were lots of […]

The Three Hour Brew

October 22, 2012

The day that we moved back into our house I decided to make a cup of coffee. It was a rainy day and I thought it would be nice to enjoy a hot cup of “proof that we have a merciful God.” I pulled out the coffee grinder and right away it smelled moldy. I […]

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 […]

The Grand Finale

October 27, 2011

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 […]