The start of something good

Aug 30, 2007

>Monday morning… Renee and the kids joined me and two other missionary families for a very informal dedication of the new Media Ministry Office. We sat in a circle on the floor of an unfurnished apartment and prayed together and sang. It was the beginning of a...

Outside of Eden

Aug 15, 2007

Flew a hurried medivac today. Just 40 minutes from the city, to a rural place north of Mt Kenya. The flight was for a stranger. I didn’t even know his name – the man who died there beside the plane. My craft and the doctors just a little too late to start...

Appreciated

Jun 17, 2007

The cheers and smiles could be attributed to something more subtle. As my passenger so gently put it on the flight back home, “You can only eat so much goat.”

Mothers day

May 13, 2007

This one nearly slipped by. We don’t get little reminders like television commercials and greeting cards in the supermarket out here. I’ve managed to miss quite a few holidays – and been assigned to flights on every one except Christmas over the...

Grip for a day

Apr 27, 2007

Just off the eastern shore of Lake Victoria is a beautiful mountain island called Mfangano. Its been years since I had been there, and the little dirt airstrip hidden in the trees was just as bad as it always was – maybe even worse. I flew the Caravan low...

Elephants

Apr 15, 2007

Occasionally I get on a flight that can be described as, well… easy. Most are fraught with sweat, but some are just plain fun. On Saturday I flew a group out for a short mission trip with New Directions International. At the tail end of their trip, we flew into...