The latest Cole Communique
Our June Newsletter has been delivered into inboxes…
The link to read it and watch the videos is in this blog.
Yakona - The Joy in the Airplane’s First Landing
We both had the privilege of taking part in a first landing at Yakona airstrip. The community have been building this airstrip for over 30 years and finally they saw the plane come in and bring God’s Word to this remote community!
Challenges & Blessings
We’ve had several break-ins with items stolen recently, the security situation for us in Telefomin is being reviewed by our bosses. Despite these challenges, we still love living here and were recently blessed by some of our friends.
Eliptamin Women’s Conference
The Women’s Conference in Eliptamin at the end of June was a wonderful experience. I praised God with bush women from 14 language groups and, with help from some friends, gave out education, encouragement and “Days for Girls” Sanitary kits to 100 young women.
A Pilots’ Start to the Day
It’s 5.45am on a flying day, before he even has breakfast Ryan has logged on to check the weather forecast for the day ahead. Koda is also trying to make the most of Ryan being at home wanting snuggles and to play. But Ryan only has a few minutes to spare whilst he gets ready to fly through some of the most challenging terrain in the world…
Easter Weekend
We had a fun and busy long Easter weekend with visitors, a picnic, Easter Egg Hunt, meals with friends and a visit to one of the local villages. Lots of fun but it ended with saying goodbye, as things so often do in our life in PNG…
The Cole Communiqué - March 2023
Our March Newsletter went out to all our subscribers over the weekend, but for those of you who don’t want to receive our news in your inbox, you can read it all here…
Farewell Canada…
This evening we start our long journey back home to PNG. We take off out of Calgary just before 8pm and are due to arrive in Mt Hagen late Monday night Alberta time, which will be Tuesday lunchtime, PNG time, after 4 flights! We can’t wait to get home!
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Our June Newsletter
Our June 2022 Newsletter has just been sent out…
We are CAD1,300 / GBP800 short of our funding target to be able to return to PNG and serve for another 4 years!
Tari Base Visit
On a recent visit to Tari base, Henry, our night guard who had a serious motorbike accident back in August, popped in to say hello!
Farewell Alex
The Hagen Base recently said farewell to Mr Alex Lewa who, after many years serving as the Base Manager, has been asked to step into the new role of Community Liaison.
Kiunga Base Visit
Recently I (Shiv) popped down to visit our 2 members of staff at Kinga Base to check on them. I was pleased that the team there have made a few improvements to their base recently. Way to go team!
Ryan flew the American Ambassador
After we got back from our holiday in East New Britain Province, Ryan’s first flight on his first day back was to fly the American Ambassador!
July 2021 Newsletter
Our July Newsletter has been in inboxes for a week, but here is a link to it and our video Newsletter, in case you don’t personally receive it yet…
Vanimo Base Visit
Shiv did her first ever Base Visit to Vanimo, on the north coast of PNG, about an hour’s flight from Telefomin.
New Neighbours!
We spent a lot of May preparing the house next door for our new neighbours, so it’s great to have them here!
Munbil
Munbil is a village with its own airstrip and some Missionaries who work for “New Tribes Mission” on a Bible Translation and literacy project. Ryan recently has a flight in there where he took in a new Community Health Worker (CHW) and brought out a couple of people who had to go to hospital, they were unwell but not emergencies…
Wewak Base Visit
Some piccies of Shiv’s first “official” Base Visit to Wewak, on PNG’s north coast, back in March.
Happy 70th Birthday MAF PNG - TODAY!
Thank you all for enabling us to serve in PNG through your prayers, your kindness and your gifts to our work. You are all a part of the 7 decades of help and hope which has been flown to some of the world's most isolated people. That's such an amazing legacy, we are privileged to be a part of it with you all! Thank you!
Click on the picture, left, to watch a video of our friend, Nurse Rhema, one of the local health care workers who MAF supports and we fly out of Telefomin.