Baby saved from flesh-eating condition
Gary Clayton
Date posted: 1 Nov 2021
A five month-old girl named Sangai, who needed urgent medical treatment for a flesh-eating condition, has been saved by a Mission Aviation Fellowship pilot in Liberia.
Little Sangai was also suffering from hydrocephalus – a build-up of fluid on the brain. The condition, if left untreated, can damage brain tissue.
Unholy Halloween: what’s the history?
Gary Clayton
Date posted: 1 Nov 2021
The road to hell, in a quote generally attributed to Samuel Johnson or St Bernard of Clairvaux, is paved with good intentions.
Whether you’re a UK believer organising a ‘Light Party’, an evangelical Christian running a ‘hell house’1 in America, an avid trick-or-treater pounding the streets, or one of the 11,766 people in England and Wales identifying as Wiccans in the 2011 Census, Halloween is an issue that’s hard to avoid.
Reasons to ‘ReJoyce’
Gary Clayton
Date posted: 1 Sep 2021
On 7 July, MAF Pilot Mike Brown loaded a new Kodiak Quest 100 aircraft with food supplies and Bibles and flew to Emdoman, central Papua.
The first operational flight for MAF’s newest aircraft had taken almost three years to reach MAF’s Indonesian programme due to coronavirus restrictions.
‘Leopard Skin Chief’ in S. Sudan peace bid
Gary Clayton
Date posted: 1 Jul 2021
MAF’s peace-promoting planes are helping
the aviation organisation’s partners to visit
some of the most war-torn regions in South
Sudan.
According to the UN, the first five months
of 2020 saw a 220% increase in incidents of
intercommunal violence
in South Sudan’s
Jonglei State compared with the same period
two years ago.
Urgent dash to avert war after romance ends in death
Gary Clayton
Date posted: 1 May 2021
When Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) Pilot Nathan Fagerlie landed in the remote village of Mokndoma in Papua, Indonesia last year, he could tell something was wrong.
‘Can you help us?’ asked Tim Ingles, a missionary serving there. ‘We have a situation.’
Two-day-old Barako saved in ‘miracle’ flight
Gary Clayton
Date posted: 1 Jan 2021
Even though the number of flights MAF made in 2020 was reduced because of coronavirus, its planes were still able to bring hope, help and healing to 26 of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable nations.
In Kenya, where overland travel can be dangerous by day and treacherous at night, Pilot Daniel Loewen-Rudgers flew a baby boy from Dukana, on the Ethiopian border, to Kijabe Hospital, when the condition of the newborn became critical. According to Daniel: ‘It was a miracle we could fly to a good hospital like Kijabe during the pandemic.’