Gotta love a plane with a rear view mirror
Beautiful day to fly through the mountians
and over the glacier
Friday, June 26, 2015
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Faithful
"Faithful is He who called you for He shall bring it to pass". 1 Thesalonians 5:24
"It is I who looks after you. I am like a luxuriant cypress; From Me comes your fruit." Hosea 14:8b
God is so faithful, both what he does for us and through us. It is a great mystery to me how God can use a "flawed tree" to bring forth his fruit. I don't know if I am just learning to see or taking more risk but it seems like everyday God is continually showing me fruit of faith in Him.
One quick story, Sunday night after evening service our chief mechanic, Dan comes in with Morgan who is volunteering and living here and tell us about the stranded lady they stopped and helped get to a gas station as the transmission on her car went. This is a common occurrence around here, helping others on the roads as we have seen this as an open mission field and a captive audience to show God's love. Anyway a bit later Dan got a text from the lady saying she was still stranded without a ride back to Anchorage so Dan asked if I would accompany he and Morgan to offer her a ride as a female presence would be good and more natural. So at 930 pm we headed the 20 miles to Sutton to see if we could give her a ride. We always pray before such stops for Gods guidance and that he will be glorified in our efforts before going, which is such a confirmation in ones mind that our mission is not ours its Gods.
Kristen was in her car and relieved but also felt bad about the effort as she said she had someone on the way but we offered to stay with her until they arrived as a gas station in the middle of the night, even on the longest brightest day of the year isn't the best place. So for the next 3 hours she and i talked back and forth between our cars about her life, her struggles and I shared a bit about God's goodness and sovereignty even in the midst of hard times. She asked me to remember her in prayer, and as we parted at 1240 I invited her to come to the ranch and gave her my number.
I didn't hear anything from her until today, though I had text inquiring how things were going. So today I was surprised to hear from her she said her car is still in Sutton so soon she will work out a way to get it and when she does she will come out to King Ranch to visit. Once again asked me to pray for her as a single lonely mom of 2 jr high girls. My prayer is that "God who had called me will bring it to pass" the full opportunity to share the gospel and help Kristen understand that lonliness isn't her problem sin and separation from a God is.
It is just a little thing but I still marvel the fruit that I am allowed to produce and that God can use me to bear it. There are many other story's of late of Gods faithfulness, but what more shall I say for time will fail me if I try and recall all of the stories of Gods faithfulness to me.
"It is I who looks after you. I am like a luxuriant cypress; From Me comes your fruit." Hosea 14:8b
God is so faithful, both what he does for us and through us. It is a great mystery to me how God can use a "flawed tree" to bring forth his fruit. I don't know if I am just learning to see or taking more risk but it seems like everyday God is continually showing me fruit of faith in Him.
One quick story, Sunday night after evening service our chief mechanic, Dan comes in with Morgan who is volunteering and living here and tell us about the stranded lady they stopped and helped get to a gas station as the transmission on her car went. This is a common occurrence around here, helping others on the roads as we have seen this as an open mission field and a captive audience to show God's love. Anyway a bit later Dan got a text from the lady saying she was still stranded without a ride back to Anchorage so Dan asked if I would accompany he and Morgan to offer her a ride as a female presence would be good and more natural. So at 930 pm we headed the 20 miles to Sutton to see if we could give her a ride. We always pray before such stops for Gods guidance and that he will be glorified in our efforts before going, which is such a confirmation in ones mind that our mission is not ours its Gods.
Kristen was in her car and relieved but also felt bad about the effort as she said she had someone on the way but we offered to stay with her until they arrived as a gas station in the middle of the night, even on the longest brightest day of the year isn't the best place. So for the next 3 hours she and i talked back and forth between our cars about her life, her struggles and I shared a bit about God's goodness and sovereignty even in the midst of hard times. She asked me to remember her in prayer, and as we parted at 1240 I invited her to come to the ranch and gave her my number.
I didn't hear anything from her until today, though I had text inquiring how things were going. So today I was surprised to hear from her she said her car is still in Sutton so soon she will work out a way to get it and when she does she will come out to King Ranch to visit. Once again asked me to pray for her as a single lonely mom of 2 jr high girls. My prayer is that "God who had called me will bring it to pass" the full opportunity to share the gospel and help Kristen understand that lonliness isn't her problem sin and separation from a God is.
It is just a little thing but I still marvel the fruit that I am allowed to produce and that God can use me to bear it. There are many other story's of late of Gods faithfulness, but what more shall I say for time will fail me if I try and recall all of the stories of Gods faithfulness to me.
Friday, June 19, 2015
Simple Faith
So everyday God answers prayer but somedays his answers come up and shake your hand and introduce themselves. Today was one of those days.
Since start up here and there we have had some hitches and glitches with radios in aircraft or as it is known in the industry avionics but we haven't had anyone with a lot of experience and knowledge in this area of work so we have been limping along with squeaky or cracking radios or sticky talk buttons. The last few days the list of radios with squawks has been getting longer and Dwayne and I were discussing it.
"Someone is coming to help with that," he said.
"I don't have anyone that I know of on the schedule that is coming, is there someone I don't know about?" I asked
"Yes, but I don't know who".
"Because you forgot who is coming?" (In my defense, this is a common occurrence).
"No because there is someone coming that does avionics that we don't know about".
I smiled and nodded because after this much time I do know things work out, and God does provide in many ways. The day goes on and in the afternoon a guy shows up who had called last week about coming by and checking out our operations and possibly spending the night. I went out and met him talked a minute to refresh myself on how he got connected and what he did in aviation, and low and behold when I asked what he did he said well I work in Avionics. I said "we have been expecting you, Dwayne said there was someone coming to help with that and it was you". I introduced him to Dwayne, "this is the avionics guy you said that God was sending" so now for a few days hopefully God has sent us Ryan to help us with our squawks and get us up again.
Since start up here and there we have had some hitches and glitches with radios in aircraft or as it is known in the industry avionics but we haven't had anyone with a lot of experience and knowledge in this area of work so we have been limping along with squeaky or cracking radios or sticky talk buttons. The last few days the list of radios with squawks has been getting longer and Dwayne and I were discussing it.
"Someone is coming to help with that," he said.
"I don't have anyone that I know of on the schedule that is coming, is there someone I don't know about?" I asked
"Yes, but I don't know who".
"Because you forgot who is coming?" (In my defense, this is a common occurrence).
"No because there is someone coming that does avionics that we don't know about".
I smiled and nodded because after this much time I do know things work out, and God does provide in many ways. The day goes on and in the afternoon a guy shows up who had called last week about coming by and checking out our operations and possibly spending the night. I went out and met him talked a minute to refresh myself on how he got connected and what he did in aviation, and low and behold when I asked what he did he said well I work in Avionics. I said "we have been expecting you, Dwayne said there was someone coming to help with that and it was you". I introduced him to Dwayne, "this is the avionics guy you said that God was sending" so now for a few days hopefully God has sent us Ryan to help us with our squawks and get us up again.
Monday, June 15, 2015
More work and play
So we work and we play and I think when I am working I forget to take pictures, but below are a few
More moose meat for the freezer.. gotta love road kill
The girls washing planes
Lena soloed before she left after her month of training
Another evening bonfire on the hill
With an airshow by our fearless leader
Saturday a group of us had a fabulous day off enjoying the sunshine scrambling up hills and then went to the ocean to dip our toes in the pacific
Saturday, June 06, 2015
Alaskan Fun
So along with all the long days of work we fit in some fun times together doing various classically Alaskan or Kingdom Air Corps Activities.
Dwayne's Chocolate milkshakes are reserved for special occasions, last week we celebrated one of the guys getting his private pilots license
We celebrated Lena's birthday with a bang (or a couple hundred) with some target practice
The girls came over to celebrate my birthday with a musical evening of singing and they played their guitars ( I feel so unmusical with all these musicians)
Or another classic KAC activity off roading up to Dans spot to have a bonfire and make smores
Thursday, June 04, 2015
Always be prepared
So one of the new things at Kingdom Air Corps is the firehouse built last year that in the winter houses the Chickaloon community firetruck as well as the Kingdom Air Corps tanker. In an effort to be good stewards of the asset of a firetruck on site we had our first training tonight so that many of our staff and students will be prepared in case of an emergency.
Sunday, May 24, 2015
What's new
Went on a few hikes
I got a 3 day crash course in networks and am now a Certified Mikrotik Network Associate, which means I am now dangerous enough that I might be able to fix things in our Network when we have issues which we just thing week
Lots of work on the roads and runways getting things up to speed for the summer
That's all I have pictures of for now... I'll have to get some pictures of out first few student flying this week!
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