Why we do what we do.

Take a look at this short video about MAF and why MAFers do what they do. 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWjgcgUPIfs&feature=youtu.be

I am getting more and more excited to go out into the mission field and work with MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) or another Christian aviation organization. I just finished reading the book Jungle Pilot by Russell T. Hitt. The book is about how MAF began and ultimately the story of how missionary pilot, Nate Saint, and four other missionaries lived their lives for the gospel and died trying to share it with a savage tribe of Indians in South America. It is such a wonderful story of how they used their gift of flying to enable the gospel to reach the unreached. 

Matthew 24:14 “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”

I’m getting closer and closer to going out into the world wherever God leads me. I recently started my instrument rating training. This training will equip me to be able to fly in less than perfect weather conditions as well as to go to more places at night. In my training I focus on controlling the airplane as if I could not see anything outside and I just focus on the flight deck. 

The requirements to get an instrument rating are having 50 hours of cross-country flight time as pilot in command, 40 hours of actual or simulated instrument time, and a flight of 250 nautical miles along airways or by directed routing from an air traffic control facility. There are other minor requirements involved, but these are the basics.

I have also been looking at schools to go to for my aviation mechanics certificate. I will attend a mechanics school after I graduate next May for 1-2 years. My top choices as of now are Colorado and Alaska. I’m leaving it up to God to direct me in the way that He wants. 

Else and I at Redstone College (an aviation mechanics college) in Colorado.

Acts 20:24  However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me —the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace...  This is why we [Christians and missionaries] do what we do.

Fly with Christ,

Helen