Saying Goodbye :(

Today marks the day that we have to say goodbye to our visiting friends who have been such a blessing with their presence and help to us!  Thank you to Terry Rushing for bringing this team out to our mission field.  Our family will miss Jacquelyn, and I Tom and I will surely miss Terry's expertise, help, fellowship and encouragement in the hangar and in the plane!  Here are a few pictures of some of the things we all did together.

Many (not all) of the people flown into Akwaya for dental, medical, and evangelistic work. 

Discussion at the airfield. 

The lake in Bambalang village

National Youth Day in Ndop

The Thebeau family

Visiting at the Thebeau's house

Singing a special in church

Chrysanthus and his family

Riding horses in Sabga

Mansfield Restaurant, Bamenda.

Birth of Amanavil Bible Baptist Church!

It was a real joy on Sunday to see the lasting fruit from the years of outreach in Amanavil, Akwaya by bro. Needham and Felix.  With the baptisms and organization of the believers, Bible Baptist Church was born on Sunday!  Here are a few pictures!

 

On Saturday, Terry and I flew out to Amanavil together so I could fly on Sunday and so we could see the baptisms on Sunday. We enjoyed seeing the activities happening there.  

I flew Pastor Ernest on Saturday from Amanavil, Akwaya, to Meyerim, Akwaya, so he could preach at Gateway Baptist in Akwaya Town. 

Some of the bridge work going on...

Sunday morning before the baptisms...

Felix preaching before the baptisms...

Baptizing Elias from Amanavil...

About 10 people were baptized on Sunday!!

Walking back to church for the completion of the service. 

Tom and I flew back and forth from Amanavil to Meyrim from around 12 to 6pm.  Here is Tom's landing in Sabga just before dark! 

 

This picture is from today.  Jacquelyn flew out in Tom's plane along with Dr. Carol for the medical clinic in Meyerim, Akwaya.  She spent two nights out there and experienced a good part of the outreach.  I flew her back today.  

In between flights...

In between flights I have been working on the plane with bro. Rushing.  Abby has been showing Jaquelyn around the quarter.  We also took our monthly trip to Bamenda with her. 

Annual inspection and some repairs

At the Mansfield Restaurant (our Bamenda favorite) with Jacquelyn

Chloe in Bamenda. 

David delivering a beautiful shelf/cabinet that he made for our parlor. 

Medical/Dental Evangelism phase 1

Last Wednesday, we bagan the first phase of flying out the teams for the Medical and Dental Evangelism outreaches in Akwaya.  These are used in support of church planting efforts primarily being led by national  missionary, Pastor Felix.  The first outreach was to Amanavil for the clinics, but this outreach also included building a bridge over one of the major rivers.  Those two events included flying over 20 people with their supplies and tools!!! 

We had the most perfect flying day in months...thanks for praying for that! 

Arriving in Amanavil with some of the team. 

One of my passengers, Benjamin, a good friend from Sabga, and a carpenter who helped on the bridge. 

We staged the flights out of the Mbingo hospital airstrip because of high tailwinds in Sabga.  During one of the flights away there was a bush fire that caught the airstrip on fire.  Ty Thebeau, Andrew, Spencer, and others helped put out the blaze. 

Departing Amanavil for Mbingo after dropping off a boy named Fabulous! 

Andrew and Spencer heading out to Amanavil with me.  They were my last flight of the day. 

Tom flew in the Thebeau family, and I dropped off Spencer and Andrew before heading back to Sabga about an hour before dark.  Some of you may remember a boy from our church named Clement whose mother and brother died leaving him an orphan.  He is in the orange shirt and now lives with the Thebeaus in Sabga. 

Wings as Eagles Team!

Wow...life has been super busy since the Wings as Eagles team arrived the end of January.  I have had a great time working daily with Terry Rushing, our ministry head in Oshkosh, Wisconsin!  Abby has had a wonderful time with Jacquelyn, our friend from North Carolina.  Two other young men came from Canada to support and help their friends the Thebeaus who are working nearby.  What a great Wings missions team!  Here are just a few pictures of their arrival:

Tom flew the entire team up saving them lots of driving!

Terry greeting the Thebeaus...

...our family with Jacquelyn

Terry got to work right away inspecting my plane in for its annual inspection...

Terry found some small cracks in the steel cage that needed to be welded. 

...yeah! I got my new EFIS replaced with another new one that works :)