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...

A few more miles part 2

The remainder of our trip in the southwest went smoothly, we had a nice time in Oklahoma catching up with Kingdom Air friends, seeing a bit of the Chickasaw culture native to Southern Oklahoma, eating local cuisine, and getting some planning and preparation done for the upcoming year with our KAC bookkeeper. 

 Friends we met at King Ranch this past summer from Northern Texas

 The Oklahoman speciality of fried pies which we enjoyed for breakfast one day

 We saw a bit of snow on our way through Tennessee on our last day's drive but thankfully no incidents

Dwayne's been busy getting back into working on planes since we got back. Got this plane started for the first time since it was donated this week!

Just a few more miles

We are on the move again... we have been on the road a week and a half now, traveling to a lot of new places for me, old placed for Dwayne & Carolyn. 

 We spent a night in Panama City Florida with friends there and had a wonderful time visiting with friends old and new there as well as spending a night in Alabama with friends of Dwayne & Carolyn. It was a great time of reconnecting with partners in the ministry and were given an engine for a 182 which will be a blessing.

 Next stop was/is Longview where we spent a week at the LeTourneau University for their missions week and had a great time connecting with students, pilots and mechanics and were able to speak with many about possibilities in Missionary Aviation. Dwayne has been reconnecting with many friends some whom he has known since he lived in Longview during his college years at LeTourneau.

 We met this neat group in Longview a group of engineer graduates who are building a 6 seat experimental plane that will be sent to our partners in Thailand

 This is the model of the plane that they are building

 And it was a small world as I met Audra who also graduated from RCCA in Vestal and lived in Owego, NY. 

 We had a great weekend this past weekend with the Loving family, catching up with them and meeting their family and home church as they work on raising their support in their home area in Texas.

 We celebrated Carolyn's birthday with the Loving family in Fred, TX

The Lovings & Kings 

Refresh, Renew, Reboot

From Thanksgiving to Christmas I had 6 weeks "off" or at least working part time, from a distance on some typing projects, catching up with supporters & my home church as well as spending time with family. Here are a few pics from that time... doing annual christmas activities, church events, dinner parties, fun with family, and friends as well as attending my cousins wedding

 

 

I arrived back SC January 2, and now it's back to work, flying, and something different every day as we plan and prepare for all the Lord holds in store for 2016 at Kingdom Air Corps

In times like these...

“I would have despaired if I had not believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord int the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord.” Psalm 27:13-14

Looking at the news and all that is going on the world around us it is easy to despair of ones usefulness and ability to make any difference at all that is going on in the world. It is easy to say there is nothing I can do about the gross overwhelming evil that is visible everywhere from the news, to entertainment, to our society.  Yet even in this present age God has placed we as believers in the world as a light for Him, and as the darkness deepens so the contrast of a holy life will stand out. I am so encouraged by this verse, and the promise/ reminder that even in the darkest days yet I know I see/ and will continue to see God’s goodness. 

As this world slides into the dark despair of living without hope for the future, we have the privilege to be Gods light, sharing the hope that is found in Christ alone. Let us be faithful to this call to be live the salt & light lives set apart to holiness.