Currently Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF), the largest missionary flight organization in the world, has a need for pilots/mechanics in providing aid to the over 300 Christian organizations that depend on their services. Many potential missions aviators never reach the field due to the costs involved in training. According to Ron Hilbrands, Manager of Recruiting for MAF, there is a great need for scholarships to those wanting to pursue missionary aviation. Many students graduate with considerable debt and then never make it to the mission field.
Pacific Missionary Aviation (PMA), based in the South Pacific, serves the islands of Micronesia and the Philippines. Currently, PMAs Melinda R. Espinosa, Business Manager/CFO in Hagatna, Guam, expressed immediate need for scholarship assistance. She also expressed a great need for pilot/mechanics for both their Micronesia and Philippines mission.
JAARS of Waxhaw, NC, who provides technical and transportation support to Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT) and SIL International has an urgent need for pilots and mechanics for their fleet of 37 aircraft. Recently, JAARS President Jim Akovenko noted, Our international sister organizations [WBT & SIL Intl], perhaps more than ever before, are seeing the need for JAARS services in support of Bible translation. They have issued mandates that will increase our involvement through communications, technology and transportation support. The challenge before us now is to meet their increased expectations.
The need for missions pilots and mechanics for missionary transport in Africa, medical transportation in the South Pacific, or Bible translation in Papua New Guinea, is prodigious. Christian Aviation Ministries can aid in filling the need for pilots and mechanics in the mission field by providing scholarship funding for training and placement in an organization in need of their service.
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