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Co-founder of MAF dies

Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF)

Mission Aviation Fellowsip (MAF) co-founder, former RAF Flight Lieutenant, and Normandy Landings veteran Stuart Sendall-King, has died aged 98. He was one of the early pioneers to take light aircraft to the remotest parts of Africa in the aftermath of World War II.

Serving as an aircraft engineer during the Second World War and ending his RAF career as Chief Technical Officer at RAF Duxford, Stuart nurtured a growing desire to use aircraft for good – helping to establish MAF in 1945.

Indonesia: cannibals come to Christ in Papua

Indonesia: cannibals come to Christ in Papua

Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF)

According to Unus Walilo, pastor of the church in Apahapsili, a village high in the mountains, the Yali people ‘didn’t know anything about the outside world.

‘We lived in the Stone Age, killing each other, eating our enemies. We didn’t know any other life’, said Unus.