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Serve with purpose. Impact lives. Join the journey.
Volunteering with MAF is more than just lending a hand, it’s joining a team that delivers practical help and lasting change to some of the world’s most remote communities.
For 80 years, MAF has been using aviation and technology to overcome barriers and transform lives. But we can’t do it alone. We depend on people like you to share our story, support our work, and help expand our impact.
Whether you’ve got a few hours to spare each month, or are looking for a meaningful long-term commitment, there’s a place for you in the MAF family.
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What volunteers do
Your role matters!
MAF volunteers help support the mission in diverse behind-the-scenes ways, liberating staff to focus on specialised tasks. Volunteer roles include:
- Assisting with administrative support (data entry, mailouts)
- Helping at events or onsite support at headquarters
- Community Connector – Call churches, host events and foster relationships
- Church Presenter – present MAF to a church community
- Special projects based on your unique skills
- VR Incursion Leader (Youth & Kids) – Take young people on a flight without leaving the room
- Prayer Group Leader – Help lift MAF’s mission in prayer
Note: Due to aviation safety and regulatory requirements, volunteers don’t support aircraft maintenance or flight operations.
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Why volunteer with MAF?
make a global impact
Every flight MAF takes brings life-saving medical care, supplies, disaster relief, and the gospel to remote communities. As a volunteer, your local effort fuels global transformation.
use your gifts for good
Use your gifts for public speaking, hospitality, organising, praying or tech, we have a place for your skills and passions.
be part of something bigger
You’ll join a passionate, mission-hearted community across Australia who care deeply about seeing isolated people reached and restored.
find meaning in what you do
Many of our volunteers say their involvement with MAF brings new inspiration, a stronger sense of purpose, and connection to stories that truly matter.
Check out our FAQs for Volunteering with MAF
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What you’ll get out of volunteering with MAF
A closer connection to the heart of MAF’s work and the people behind it
Inspiring stories of impact from some of the world’s most remote places
A renewed sense of purpose as you contribute to something meaningful
Friendship and fun as part of a like-minded volunteer community
Training and support from our MAF in Australia team
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Join the Mission
From time to time, we’re looking for passionate individuals to step into specific roles that help further the impact of MAF and support communities in need.
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Advocate Stories
Meet Advocate Chris Sinfield
At MAF, we are blessed to witness the lasting difference our alumni (former employees of MAF) make, long after their time of active service. They are the shoulders on which we stand – quiet, faithful and committed to bringing help, hope and healing to isolated communities around the world.
Our alumni continue to shape the MAF story through advocacy, prayer and sharing their experiences. Many become natural connectors in their communities, introducing MAF to new people, churches and in general conversations. Their credibility, built over years of service, brings authenticity and weight to every word they speak about MAF. Their ongoing involvement reminds us that service doesn’t end when official employment does; it evolves into new ways of contributing to God’s work.
Chris Sinfield exemplifies this spirit of faithful service. A pilot, aircraft enthusiast and former Air Force aircrew member, Chris has been part of the MAF family for decades. Since 1987, he has served on the NSW State Council, including ten years as Chairman. Alongside his wife, he spent significant time in Papua New Guinea, contributing to aircraft maintenance in Mt Hagen and training national staff.
Even today, Chris’s dedication continues in countless ways – speaking in churches, supporting events, or towing MAF’s promotional aircraft from Sydney to Melbourne for last year’s 80th Gala. He says, “Whatever MAF needs doing that I can help with I’ll do, using the skills God has given me.”
Stories like Chris’s highlight the ripple effect of committed volunteers and alumni. Each prayer, each conversation, each act of service builds on the legacy of those who have gone before.
