Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF)

Using aviation and other technologies, MAF brings the Gospel and life-sustaining services to isolated people worldwide. MAF delivers hope as well as food, Bibles, medical care and relief workers.

Why do we exist?

The mission of MAF is to share the love of Jesus Christ through aviation and technology so that isolated people may be physically and spiritually transformed.

What have you accomplished?

In 2010, the MAF fleet of 58 aircraft executed 33,365 flights, logged 2.5 million nautical miles, transported 94,961 passengers, and delivered 9.18 million pounds of cargo—on some 1,700 rough, unimproved dirt and grass airstrips or waterways. More importantly, these statistics translate to MAF having saved 58,440 days of travel time—or 241 work years—over the course of 12 months.  Redeemed for productive Kingdom work, these 58,440 days exceed the equivalent of 80.5 three-year terms of missionary service!

MAF Missionary Suzanne Lincoln shares the following story of a life-saving MAF flight in Africa.  I wish you could see the image burned in my memory of  (MAF pilot) Joey and about 10 other men working together to gently lift the boy from a make-shift ambulance into the back of the plane, while continuing to manually ventilate him and pray for him and his family.  After getting the boy strapped down, his mother and father sat next to him and the doctor in the seat behind. Joey connected the oxygen to the ventilator and prayed for the boy and our flight.

So while Joey weaved us through the clouds and around the mountains, the boy lay there unconscious, his mother pumped his ventilator, the doctor monitored the boy’s vitals,
and his father stared blankly out the window… An hour and twenty minutes later we landed in Entebbe. The father rushed to immigration while the doctor checked the boy’s condition and the mother ventilated. An ambulance arrived, and Joey helped the technicians put the boy inside. With many expressions of gratitude from the family, we watched as the ambulance drove away.

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