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Flying for LifeThe quarterly magazine of MAF Australia

Winter 2015

One flight at a time4Hope for KaiamA new airstrip in PNG MAF’s response to the disaster in Nepal

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Hope for Kaiam

He felt something cold and slippery being wiped on him – a traditional celebratory slathering of mud – and all eyes watching him were filled

with laughter. The people surrounding this new airstrip could not have been happier.

Shortly after the aircraft rolled to a stop on a spot on the edge of the Sepik lowlands in PNG and Sebastian Kurz opened the door, about 30 enthusiastic and excited people from the community pulled him away from the plane and lifted him onto their shoulders.

15 years of toilThe story – from marking out this airstrip to its first landing on this day – had taken 15 years of back-breaking toil for the Lutz family and every member of the community.The late Dr Steve Lutz, Wapenamanda-based Gutnius Lutheran missionary, marked the centre line with his family back in 2000. He sadly never got to see the finished result so for his wife Julie and son Anton this was an emotional moment on 10 February 2015.

Airstrip surveyMAF PNG’s Flight Operations Manager Michael Duncalfe approved an airstrip survey and test landing by Airvan pilot Mathias Glass.

Pilot Sebastian Kurz, currently being checked into different routes and airstrips, was on board as well. He gained valuable experience and first-hand knowledge on how to prepare for a first landing and conducting an airstrip survey at a newly built airstrip, with the bonus of being greeted by an excited crowd of people who had helped to build it.

Sebastian said: “I was very thankful I had the privilege to be part of such an event. Mathias has been waiting eight years to open a new strip whereas I have not been five months in the country and have already experienced this wonderful event. I knew that it was special for the people in Kaiam to see a fixed wing aeroplane landing for the first time, but I didn’t have any idea how extraordinarily special it was for them. I have been there several times now and only slowly do I get a glimpse of what it means for those people to have access to the outside world through this airstrip.”

Exhausting alternativeSebastian continued: “They were totally excited and tried to explain bits and pieces of history. They apparently had to travel down the Karawari River if they wanted to go to the next airstrip at Munduku. This journey took them two days and was very exhausting. It

Story Mandy Glass Photos Mathias Glass, Sebastian Kurz and Anton Lutz

MAF pilots Mathias Glass and Sebastian Kurz discover the excitement and transformation a new airstrip can bring.

Anton Lutz working at the Kaiam airstrip

The new airstrip from the air

Initial surveys of the Kaiam airstrip

PNG: Hope for Kaiam

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was especially critical in medical emergencies. If they wanted to evacuate somebody they had to charter a chopper, which cost them a fortune.”

Mathias makes first landingWhile landing at Kaiam, Mathias’s main focus was to do a safe approach and landing at an airstrip that had never been used before. Sebastian reflected, “When we approached the strip, Mathias circled and thought about the airstrip vicinity and the surrounding terrain. He flew a right and a left circuit and chose between them afterwards. He told the people straight away that they need to cut down a tree and lots of bushes in the very short final approach of the runway.”

“The people told me how hard it was to build their airstrip and explained to me how they put the stones on the centre line and carefully marked both sides of the gravel area from the centre line,“ Mathias said. “They reassured me that both sides, left and right of the centre, are strong.”

“After shutting down the engine I realised what this landing meant to the local people. They were happily jumping and shouting. There was some kind of singing as well. I had the privilege to witness their joy as the first MAF pilot landing at Kaiam - including being covered in mud all over my body and uniform.”

The Kaiam people painted themselves, the pilots and even the plane with mud as an expression of their happiness.

Measles outbreakTheir hope is to get more medicine and services to help the small population of the

village. Areas in the rural highlands of PNG are currently facing a measles outbreak with many children and adults dying because of a lack of immunisation. Being a small community, a measles outbreak would have devastating consequences.

The opening of the airstrip happened just in time. Anton prepared several loads of freight to fight a measles outbreak in Kaiam, beginning with the test landing. On the first flight, the plane was loaded with 190kg of solar batteries. The following day, the plane was loaded with a fridge and solar panels in preparation for the delivery of the measles vaccines.

Continued excitementThe flights into Kaiam continued. Sebastian reported: “I have been there again, and the welcome at Kaiam was even crazier than the first landing. There were nearly three times more people and almost everybody was wearing coloured traditional dress. I and the two community workers were carried on shoulders and beaten with palm branches and given heaps of “bilas” (traditional decoration) for our necks.”

Reflecting on these first flights into Kaiam Sebastian said: “They live in another world totally and rejoice at the new access available to education, food and medical support. These things are commonplace to us and these so-called essentials don’t excite us, neither do we think about them as blessings anymore.”

Please pray that this airstrip will be a significant blessing for the Kaiam people.

From left: Sebastian Kurz, Anton Lutz and Mathias Glass

MAF pilots covered in mud after the joyous opening of the new airtstrip

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Disaster Response: Nepal

On the morning of 24 April, Bishnu Gurung and his friend walked along a narrow trail cut into a steep moun-

tainside in the Nupri Valley of Nepal, heading toward their tiny village of Jagut six hours further along. The only access leading into the mountains are the trails and walking bridges that crisscross the valley as they make their way high and deep into the Himalayas. When the ground began to move under Bishnu’s feet, and the mountain let loose a landslide of boulders directly above them, it was too late to run. A large rock hit Bishnu in the chest, knocking him unconscious. When he came to, he was lodged under the protection of a tree that likely saved his life. His friend was dead.

Silas Tamang grew up in a small village on a steep mountainside. When the earthquake

Story LuAnne Cadd Photos LuAnne Cadd, Dave Forney, Rich Thompson, Water Missions Int.

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hit, every house began to crumble. As his parents and life-long neighbours ran for their lives, landslides came down on either side. They couldn’t stay, even to camp under tarps. It was too dangerous. All 105 people left behind the only life they had ever known to camp in a forest of relative safety, all now homeless.

Similar stories can be told by hun-dreds of thousands of people in Nepal. Statistics give a picture of the magnitude but can never give a picture of the pain: more than 8800 confirmed deaths and more missing, over 600,000 homes destroyed and 280,000 damaged, 2.8 million people in need of humanitarian assistance.

How do you begin to help in the face of such daunting numbers?

Help on the WayMAF’s Disaster Response Team needed to first answer the question, “Can MAF help?” With very specific skills in fixed wing flying and aviation logistics, it was very possible there would be no need. Daniel Juzi landed in Kathmandu, Nepal a few days after the earthquake, fol-

lowed quickly by Alan Robinson, to assess the aviation situation.

Soon it became clear that fixed-wing planes could not help. Daniel and Alan knew what was needed to reach remote and isolated areas trapped behind a wall of damaged roads and landslides, or villages that had never known road access in mountainous ter-rain. It had to be small helicopters that could land in the smallest of spaces. Humanitarian organisations would need to quickly reach these areas to assess the needs and rapidly respond with aid.

Fishtail AirMAF made the decision to not fly but to coordinate the flying through a part-nership with a local highly respected company called Fishtail Air using two of their Airbus AS350 helicopters and pilots experienced in Nepal’s moun-tains. The aircraft held five and six pas-sengers, or up to 550 kilos of cargo. MAF staff had the skills to coordinate rapid and urgent humanitarian needs in a high-paced environment. It was a good match.

Bishnu

The price of hiring a commercial helicopter, however, is out of reach for most NGOs, costing anywhere from $1800 to $3000 per hour. UK Aid (DFID) agreed to fund 50% of the operation, and MAF supporters across the world contributed the rest necessary to sub-sidize the flights so registered NGOs needed only to pay 10-30% of the actual cost.

One body, many parts“God brought the right people, the right partners, and even the right local opera-tor to work together for this time, and use skills neither of the other had just by themselves,” said John Woodberry, MAF’s Disaster Response Manager. “We have people gifted in all kinds of things, from logistics, to coordination, to the legal side of flight operations, to assess-ing needs, to funding, and working with partners and their many different desires, and still keep our eyes on the big important issues. It’s been amazing.”

The overwhelming response from NGOs took the team by surprise. Often the large one-room office was stand-

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Left to right: Michael Bottrell, Pappy Frey, Vaughan Woodward, Daniel Juzi, Dave Forney

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Disaster Response: Nepal

ing-room-only. In the first two months, 69 humanitarian organisations used the service, flying 2,399 passengers, and 374,910 kilos of cargo to 210 different locations unreachable by road.

“To me it’s phenomenal!” John Woodberry says. “When you look at our 10-hour operational days from the beginning, on average there’s a helicop-ter taking off and landing every 9 min-utes. It gives you a feel of the pace of the needs we’re meeting out there.”

Not One Home Left StandingNGOs that used the helicopter service ranged from small to large, local and international, faith-based and secular. Over and over, the MAF staff heard pas-sionate thanks from organisations that had previously tried to reach remote areas, only to be hindered by impossible helicopter costs, frustrating wait-times, or bureaucratic nightmares prior to using the MAF service. Many became emotional as they told the team of the destruction they had seen and what

they were able to accomplish with the subsidized flights.

Six days after the program officially began, Daniel Burgi popped into the MAF Nepal office with his Sherpa col-league Dandul looking scruffy, excited, and emotional. “I wanted to give just a quick word of thanks to you guys,” he said and proceeded to describe the two helicopter flights loaded with food for two extremely remote villages.

Daniel has worked in Nepal for 18 years with Himalayan Life, a small faith-based NGO, and speaks the language like a native. Before MAF began coor-dinating the highly subsidized flights, Daniel and Dandul trekked for five days into a hard-hit but overlooked section of Sindhupalchok District, walking from village to village in a long loop.

“For three days we didn’t see one single house that was standing,” Daniel described. “We were absolutely stunned by the devastation. There was nothing left, simply nothing.”

Himalayan Life provided 3700 kilos of food and shelter materials in just

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two days to six villages via helicopter. “These loads were the first relief items to arrive in that area. People couldn’t believe it that we were actually back. We said we would come back and we came. It has meant an unbelievable lot to them. We’re very, very thankful.”

One Flight at TimeIn the face of daunting statistics, this is how you help: one flight at a time.

Medical teams from Medicins du Monde (MdM) flew into areas cut off by landslides to set up temporary medical clinics, and in one instance averted a full-scale Shigella dysentery outbreak.

Mountain Child flew large canvas tents into four high mountain vil-lages, allowing the damaged schools to reopen for the poor ethnic-Tibetan Nupri children.

CARE medevaced from a remote village a woman crushed in her collapsed home during the second

major earthquake.One family of seven, whose home

collapsed in Bhacchek, lived under a 10x15 foot tarp with two beds getting soaked each night by the monsoon rains until BMDMI (Baptist Medical and Dental Missions International) brought the materials to build a sturdy cor-rugated iron Quonset hut shelter, not only for this family, but for 200 more.

Water Missions International stopped a bloody diarrhea outbreak in the vil-lage of Pokhari by flying in over a kilo-meter of pipe, a 10,000 litre bladder tank, taps, and chlorination unit, giving clean water to a community that had lost every home. “My favorite memory from this was hiking up a week later for a follow up,” Project Engineer Tim Darms recalls. “I ran into a couple of the community members who immedi-ately recognized me. They greeted me with kisses. They were kissing my hand, kissing my chest. I was a sweaty mess,

but it didn’t stop them.” Tim paused, his eyes filling with tears. “Just seeing that level of excitement a week later really broke me.”

HopeAs MAF continues to provide flights

through 15 September with further UK AID funding, new avenues may open to continue serving the Nepali people beyond this crisis.

“It’s been a great privilege and hon-our to be able to serve suffering people with the gifts God has given us,” John Woodberry said, looking back on the work of the first two months. “MAF’s mission is to share the love of Jesus Christ through aviation and technology so that isolated people may be physical-ly and spiritually transformed. We have a wonderful opportunity to serve being placed before us.”

The needs are great and much prayer is needed as MAF looks to the future and how we might bring hope to a bro-ken people, one flight at a time.

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Nepal by numbers

The

stories behind the statistics

When a team from Inspire International flew into Nessing village, they were the first to arrive with help. To reach the village from Kathmandu in normal conditions requires a 10-hour drive plus a six hour hike. Now it is inaccessible even on foot. By helicopter it took a mere 25 minutes.

“Due to our partnership with MAF, they received 1900 pounds of rice, dahl, and tarps,” said Timothy. “It was so sad to see that 95% of the houses in this village were destroyed. We saw 200+ medical and dental patients with approximately eight life-threatening interventions (IV fluids and IV Antibiotics). We partnered with a local church in this village and His name was truly glorified in it all.”

The second earthquake caused more damage and death than the first in the village of Thami Chagu. The nearest place to buy any supplies is a 5-6 hour walk to a market in the lower valley. Pastor Buddhiman was walking the nar-row trail home when the second major earthquake started. Mudslide and rocks began to fall and the trail disintegrated. Buddhiman hid behind a large stone for protection, but four of his friends died instantly.

With the trails blocked, the villages were cut off, with supplies running out. Most homes, including the church, had turned to rubble. With funding help from Helimission, Compassion for Asia flew in food and shelter supplies, the first to arrive with help for the village of Thami Chagu.

In just 9 weeks, the MAF coordinated project in Nepal performed over 2000 flights to 210 destinations, carrying 2,399 passengers and 375,000kg of cargo. We partnered with 69 organisations, taking off or landing every 9 minutes.

Behind these stats, behind every flight, are stories of transformation, rescue and hope.

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During the second Nepal earthquake, CARE teams were in the village of Yarsa in eastern Nepal doing an assessment for the needs of the community following the first earthquake. The village had already been seriously damaged, and then the second earthquake struck.

During the quake, 37-year-old Nima was trapped under falling rubble from her house. Her hip was broken and she suffered internal bleeding. As a result of the earthquake the only road down to the nearby town was cut off by landslides and there was no access in or out of the village. CARE called on MAF to help medically evacuate Nima and take her to a hospital in Kathmandu. Thanks to the medevac her condition was stabilised in hospital and her life was saved.

We consider helicopters to be a luxury. The average poor person who lives in the remote village of Nepal would never get a chance to use a helicopter in their life. But now they are completely dependent on air transport to survive. PHASE Nepal continues to use MAF helicopters to fly iron roofing sheets, food, and medical personnel into the remote villages cut off from all access in the high mountain area of the Nupri Valley.

Dr. Gerda says, “If you pay for the full cost of a helicopter, it’s almost impossi-ble to carry tons and tons of iron roofing sheets. Kashingaun is about 500 house-holds, and they all need about 100 kilos of iron sheets. So do the math. It’s a lot of helicopters. MAF has enabled us to get those corrugated iron sheets out.”

The second earthquake caused more damage and death than the first in the village of Thami Chagu. The nearest place to buy any supplies is a 5-6 hour walk to a market in the lower valley. Pastor Buddhiman was walking the nar-row trail home when the second major earthquake started. Mudslide and rocks began to fall and the trail disintegrated. Buddhiman hid behind a large stone for protection, but four of his friends died instantly.

With the trails blocked, the villages were cut off, with supplies running out. Most homes, including the church, had turned to rubble. With funding help from Helimission, Compassion for Asia flew in food and shelter supplies, the first to arrive with help for the village of Thami Chagu.

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Everyone has a story to tell, but it’s easy to forget, even for someone whose job it is to find and tell those stories. Often it

becomes a blur of humanity, just another face in the crowd, another passenger on a flight. You never know what life has handed the stranger next to you.

Late and irritatedChuol Kang Wuol arrived an hour late for check-in at the Juba airport. The scheduled MAF flight, heading to Renk in the northern-most corner of South Sudan, needed to leave on time for the long journey.

When Chuol finally walked into the MAF airport office, he had left his luggage in the

car. After retrieving the bag for weighing and tagging, we walked toward the terminal as a friend showed up with yet another bag which now needed to be weighed and tagged back at the office.

We were late and irritated. We knew only that this tall Nuer man would be dropped off in Udier, a village on the way to Renk. It was a Medair flight, and for some reason, Medair felt that this man was priority.

We soon found out why.

4 years away from homeChuol, whose contract work with Medair had ended, was returning to his home to see his wife and four children for the first time in four

South Sudan: Every Life Matters

Every life mattersAfter being separated from his family for four years due to violence in South Sudan, Chuol was finally returning home to see his family and his young daughter he had never met.

Story and photos: LuAnne Cadd

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years. Chuol had never met his youngest child, nearly four, who was born after he left home. If he was excited and scatterbrained, it was absolutely understandable.

Hiding from militiaThose years away from home included several times of extreme danger that forced Chuol to hide or run for his life. In the most recent incident in August 2014, while working in logistics for Medair in a large northern refugee camp, fighting broke out with armed gangs targeting Nuer people. Caught at the market when the violence erupted, Chuol hid for two days with no water while the militia searched for Nuer to kill.

Six Nuer staff working for various international humanitarian organizations were executed, including some dragged from their well-marked vehicles and shot.

Chuol witnessed two men near him die but he was able to escape and later evacuated to Juba, although not without residual mental trauma. One Medair staff recalls waking night after night to the panicked cries of Chuol’s nightmares months later.

Learning to cope“I know that life is changing, that life in

the world is not permanent,” Chuol said, reflecting on how he had coped with such harrowing experiences. “When you see too much, you become a bit mad. But you can just be reminded to take it very easy because I know the time has come to get my family, and to get my people.”

Through the violent South Sudan crisis, with no communication, for a time Chuol and his wife didn’t know if the other was dead or alive. Finally he was returning to his home, his friends, his family.

Landing homeChuol stared intently out the window as the MAF plane landed at Udier, a small dirt strip in a remote and inaccessible region that had only been rehabilitated seven months earlier. He wasn’t sure if anyone knew he was coming, but as the tall lanky man climbed down the aircraft steps, shouts rang out as people recognised and gathered around Chuol, holding him, touching him, with tangible love and joy.

I imagined the healing this kind of love could bring. I was reminded as well of the simple truth, that in this land of turmoil, statistics, and massive impersonal numbers of displaced and dead, everyone has a story - and every life matters.

It is your support and donations that enable us to carry passengers like Chuol.

Every single flight in South Sudan brings transformation in ways we may never know. Together, we will continue to bring hope to a country that has lost so much.

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Healthy Competition

Competition is a fact of life in commerce. In Arnhem Land there is a strong demand for air travel, and as a result competition would

be expected. So it might come as a surprise to learn that two of the larger entities have a very close relationship indeed. Laynha and MAF have been together now for around fifteen years and the partnership continues to strengthen.

Laynha beginsLaynha began in 1986 with Adrian Wagg who began helicopter flights to the various Laynhapuy Homelands. His aim was to help the homeland communities re-establish so that living on ancestral lands was once again a possibility. The Yolŋu people then began to build airstrips and in 1989 Laynha acquired a fixed wing plane and began to fly in to the new airstrips.

Partnership with MAFGrowing at an exponential rate, there came a point when the airline had more than reached its founding vision, and Adrian began to look for a possible partner to share the load yet keep the same values of service for the Yolŋu people. It was this common ground that was

explored with MAF, and a mutual agreement was reached around the year 2000.

Gradually MAF began to supply pilots and engineers on a progressive basis as Laynha personnel left.

Death of Adrian WaggAll of this worked well until the tragic death of Adrian Wagg in a helicopter crash in June 2002. His going was a sad loss and left Laynha without a leader. Ian McBride, Chief Pilot at the time, filled the gap for the next year, until finally Adrian’s son Dan took over as General Manager in 2003.

In that same year Laynha released its Air Operators Certificate (AOC), becoming dependent on MAF to legally operate. Today both airlines operate harmoniously under the one AOC whilst both flying a separate programme.

This arrangement works well. MAF have their planes based in the remote communities of Arnhem Land whilst Laynha planes operate from Gove Airport, bringing a natural division of labour.

The advantagesThe advantages of this partnership are clear. For Laynha it is the support infrastructure of

Story Michael Butler Photos Balz Kubli

MAF and Laynha Air are often competing for the same flights, but their working partnership is stronger than ever.

MAF pilot Ian Purdey stands alongside a passenger in front of a GA8

MAF pilot Fabio Zuglian stands in front of a Laynha aircraft

Arnhem Land: Healthy Competition

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maintenance and staffing pressures removed. A constant stream of health and education personnel take to the air in Laynha planes to travel to the small, remote communities. Going the other way the Yolŋu people can travel for family matters, ceremonies, funerals and medical health they would otherwise not be able to reach. Laynha are truly serving the people they were set up for.

For MAF, the answer lies in reaching the isolated homelands through Laynha’s connections. Each homeland is a separate community and each airstrip is private to them. If you have not been invited then you

cannot go there. Today, many MAF personnel are well known and well received in these communities as friends as well as ministers of the Gospel.

Lasting competitionLaynha and MAF are separate entities and they operate on a separate daily basis, often competing for the same flights. But they are closer than ever and each appreciates and values the other. Together, they have made a solid and lasting contribution to the Yolŋu people and their quality of life. Long may it continue.

Aircraft engineer John Hermanus, working in the Gove Hangar

Gove Airport, Arnhem Land

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“In 1982, while living in PNG, Judith, my 16-year-old daughter became critically ill with malaria. Circumstances led to her being assessed as too ill to travel and an Australian government medevac was unfortunately cancelled. Sadly, she then died. I know firsthand the despair that isolation can bring and my heart goes out to others needing help in this way.

Michael and I both want to help others benefit from MAF’s sharing of God’s compassion to remote and isolated people by including MAF in our will. They are a lifeline of God’s compassion – God’s love in action!”

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MAF Australia

tranform lives with a gift in your will

Message from the interim CEOI think I’m beginning to understand the phrase ‘baptism by fire’!

As some of you may have heard, our CEO, Michelle Dorey, is on extended leave as she recovers from various illnesses. We pray for her daily and would love you to join with us in this prayer.

In her absence I have been appointed interim CEO of MAF Australia. To say that the last 3 months have been busy would be quite an understatement. With the disaster in Nepal, our ‘Life Flights’ tax appeal, and a database transition, things have been running at a fairly frantic pace.

As a team, we have been so thankful for our supporters during this time. Not only did we receive very generous

donations in support of our appeals, but we have been overwhelmed by graciousness and understanding as the inevitable problems have arisen with a new database.

We have also been humbled and blessed after receiving a recent bequest. This gift will enable us to transform many lives. For that, we are very thankful. It gave me opportunity to reflect on the importance of such gifts to MAF. One in six MAF flights are made possible by gifts in Wills. Many people use this unique way to help us save lives in the future. They are providing a lifeline beyond their lifetime.

If and when the time is right for you to include a gift to a charity in your Will, please remember MAF. A gift to MAF in your Will, whatever size, will make a real difference to remote and isolated people.

Our supporters Robyn and Michael Hanstock have decided to leave a bequest to MAF. You can read their story below.

I hope you enjoy this issue of Flying for Life.

Ian McDougallInterim CEO and Ministry Partnership Manager

Robyn and Michael Hanstock

For information and resources on how you can be a lifeline beyone your lifetime, please contact our Relationship Manager Edgar Voigts at Freecall 1800 650 169 or e-mail: [email protected].

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We have a lot to thank God for! We’re just seven months into the year and already we have seen six new Australian families enter various MAF programmes all over the world. As we progress, we are confident this number will increase even further.

This is not to say that there’s any less of a need for new staff. The ever growing need for skilled personnel means there are still large amounts of urgent vacancies such as HR Managers, Aircraft

Engineers and Programme Managers.Is God calling you to the mission field? We’ve set up a 5-part email series

that helps you explore what serving with MAF on the mission field looks like. Head over to maf.org.au/bigger to check it out.

As usual, if you have any questions or just want to chat through things, you can give me a call on 1800 650 169.

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Staff movements

Rob & Katie HovendenReturning from long service leave to Arnhem Land as Engineer

Jamie & Sarah MilnerMaintenance and Training Manager Mareeba

Dave & Allegra RogersFlying Instructor Mareeba

New to the field in 2015

Recent internal movements

ContactMAF Australia and CRMFABN 26 134 583 887

PO Box 7187 Baulkham Hills NSW 2153Phone: 1800 650 169Email: [email protected]: www.maf.org.au

Flying for LifeISSN: 2202-0365Editor: Rich Thompson & Rebekah SomandinEmail: [email protected]: BHB PrintingFlying for Life is the official magazine of Mission Aviation Fellowship and CRMF in Australia. Articles may be printed with acknowledgment.Flying for Life is a member publication of the Australasian Religious Press Association.If you no longer wish to receive Flying for Life (MAF News), please advise us at: MAF Australia 1800 650 169 and your name and details will be removed from our distribution list.

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Kuren Galant: Recruitement Manager

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