REPAIRING DETERIORATED AIRSTRIPS WITH HELP

So, recently we requested a team from Shadow Mountain Community Church in El Cajon, CA to help us with maintenance on some of our mountain airstrips that were heavily eroded. They sent us a four man team fully prepared to work for a week, and work hard.

During that week one particularly remote airstrip required that three of us spend the night in the mountains after working all day with picks, shovels, and wheelbarrows to fill the damage done by erosion. The conditions were rough, the work difficult, the environment harsh with hot sun and constant problems with the biting flies. In work situations like that you get to know each other very well, and I was impressed by their work ethic, the way they plugged in wherever we needed help, maintained a positive attitude, and helped us accomplish the goals we set for the day. Later that night we were exhausted and were offered supper by our local contacts in the village. I was impressed with the way that they interacted and communicated with the people despite not speaking a common language. 

In a short time we were able to accomplish so much and get four of our airstrips back into acceptable condition. It was a great time of camaraderie and hard work, a time to get to know the guys and their backgrounds, and a time to be encouraged by them, and hopefully be an encouragement to them as well. Our gratitude goes out to Shadow Mountain and the guys who were wiling to take a week out of their schedule to help us keep going through one more flying season. It’s a privilege to be able to serve and partner with different people and churches to see a ministry succeed and progress. Thank you to each of you out there who have partnered with UIM Aviation to be a part of reaching remote people groups with God’s story. We appreciate you!

If the Lord is directing you to give to this project, please visit the link bellow. Please designate all gifts to the flight fund.

1 John 5:14-15 says, “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us- whatever we ask- we know that we have what we asked of him.”