Text Box: The Challenge God has clearly called MidWest Missionair to support His missionaries in Latin America. It cost $1800 in fuel and landing fees to make a trip. How then can we cover the cost of this project? The missionaries themselves are willing to pay part of the cost especially when TLC is required to ship certain items. Dedicated volunteers have long been paying their own expenses. In these post 9/11 days as the possibility of war looms we have all had to tighten our belts. Yet if anything, recent events have underscored the need to share Christ with a hurting world. We are organizing our next trip for early fall. Please help underwrite this effort. Your gift will make a difference and will advance His work all over Mexico and Central America. Call MidWest Missionair Text Box: In Isaiah 55:8,9 we read: “This plan of mine is not what you would work out, neither are my thoughts the same as yours! For just as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than yours, and my thoughts than yours.” We had hoped to make this first trip about six weeks earlier but even a delay can be used by God and as the word spread that we would be coming to Honduras we received many requests to bring items that were needed. When we finally departed we had a full load. The annual inspection would be due before we returned so I dug into that right after Christmas. There were several items to correct but overall the inspection went very smoothly. I have come to expect opposition from Satan and when the inspection went well I held my breath. I was not disappointed. MidWest Missionair workers are all volunteers and hold down full time jobs. Every member of the team had trouble at work that week. Cash flow problems, computer disasters, and an array of technical and family problems plagued every member of the team for the five days prior to our departure. Satan tried so hard to discourage us that it was almost funny. ALMOST, but

First Flight South!
Text Box: by Gordon Blackie, President - Midwest Missionair Text Box: Your gift will make a difference and will advance His work all over Mexico and Central America. Text Box: Mexico and Central America are peppered with literally thousands of missionaries. Some are sent by denominations while many others have raised their own support. While working in the field they seem to become one big team working toward a common goal. Discussions about denominational differences are non-existent. There are areas that have not yet heard the gospel and in these areas evangelism is the main job. In other areas the Gospel has taken hold and native peoples are doing the evangelism themselves. Here missionaries are providing pastoral training, medical services, and helping with economic development. On this trip we were able to connect with only a few. We have only scratched the surface but from these few contacts we are learning how we can help. Volunteers are needed. There are few skills that can not be used of God. If you want to build, both churches and private homes are needed everywhere. As a start up aviation service with a small aircraft MidWest Missionair cannot take large groups. But after the large groups leave small groups work out better to complete the plumbing, electrical and finish work. A reliable source of good water is needed everywhere. Four is the ideal size for a well drilling team. A small medical team in a remote area can do wonders in a very short time. Full time missionaries need a life line. They must obtain supplies that do not ship well by conventional means. Certain items such as aircraft parts, electronics parts, computers, chemicals and other items require TLC. Transportation for missionaries to go home for family business and for fund raising is needed. This can often be provided better by the airlines but there are still times when MidWest Missionair can do the job better for less cost. MidWest Missionair is joining the team mentioned at the beginning of this article. We cannot be all things to all men, but there is a niche in the work in Latin America where we can make a significant and powerful contribution. As God leads the way we intend to join that team.

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Text Box: Garnett Prayer Team

Waiting to greet us on the ramp at La Ceiba was Kevin Dunn of Biblical Ministries Worldwide.  We were bringing some delicate aircraft parts to Kevin and he helped guide us through customs and immigration procedures.

Kevin began his ministry in Hondo-

ras many years ago to the Garifuna people who live along the beaches of the Caribbean in Honduras, Belize and Nicaragua.  They are a very pure black people who were originally

 

 

 

 

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