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Mission Aviation
Fellowship News, June 2011
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Madagascar Mission Run
One of the regular features
of our flying in Madagascar is the Madagascar
Mission Run (MMR), which carries a variety of
passengers from different organisations to reach
the projects where they work. These include
medical, Bible translation projects and development
work.
MAF pilot Josh Plett shares a
report from the latest MMR:
‘This last trip we enjoyed a
full and varied MMR through the northeast of
Madagascar with a diversion to the west.
‘As of late, we have been
helping out more and more with Wycliffe Bible
Translators. Again this time, there were two
passengers from this mission who joined the flight
to Mananara where they will work with their
partners for one week. Their plan for the week is
not only to encourage the ongoing work but to also
sit with the team and push hard to get as much done
as possible.
‘We also flew two medical
workers to Mandritsara who will be spending the
next couple of months working at Good News
Hospital. One, a gentleman from Canada, is doing an
internship to learn more about doing medicine in
remote areas, while the other, a doctor, has come
to take over for Dr Mann (who usually runs the
hospital) while he is in England.
‘There, we picked up one of
the hospital doctors along with her parents-in-law
as she was accompanying them to the capital
Antananarivo (Tana) to see them off as they headed
back to England. As well, we picked up a priest who
works in Mandritsara but was travelling back to
Europe for a small break.
‘From Tana, we carried three
men from SALFA, a Lutheran-run mission that has set
up medical clinics around the country. On this
visit, they were meeting with their team in
Besalampy to talk about the community health
programme they are setting up. One of them was
going to stay to do ten days of community health
training with their local staff who in turn will
teach the local people.’
MAF has been operating in
Madagascar since 1988 and flies one aircraft,
helping to support the work of missions, NGOs and
local churches.
Poor roads and weak
infrastructure coupled with poverty leave many
communities isolated. The island is also heavily
exposed to tropical cyclones which bring torrential
rains and destructive floods.
In recent years, political
instability has weakened the already fragile
economy, leaving an estimated 50% living below the
poverty line.
Please pray for this nation.
Pray for peace and stability, and for a government
that wants the best for its people. Pray for the
organisations involved in sharing the Gospel and in
helping with development. Pray for MAF.
To find out more about the
MMR and MAF’s work in Madagascar, please visit
www.maf-uk.org
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