Men at work in the hangar!

So glad to have Miles working here in the hangar.

Miles and Gertjan is re-installing the windshield of Quest Kodiak 100. At 5 am in the morning they need to be at the hangar to do this job.

In one of our visits to the hangar,
Marielle is helping her Pappa to remove the papers from the windshield.

Our Happy Karyawan!

Here they are: Our happy karyawan and hard-working boys!

Introducing, Didi, Boy and Gasko. They are our mechanic folks helping our expats fixing and repairing MAF planes.

Our house in Papua!

Yes, this is our cute house in Sentani.

We live in MAF base. It is a 5 minute walk to the hangar for Gertjan.

Eyeview MAF Papua

MAF Office

MAF Compound


The Check-In Department

Of course, the people we are serving!

Preschool time

Marielle is in Pre-school now, yay!

Each mom who has a pre-school kid has to teach a letter in alphabet. Therefore, each week we take turn to teach a letter to the 5 kiddos . So, today is my turn to teach letter "E"!

Our craft is to make an envelope out of a colored paper. I got a very nice stamp to each of them as post stamp. The kids were so happy to make one for their moms. Inside the envelope is a cut-out heart, butterfly or a star for them to write something to their Mom or Dad.

These two girls are Dutch and the 3 boys are Americans. There will be another Dutch girl that will be joining them by December. These kids are sons and daughters of WYcliffe Bible translators, Yajasi or SIL, New Tribes Mission and Mission Aviation Fellowship.

comfort, comfort!

That's what we need for a moment. There were so many challenges we faced the past days in Sentani. A Partner in aviation of SIL/ Jaars in Indonesia just had a fatal accident which lost an experienced pilot and his passangers in the rugged mountains of Indonesia.

Please continue to pray for our pilots here for their safety and that they will have a teachable spirit to keep the work in safer side. Pray for wisdom as they fly the airplanes and that they just have to wait if the weather doesn't allow them to go. Pray for all our mechanics that they will be alert and sensitive as they fix and repair the planes.

We thank God that we have a GOD who is unfathomable unlike us humans so limited in our ways!

Plezier op de Papoea Harapan School!

Op de onafhankelijkheids dag, gingen we naar de Harapan School. De Papoea Harapan School is opgericht door Wally Wiley, directeur MAF Indonesie. De school is speciaal voor arme Papoea kinderen of kinderen uit probleem gezinnen. De kinderen op de school worden gesponsord door sommige zendings families. Vrijwilligers uit Amerika geven de kinderen les. De kinderen leren dat ze belangrijk zijn voor God.
Marielle speelt met de kinderen touwtrekken.

Gertjan en Glenda spelen zak lopen of "sack race" in het Engels. Dat was leuk!