MAF flies its airplanes in extreme places around the world and those same extreme places can be accompanied by extreme weather.

What many people forget is that this “success” starts at home base, with the crew of national workers who are vital to our work.

One of the joys of being a missionary pilot is the unplanned flights that leave you with a special memory. Although I serve and fly in Indonesia now, my family and I first served with MAF in Ecuador. One morning while I was just about to leave our hangar for a day of flying in the Amazon, I noticed someone in the passenger waiting area. It was Dewey, one of the men responsible for killing the five missionaries in the jungles of Ecuador in 1956. While modern law would convict him a murderer, God’s laws have set him free and he is one of the most radically changed men I know––passionate in his dedication to promoting and proclaiming the very God he once tried to destroy.