The busy, wonderful everyday

Since we got back from Florida we have had a busy schedule of people coming and going to work and visit, planes that need work done to get them ready to go to Alaska, some flying, flight training, painting and repairing. God is good and we are getting lots done, and lots is still left to do.

Here's the guys and gal working hard to get the engine off the 172 heading for Burma. We had a group of 4 engineers that came and camped out and helped us a couple days get the engine off cleaned and took a trunk load of parts back out to Texas with them. It was a great team and a great time of encouragement to see the body of Christ working together for the furtherance of the gospel through aviation.

There were lots of nice sunsets for the guys to fly off into. Lots of fun to watch and see them get some practice in the Citabria.

The guys pulling the engine apart and learning more about engines.

We had an easter weekend visit from the Hinton Family, old friends of Dwayne and Carolyn. This was the typical trying to get Dwayne off the phone and to focus for a picture.

Oh wait that's a better one.

There was a late night in the hanger, painting the elevators to go on the 180 tail.

Then we got to put them back on so hopefully it will be up and flying again soon.

Farewell Florida

We are back in South Carolina after out 4 whirlwind week in Florida. It was a blessing to be among our friends and partners in ministry at MFI and put faces with so many names. I wanted to share of few more pictures of our time at MFI, visiting people, and meeting aviation enthusiasts.

Dwayne was the official cotton candy maker at the MFI family day one weekend, he now firmly believes we need one, all mothers disagree.

 We spent most of our Sundays in at the Family Worship Center in Indiantown, Florida and made many new friends there and are hopeful that some of them will be a part of the work projects in Russia.

Some of the guys that we worked with at MFI on this DC-3 that they were doing an inspection on and used to teach us.

Dwayne working with Zack to show him how to grease the axles

We did spend our last day in Fort Pierce running over to the other side of the state to meet up with a DC-3 friend of Dwayne's and enjoyed seeing has collection of aircraft and sharing with him more about Kingdom Air Corps vision for ministry with our DC-3.

The gentleman we visited had this DC-3 which is the 6th DC-3 ever produced and the oldest one in existence today.

We also ran over to visit a friend who does cropdusting. The guys had fun climbing around on these sweet high-tech planes.

We spent Palm Sunday with a Russian family who Dwayne has know for many years and we enjoyed getting to know their family and share about what Kingdom Air Corps is doing to spread the gospel with their church.

Way down south

On the road again... we have been in Florida 3 weeks and will be here another week before heading back "north" to SC and then slowly heading up north slowly and will be up in AK before long. A few pictures of some of what has been going on. I don't have any pictures of the paperwork aspect of the job that I have been doing but a few pictures of the work we have been doing on our 172 we have down here and the planes here at MFI.

 The C-47 that the guys are helping the MFI mechanics  annual and learn more of the inspection procedures on a DC-3

 One of MFI's DC-3s flying in from their flight to Haiti

 We have also been working on our 172 down here and have been the airports entertainment watching the Alaskans work on their plane.

 Dwayne's been teaching us all about working on our plane too while we are down here.

 Even I have spent a couple days helping out on the plane, taking off flaps, degreasing them and stripping the paint off.

 Ran into another Crane in the hangar the other day when we were there working

Sometimes you just gotta make due and make an office with what you can where you are...