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Media Release: MAF Australia and Endeavour Christian College launch new educational flight partnership.

To launch the partnership, on August 3rd, MAF Australia General Manager Ian McDougall and Chief Flight Instructor Andy Little will be flying the brand new Cessna 182 Training Plane to Cooktown to formalise the partnership and speak with the school Community on MAF and Missionary as a career.

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Restoration of the Forgotten

KeA and Birgitta Arnlund are devoted to missionary work, and have been actively involved with MAF for many years. For the past nine years they have been investing their talents in helping the Turkana people of Lokichoggio in northern Kenya in an ever-expanding ministry of schools, evangelism, community development and food distribution.

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A Year of God’s Grace – Axon Family in Papua New Guinea

Testimony of God’s Grace in the lives of the Axon Family in Papua New Guinea after a terrible accident last year

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Bringing Healthy Smiles – Arnhem Land

It was not your usual dentist visit! Treatments from the Dental Therapist took place under the shade of a tree and children brushed their teeth under a nearby garden tap. MAF and Laynha Health are partnering together to bring health and education to the isolated communities of Arnhem Land.

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Comfortable and Efficient: Malaria Treatment Distribution

Two health officers from the Sandaun Provincial Health service are transported by MAF to four of their health centres to distribute Malaria tablets. MAF are pleased to assist the PNG Health Department overcoming a distance of almost 700km in less than 4 hours flight time. How comfortable and efficient is that! That’s where MAF’s heartbeat is making an extra jump: to help others to accomplish their work and to see people in remote areas physically and spiritually uplifted – by medicine and kind words of encouragement.

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15,000 Chickens Transported by MAF Timor-Leste

During March 2018, the MAF Timor-Leste Programme only had one aircraft. VH-MQO faithfully flew around the country delivering sick and injured patients to Dili National Hospital for the Ministry of Health. The plane was used by significant government officials like Jose Ramos Horta, former Prime Minister and President of Timor-Leste and Dr Mari Alkatiri, current Prime Minister of the country. Then VH-MQO has transported staff from aid and development organisations around the nation for their work in health care and technology development. And it has carried fifteen thousand chickens to Oecusse.

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Who maintains the many little airstrips we land on? Part 1

Who maintains the many little airstrips we land on? It’s the local communities! It is not an easy task to keep the little bush airstrips in operational condition to comply with the high MAF standards for safety. Keeping the grass cut all the time in a tropical climate, and having a good drainage system to prevent the airstrip from being soggy is very time-consuming. Imagine if your little airstrip doesn’t get a lot of traffic, but you are still having to cut the grass all the time by hand, just in case there’s a medevac or other need.

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Press Release: Five new Cessna Caravans for MAF Papua New Guinea

Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, and Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) International are pleased to announce the order of five Cessna Caravan 208 turboprops for its operations in Papua New Guinea (PNG), with the option for purchasing an additional two aircraft. This is the single largest aircraft investment by MAF International in its history. The five aircraft are scheduled to be delivered from Textron Aviation before the end of this year and are expected to be operational in PNG by mid-2019.

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Thank you Jonathan Lowe, Timor Leste

How do you celebrate nearly seven years of leadership and service to MAF and Timor-Leste? That was the question that faced the MAF Timor-Leste team as January 2018 approached and they prepared to farewell Jonathan Lowe and his family who have led the team in Timor-Leste for the past six and a half years.

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Mobile Dental Clinic – Papua New Guinea

The people at Niksek had never been to a dentist before. When facing toothache or a mouth infection they just had to hang in there or treat it the bush way to get the aching tooth out somehow or get used to it. Now, in January 2018, two German dentists had brought a mobile dental unit to the people with the assistance of MAF.

“We are so appreciative of MAF and all their staff who made this ministry possible,“ one of the dentist’s Gerhard expressed. “We are so grateful for all their assistance, safe and timely flying and the highly subsidised flights. We could not have done this without MAF as Niksek and Moropote are nestled between the foothills of the highlands and the plains of the mighty Sepik River.”

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Arnhem Land Safari

Students at the Flight Training Centre in Mareeba get a unique opportunity as part of the training programme to go on a remote area safari and visit a MAF operational program. These safari’s give students exposure to flying in remote, isolated, hot conditions and to navigate over often featureless terrain. It takes them beyond the comforts of their local area and forces them to safely plan their flights with changes in weather conditions and limited access to fuel and outback accommodation!

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Overcoming Barriers – All in a Day’s Work in Papua New Guinea

At the end of the day, 30 adults, a child and an infant travelled safely with the Caravan P2-MAG, piloted by Luke Newell; and also about 2 tonnes of cargo were transported from major centres into remote villages. That’s what MAF stands for – overcoming barriers by our aviation service.”

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Critical Decisions, Correctly Made = Lives Saved

“I send you this email about yesterday’s drama for me and the Wewak team. Elijah was diagnosed with a burst Appendix. When he reached Australia, it had not burst yet, but he was warned he had less than twelve hours to live. Had we not taken the extra steps to save him, he would have died.” – Paul Woodington, MAF PNG

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MicroSD Cards for Christmas – Arnhem Land, 2013

Just imagine the possibilities when you combine mobile technology and the ability to reach remote locations in a MAF plane. That’s what Peter from MAF Technology Services Arnhem Land did.

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Fleeing for her Life

After a short 15 minute flight, we arrived at A* and met the missionaries there. One of the missionaries quickly pulled Jason aside and told him that, as well as our booked load, they wanted us to put a young woman, Susan*, on the aircraft and take her to Goroka. She had been abused and brutally beaten by her husband over several days and he was intending to kill her. Susan had managed to escape and had found refuge at the mission station. The missionaries had hidden the woman in their house, but now they needed to move her and had arranged a safe house for her in Goroka.

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Visiting Gäwa

In East Arnhem Land, MAF is partnering with Gäwa Christian School to bring a full education to the remote homelands.

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The Early Days of MAF Australia – as written by an eye witness

MAF Australia recently received a beautiful letter off one of our long time supporters, 96 year old Barry S. Barry’s family have been involved with MAF Australia since the very beginning and below he relays some wonderful memories of those pioneer days.

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An Unexpected Late Afternoon Mission in Timor-Leste

A training flight for a new pilot in Timor-Leste recently took a dramatic turn when Chief Pilot Marcus Grey and training pilot Timon Kundig attended a late afternoon emergency medevac.

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A Day in the Life of Pilot Jason Job – Timor Leste

What does a day in the life of one of our pilots on the field really look like? Read all about it here as Pilot Jason Job in Timor Leste gives us a glimpse into his everyday.

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MAF flies the Agape School of the Deaf in Timor-Leste

“We needed to get to Atauro on Tuesday but there was no ferry and strong waves. So, the MAF plane brought us there and in just fifteen minutes we arrived and we were able to cover a lot of activities.” – Wennie Fernandez, Founder of the ‘Agape School for the Deaf’ in Dili.

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