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Missionary Aviation Fellowship News from Papua New Guinea
Missionary Aviation Fellowship NewsNews from Michael and Nicki Duncalfe in Papua New Guinea Click to visit the Duncalfe family website Click to visit the MAF Papua New Guinea website
Further News from Michael & Nicki Duncalfe re Mission Aviation Fellowship, Papua New Guinea We wish you the Lord’s blessing, guidance and provision for the New Year in all you do. The Christmas and New Year holidays provided a welcome break with two successive long weekends. We celebrated Christmas with friends sharing dinner together in the open area under our house. One of our friends had decorated the area magnificently, turning the utilitarian area into something pleasant and festive. We particularly appreciated the ability to chat with family over the computer. Even video links are possible sometimes when the telephone lines are working well. Michael’s injured thumb is virtually back to normal. Thank you for your prayers. MAF News Michael has not done a lot of flying because of his other responsibilities. However, the flights he has made included the following:- Moving a New Tribes Mission family out of Lengbati in Morobe Province as they finish their service in PNG and return to America. Taking building supplies to missionaries Matt and Becky Allan in Kanabea, Gulf Province. Michael completed the initial DHC6 Twin Otter endorsement training for new First Officer, Greg Cox. On Michael’s last flying day of 2009, he collected 1400kg of raw cocoa as a cash crop from a community called Korobaga in the Ramu lowlands, Madang Province, and flew it to Madang for sale. This positioned the aircraft so that building supplies for a health centre, part of a local government project, could be flown to the remote community of Kanainj on the return flight. Later the same day, some very creative programming enabled the Twin Otter to be positioned to pick up a young woman called Kathy who was seriously ill with birthing difficulties at Kopiago in the north west corner of the Southern Highlands. Kathy was so weak that she was unable to walk to the aircraft by herself. A few days later, one of MAF’s staff visited her in hospital; fit and well with a healthy baby daughter, Kathy said how grateful she was that we’d saved her life and that of her baby. Although the Twin Otter had been positioned to the Kopiago area using trade store supplies as loading, Kathy’s fare and that of the woman who accompanied her were paid for by donations MAF has received through MAF-UK. Nicki has demonstrated her versatility by acting as receptionist on three occasions while the usual staff have been away. Her understanding of the new telephone system in our HQ is certainly greater than Michael’s and that of many others. Weekly vegetable shopping and then drying and packing them into cool boxes for a family based in Telefomin, where good vegetables are not so readily available, is another of Nicki’s regular jobs. Most of the MAF ladies in Mount Hagen do this weekly for outstation families. An extremely sad, disappointing and discouraging event occurred in the first week of the new year when evidence of a large fraud was uncovered at one of our main bases. Your prayers for the situation are very much appreciated. Praise and Prayer Twin Otters stopped being built in 1988. Two of MAF’s three Twin Otters are particularly ‘long in the tooth’ and show signs of their long and hard service in the amount of unscheduled maintenance required to keep them airworthy. In 2008 Viking Aircraft, who now own the aircraft rights, started building them again. The Twin Otter is particularly suited to MAF’s programme in PNG and the possibility of purchasing new aircraft is being considered but at US$5 million apiece this would be no small project. Please pray for the Lord to guide decisions about whether a project of this magnitude should be undertaken as there are obviously many demands for funding of new aircraft in MAF’s programmes around the world. Please give thanks for Kathy’s recovery and safe delivery of her baby. Please pray for those involved in the fraud and for those on the leadership team who have to make decisions about the appropriate course of action. Please pray for Michael as he starts training Rick Velvin, a very experienced pilot, for his PNG Flight Instructor rating. Please pray for the flight students as they return after Christmas. Thank you for your support and prayers. With best wishes in the Lord Jesus, Please visit our website http://www.duncalfes.com and feel free to sign the guest-book. We'd appreciate any comments you may have. You'll find photos of us, Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea people and MAF aircraft, etc.
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