May 14 – 20, 2012

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When a farmer plows for planting, does he plow continually? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing the soil? When he has leveled the surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cummin? Does he not plant wheat in its place, barley in its plot, and spelt in its field? His God instructs him and teaches him the right way.
— Isaiah 28:24-26 (NIV, 1984)

Priorities for Prayer

Mission Aviation Fellowship is grateful for the many friends who pray daily for this ministry. Thank you for your faithful intercession!

Monday, May 14
Praise God for the faithful friends of MAF who visited us at the Redbird airport last weekend!
Tuesday, May 15
Please pray for an Indonesian Bible school student who has an infection in her brain after a long bout with typhoid. Narti is 17, from a faraway interior village, and is struggling to survive. MAF pilot Brian Underhill flew her out from the Bible school to Tarakan. Holly Underhill and some Indonesian MAF employees have been trying to get her the care she needs in the hospital there. MAF and Indonesian churches are joining together to fund her expensive care.
Wednesday, May 16
The International Association of Missionary Aviation (IAMA) is holding its annual conference at MAF headquarters in Nampa, beginning today. Please ask the Lord to bless this gathering.
Thursday, May 17
Praise God for the faithful friends of MAF who visited us at the Redbird airport last weekend!
Friday, May 18
Please lift up Jonathan Blomberg who serves as an MAF pilot in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Jonathan grew up as an MAF missionary kid (MK)! Click to learn more.
Saturday, May 19
Please ask the Lord to give wisdom and guidance to the MAF staff in eastern DRC as they try to meet the needs of the local people as well as the churches and relief agencies working there.
Sunday, May 20
Please lift up the team in North Central Asia as they teach their final English lessons at a local orphanage. Please pray for the children living there.

May 7 – 13, 2012

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The trumpeters and singers joined in unison, as with one voice, to give praise and thanks to the Lord.
—2 Chronicles 5:13 (NIV, 1984)

Priorities for Prayer

Mission Aviation Fellowship is grateful for the many friends who pray daily for this ministry. Thank you for your faithful intercession!

Monday, May 7
Please lift up Micki Blair, Administrative Assistant in MAF’s Development department. Micki and her husband, Greg, have been married for 31 years. They have three grown children.
Tuesday, May 8
Join us in praising God for the provision of a new (to MAF) Cessna Caravan aircraft to meet the flight needs in Haiti.
Wednesday, May 9
David and Joy Blomberg work at MAF headquarters in Nampa, Idaho. Dave is director of Ministry Partnership, while Joy directs MAF’s IT department. Dave and Joy have been with MAF for more than 35 years. Learn more about the Blombergs at www.maf.org/blomberg.
Thursday, May 10
We are grateful for your continued prayers for Richard Morris, director of MAF-Learning Technologies. Richard continues to recover at home from a February accident in which he was struck by a car.
Friday, May 11
Alas de Socorro, MAF’s affiliate in Ecuador, recently celebrated 25 years! Join us in thanking God for his blessings on this program over the years!
Saturday, May 12
MAF’s Kalimantan pilots recently flew some 160 pastors and church leaders in 25 loads (each way) with the Cessna 206, Caravan, and Kodiak to attend a conference in the Krayan valley. Praise God for this fruitful relationship, and ask Him to bless the work of this church.
Sunday, May 13
Cholera continues to spread in western Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it has been a problem for more than a year. Please pray for those suffering from the disease, and that the doctors, health workers, and MAF pilots will make a difference.

April 30 – May 7, 2012

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Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling…
—2 Corinthians 5:1-2 (NIV, 1984)

Priorities for Prayer

Mission Aviation Fellowship is grateful for the many friends who pray daily for this ministry. Thank you for your faithful intercession!

Monday, April 30
Please lift up the 30-some participants in the Bible Storytelling workshop in southern Costa Rica that concluded this weekend. Pray that they will effectively use their new skills to share the Gospel and bear much fruit!
Tuesday, May 1
Please lift up Mike Birdsong and his wife Linda. Mike is MAF’s benefits manager serving in Nampa, Idaho. Mike recently battled cancer and asks prayers for a positive result to an upcoming CT scan.
Wednesday, May 2
The learning lab in the La Carpio slum of San Jose, Costa Rica, is now offering courses in computer basics to adults, taught by a retired air force man living in Costa Rica and attending a local church. Please pray for the students, as they have a vast range of differing skills, which could make both teaching and learning challenging.
Thursday, May 3
There is currently a lot of political instability in Papua New Guinea, where MAF-International operates a flight program. Please pray for peace, and that national elections planned for later in the year will take place on schedule.
Friday, May 4
Please pray that MAF supporters and staff members alike will be blessed by fellowshipping together today in Texas.
Saturday, May 5
The MAF program in Papua, Indonesia, recently delivered three tons of school books to Illaga to replace the ones that were destroyed in the tribal warfare there. Please thank the Lord for His provision and pray for peace in this region.
Sunday, May 6
Praise God for our generous supporters, including a friend from California who recently donated a Beechcraft 35-B33 aircraft!

April 23 – 29, 2012

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Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you.
—Psalm 84:4 (NIV, 1984)

Priorities for Prayer

Mission Aviation Fellowship is grateful for the many friends who pray daily for this ministry. Thank you for your faithful intercession!

Monday, April 23
Please lift up Nate and Terra Birkemo and their two children, serving with MAF in Lubumbashi in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Learn more about this family at www.maf.org/birkemo.
Tuesday, April 24
The Birkemos praise God for providing safety as they fly in an area experiencing rebel conflicts. Please pray for resolution to these conflicts.
Wednesday, April 25
MAF has recently received a grant to upgrade the hangar in Lubumbashi! Join us in praising God for His provision and for the friends of MAF who stepped up to help with this need.
Thursday, April 26
The MAF team in Wamena, Papua, Indonesia, has just transitioned to a different internet service provider and is experiencing difficulties with email and internet connections. Please ask the Lord to provide a solution to this problem.
Friday, April 27
Please lift up Hillcrest International School in Sentani, Papua, Indonesia, and ask the Lord to provide additional teachers, administrators, and dorm parents for the K-12 school that serves more than 170 MKs from some 10 different organizations, as well as some Indonesian students.
Saturday, April 28
Join us in celebrating the dedication of a new Cessna Caravan aircraft bound for Haiti! Thank the Lord for providing this plane and ask Him to bless its ministry.The dedication ceremony takes place today at MAF’s headquarters in Nampa, Idaho.
Sunday, April 29
Pray that the MAF team in Wamena, Papua, Indonesia, will be a blessing and comfort to the medical patients they transport. Many of the patients are suffering HIV/AIDS or TB and often die shortly thereafter. Pray that the MAF staff will be able to point the patients and their family members to Christ as their only hope.

April 16 – 22, 2012

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How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty!
My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
—Psalm 84:1-2 (NIV, 1984)

Priorities for Prayer

Mission Aviation Fellowship is grateful for the many friends who pray daily for this ministry. Thank you for your faithful intercession!

Monday, April 16
Please lift up Rose and Dennis Bergstrazer who serve at MAF’s Timika base in Papua, Indonesia, where Dennis is a pilot/mechanic. The Bergstrazers have been with MAF for 27 years! Praise God for their fruitful ministry. Learn more about this family at www.maf.org/bergstrazer.
Tuesday, April 17
Pray that the Bergstrazers will be a source of encouragement to friends who work for a Papuan mine where employees are on strike.
Wednesday, April 18
The MAF-US leadership conference wraps up today. Praise God for His presence in these meetings and ask Him to be with those returning overseas.
Thursday, April 19
MAF’s overseas program managers are meeting in Nampa, Idaho, today and tomorrow. Please pray that their time together will be uplifting and productive.
Friday, April 20
Please pray that the MAF Timika team will be wise in dealing with a breakaway church group whose mode of operation is intimidation and assaults on pastors and churches.
Saturday, April 21
Please ask the Lord to grant safety and wisdom to the Timika team as they work in an area with political, tribal, and rebel conflicts.
Sunday, April 22
Aldo, a local man who serves with the MAF program in Timika, Papua, was recently married to Norita. Please ask the Lord to bless their marriage.

April 9-15, 2012

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Why do you look for the living among the dead?
He is not here; he has risen!
—Luke 24:5-6 (NIV, 1984)

Priorities for Prayer

Mission Aviation Fellowship is grateful for the many friends who pray daily for this ministry. Thank you for your faithful intercession!

Monday, April 9
The MAF team in Sentani, Papua, Indonesia, reports localized demonstrations and power outages. The team in Timika reports gasoline shortages. Please ask the Lord for His peace and provision.
Tuesday, April 10
Please lift up Brad Rhoads of MAF-Learning Technologies as he develops a voice-based interactive system for Biblical training.
Wednesday, April 11
Please lift up MAF’s regional directors meeting today at MAF headquarters in Nampa, Idaho.
Thursday, April 12
MAF-US’s first Leadership Conference begins today in Nampa. Please pray that the team will be sensitive to the Lord’s teaching as they prepare themselves for ministry leadership.
Friday, April 13
The team in West DRC has been flying many medical flights to support vaccination campaigns and combat ongoing cholera outbreaks. Please ask the Lord to bless this work and bring health to the people in the area.
Saturday, April 14
Please lift up Ghislaine Benney, special assistant to the MAF president. Ghislaine has been with MAF for some 20 years, and plays a critical role in the development of ministry strategy.
Sunday, April 15
Paul and Carol Bergen serve at MAF headquarters where Paul is manager of aviation training and Carol is administrative assistant in the Information Technology department. They previously served with MAF in Papua, Indonesia. Learn more about the Bergens at www.maf.org/bergen.

April 2 – 8, 2012

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At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.”
—Matthew 11:25 (NIV, 1984)

Priorities for Prayer

Mission Aviation Fellowship is grateful for the many friends who pray daily for this ministry. Thank you for your faithful intercession!

Monday, April 2
Aaron Bear is manager of the Program Services department at MAF headquarters in Idaho. Please lift up Aaron as he assumes new responsibilities related to estate planning and the MAF Foundation. Aaron is married to Rachel and has an infant daughter.
Tuesday, April 3
Please lift up the MAF staff serving in Juba, South Sudan. The need for flights in and out of Juba has been growing rapidly since this new country was born last year.
Wednesday, April 4
Today is MAF’s Worldwide Day of Prayer. Please join us in praying for those involved in ministry with MAF in remote places of the world, as well as the thousands of people we serve.
Thursday, April 5
Please pray for Maritza Hidalgo who is interning with the MAF team in Costa Rica. Maritza is part of IIBET, an organization that provides distance education for Latin American church leaders.
Friday, April 6
Brian Behal and his wife, Pam, are recruiters for MAF in the southeastern U.S. They have been with MAF since 1993, serving in Mexico and Ecuador before moving to the U.S. in 2005. Please ask the Lord to bless the work of these committed servants. www.maf.org/behal.
Saturday, April 7
The MAF hangar in Maseru, Lesotho, Africa, is very small and able to house only two of the five MAF planes. Please pray for success as the program manager seeks permission to build a new hangar at the airport in Maseru.
Sunday, April 8
Join the Lesotho team in praising God for the new server that was installed at the MAF hangar last week, optimizing communications!

March 26 – April 1, 2012

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So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you,
for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
—Matthew 7:12 (NIV, 1984)

Priorities for Prayer

Mission Aviation Fellowship is grateful for the many friends who pray daily for this ministry. Thank you for your faithful intercession!

Monday, March 26
Please praise God for the arrival in Mozambique of Dr. Hanneke Dekker, who will begin work with MAF’s MozMed flying doctor service as soon as she obtains her local license. With the addition of this second doctor, MozMed will double its ministry to the sick in the name of Jesus!
Tuesday, March 27
Just three years ago, MAF’s Mozambique program was a one-family program. It now has four pilot/mechanic families and a school teacher! Praise God for how he has allowed MAF to minister in Mozambique and pray that we will continue to be effective.
Wednesday, March 28
Please pray for the MAF team participating in the Sun ‘n Fun airshow in Lakeland, Florida this week.
Thursday, March 29
Ron Banks serves with MAF-Learning Technologies and lives in Waco, Texas. Ron and his wife Jackie have four grown children. Please lift up this family! Learn more about the Banks at www.maf.org/banks.
Friday, March 30
Ron Banks of MAT-LT recently returned to the US from Asia where he was helping build a flight simulator to be used in a new aviation training school. Please pray that the simulator and flight school will be useful ministry tools to the unreached.
Saturday, March 31
MAF-Learning Technologies is partnering with Christian Academy of the Air to create basic and advanced Bible courses for digital delivery via the Internet to some 4,000 students. Please pray for fruit from this labor.
Sunday, April 1
Please pray for Kimberly Baker, finance manager in the MAF Lesotho program. Kimberly is currently on deputation (raising support). Please ask the Lord to give her rest and encouragement during this time of travel and meeting with supporters. Read more at www.maf.org/baker.

March 19-25, 2012

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One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek;
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and seek him in this temple.
—Psalm 27:4 (NIV, 1984)

Priorities for Prayer

Mission Aviation Fellowship is grateful for the many friends who pray daily for this ministry. Thank you for your faithful intercession!

Monday, March 19
Please pray for Doug and Karin Allrich, who serve with MAF in Papua, Indonesia, where Doug is the MAF program manager and Karin is the program’s on-call nurse. Learn more about their ministry at www.maf.org/allrich.
Tuesday, March 20
Kyle and Esther Ambrose and their three children serve with MAF in Papua, Indonesia. Kyle is principal at Hillcrest International School, and Esther teaches elementary school there. Thank you for praying for this family. Read more at www.maf.org/ambrose.
Wednesday, March 21
MAF is preparing for a Leadership Training Conference to be held in April. It will be attended by some 70 MAF staff from around the world. Please lift up those planning the conference.
Thursday, March 22
The MAF program in Sentani, Papua, Indonesia reports that shortages of diesel fuel have led to sporadic power outages in an attempt to conserve fuel stocks. Electricity in Sentani is generated by large diesel generators. Please pray for a solution to this problem.
Friday, March 23
MAF pilot/mechanic Brian Underhill recently led a ministry team to Kampung Baru, East Kalimantan, to a Bible school there that trains Indonesian pastors and evangelists. The purpose of the trip was a six-hour series on how the Bible handles finances and possessions. It was attended by 175 local Bible school staff, students and Indonesian pastors throughout the region. Please join us in thanking God for this opportunity to minister, and pray for the attendees.
Saturday, March 24
MAF’s Marieke Rietveld (a midwife) and Rebecca Hopkins recently visited the village of Mahak Baru in Kalimantan, where they spent three days teaching the youth about healthy dating and Biblical motherhood. Teen pregnancy is rampant in this village. Pray for fruit from these efforts.
Sunday, March 25
We are grateful for your ongoing prayers for Richard Morris, director of MAF-Learning Technologies, who was injured when struck by a car in February. He is now at home in California where he continues to heal and undergo physical therapy. Please continue to lift Richard up before the Lord!

March 12-18, 2012

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Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth;
for I am God, and there is no other.
—Isaiah 45:22 (NIV, 1984)

Priorities for Prayer

Mission Aviation Fellowship is grateful for the many friends who pray daily for this ministry. Thank you for your faithful intercession!

Monday, March 12
Please pray for Darrell and Valerie Ash and their three children. Darrell and Valerie have been with MAF since 1997, serving in Kalimantan, Indonesia before their current assignment as a flight instructor at LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas. Read more at www.maf.org/ash.
Tuesday, March 13
MAF’s recruiters will be gathering at MAF HQ in Nampa, Idaho this week for strategic planning meetings. Please pray for safe travels and a productive time together.
Wednesday, March 14
In Kalimantan, Indonesia, several local pastors have asked MAF to provide Bibles! Join us in praising God for this request, and for the privilege of serving Him there.
Thursday, March 15
MAF’s Board of Directors is meeting in Nampa today and tomorrow. Please ask the Lord to give them wisdom and discernment.
Friday, March 16
Gene and Jen Arnold and their two children are MAF staff on-loan to Moody Aviation, a missionary aviation training program in Spokane, Washington. The Arnolds are in the process of adopting two girls from Haiti and would appreciate your prayers for a speedy conclusion to the process! Learn more about this family at www.maf.org/arnold.
Saturday, March 17
MAF’s Marieke Rietveld (a midwife) and Rebecca Hopkins recently visited the village of Mahak Baru in Kalimantan, where they spent three days teaching the youth about healthy dating and Biblical motherhood. Teen pregnancy is rampant in this village. Pray for fruit from these efforts.
Sunday, March 18
Pray for the kids’ programming class in La Carpio slum in Costa Rica. The kids recently built a small balancing robot and displayed it at a local church. Please ask the Lord to bring a better life to these children, and to bless the ministry of MAF and others working in La Carpio.