{"id":2315,"date":"2015-05-25T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T22:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2015-05-25T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T22:00:56","slug":"taking-the-helicopter-to-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/2015\/05\/25\/taking-the-helicopter-to-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Helicopter to California"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brian had an absolute blast flying with both of his brothers. It was the first time either of them had been on a flight with him.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After Brian\u00a0received\u00a0his commercial helicopter pilot certificate we flew to California with the helicopter to visit friends\u00a0and churches. Our visit included a few big events. One was a weekend missions conference at the\u00a0Cornerstone Community Church. During this event we had a chance to share about our ministry in a very different way than we have before.<\/p>\n

Typically at missions conferences we set up a tabletop display that helps people connect visually with our ministry. This time we did that but also brought a much larger display. Brian landed the\u00a0helicopter at the church! It was a fun way for us to say\u00a0\u201cthank you\u201d to our church family in Atascadero and to give a tangible display of God\u2019s faithfulness in our lives and ministry. We plan to have many years ahead with\u00a0the helicopter reaching into new parts of the Philippine jungles\u00a0and flying precious\u00a0missionaries\u00a0and their cargo as they take the Gospel where it has never been understood before.<\/p>\n

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Hover taxiing back to the parking area. The whole time Brian gave rides it was really windy so it was always a challenge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After the conference ended, Brian started giving rides to friends, family, supporters and many from the community. Originally we were thinking we would be pretty excited if we could get 40-50 people to come out and get rides.<\/p>\n

At the close of the official event sponsored by our sending church, The Harbor, Brian had flown 12 out of the 14 days we were in California! He gave rides to 143 passengers, made 95 landings and flew over 43 hours! The event spanned two days and was such a great way to connect with the church family and many in the community who don\u2019t even attend The Harbor. Thanks to all who came out to support our ministry and who gave generously to help make it happen!<\/p>\n

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Brian was able to give rides to 143 passengers on a recent trip to California. Thanks to all who came out to connect with what God is doing in the Philippines through this little helicopter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}