Challenges & Blessings
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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.

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A Pilots’ Start to the Day
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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…

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Easter Weekend
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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…

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Farewell Canada…
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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
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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!

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Tari Base Visit
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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!

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Farewell Alex
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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.

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Kiunga Base Visit
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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!

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July 2021 Newsletter
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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…

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Vanimo Base Visit
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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.

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Munbil
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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…

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Wewak Base Visit
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Wewak Base Visit

Some piccies of Shiv’s first “official” Base Visit to Wewak, on PNG’s north coast, back in March.

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Happy 70th Birthday MAF PNG - TODAY!
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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!

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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.