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Guyana: Fuel

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00:54 Today the missionaries of the AWA Guyana outpost
00:58 begin their day with an activity that is very familiar to them.
01:02 Yet, it might seem a bit strange for many others
01:05 who are accustomed to modern day conveniences.
01:08 They begin the day by rationing fuel and
01:10 making sure that both planes are ready for flight,
01:12 should an emergency med-evac call come in.
01:15 Getting fuel to this area is...
01:17 you know airplanes run on fuel
01:19 we can't do anything if we don't have fuel
01:21 And when we first got to Guyana we were
01:23 exploring how we would handle that.
01:25 We are not allowed to fill barrels with fuel at the airport
01:27 We have to have a really excessive insurance policy
01:29 to be able to do that so that was really not an option for us.
01:32 So actually what we do, is we
01:35 when a pilot flies into town, we fill up all the tanks
01:39 and we fly the airplane back to Mabaruma,
01:42 and then we siphon out the amount of fuel that we don't
01:44 need. We keep the minimum in there to get to Georgetown.
01:47 It's important that the air crafts stand ready because,
01:50 at any given moment, they might need to spring into action
01:53 and launch a flight to rescue someone from the jungle
01:56 and take them into a higher level of medical care
01:58 in the capital city of Georgetown.
02:00 Laura LaBore begins to siphon out the fuel by hand
02:03 into empty jerry cans.
02:05 Its sometimes tricky to get the fuel to begin to siphon,
02:09 but once it does, the fuel flows steadily.
02:12 The crew use the planes as a fuel camel
02:14 Since the white Cessna 206 made the last flight from Georgetown,
02:18 it has the most fuel in it. They will now siphon the extra fuel
02:22 out of it and leave just enough for it to make another flight
02:25 to Georgetown. They will take the extra fuel
02:27 and put it in the Cessna 1182 so it too has enough fuel,
02:31 to make a flight.
02:33 These planes hold their fuel tanks in their wings.
02:35 There are two separate tanks, one in each wing.
02:39 This helps the plane maintain its balance, puts fuel up high
02:43 away from the engine and helps keep the overall size of the
02:46 plane down buy utilizing the empty space in the wings for
02:51 Yah, we're siphoning fuel out so we can store fuel here.
02:54 when we do inter-land flights without going to Georgetown,
02:57 we need to have extra fuel here.
02:58 and we can't... we can't actually ship it in barrels.
03:02 So we have to fly it in the airplane, take it out here.
03:04 We leave the minimum in to get to Georgetown, and then,
03:07 you know, hopefully we can go back to Georgetown and refill.
03:10 and just keep storing it that way until we really need it.
03:13 The Cessna 206 can hold roughly about 92 gallons of fuel
03:17 while the Cessna 182 only carries about 65.
03:21 It takes around 40 gallons to make a round trip flight
03:24 to Georgetown,
03:25 however often times the flights turn into multi-stop trips and
03:29 the mission pilots often stop in other villages along the way
03:32 in order to be most efficient with time fuel and funding.
03:37 Without the luxury of a gas pump this activity is a vital choir
03:41 the missionaries must do in order to ensure that they have
03:44 plenty of fuel so they are able to do their jobs
03:47 in the mission field.
03:49 It's a hassle.
03:50 Sometimes we'll take it off of this plane and then
03:52 just go store it in barrels. And then as we need it,
03:56 we just kind of stock pile it, and then use it as we need it.
04:00 Laura Labore is one of the pilots in Guyana
04:03 but she is also an A&P mechanic. She is very accustomed
04:06 to working on, around, and in these airplanes.
04:09 The missionaries try to keep the amount of fuel even in both
04:12 fuel tanks if one tank is empty and the other full,
04:16 the plane will fly lopsided. So in order to avoid that,
04:19 they try their best to keep the tanks balanced.
04:22 If one is unequal, you're going to fly kind of crooked like that
04:25 So you wanna make sure it is more or less equal. Even when
04:28 you load like say there is a really big person on one side,
04:31 and a lighter one on the other side.
04:33 You going to tend to fly a little bit crooked.
04:34 So, besides that, that's the only reason really.
04:38 You can burn on either side that you want
04:41 on this one it burns equally on both sides for flying stability
04:47 Almost 80 percent of Guyana is covered with thick jungle
04:50 and there are very few roads that lead out to Georgetown.
04:54 Not only that, 70 percent of the country's population
04:57 lives in these hard to reach areas of the jungle.
05:00 Because no one can guess when these emergencies might happen,
05:04 the AWA pilots try to keep their airplanes fueled
05:07 and ready to fly.
05:09 Our agreement or partnership I should say
05:11 with the ministry of health ...what we do with them is
05:15 try and work with the programs that they already have rather
05:19 than trying to create something duplicate or parallel to them.
05:22 So, we allow them to decide what is an emergency;
05:27 and they'll call us and ask us to go as soon as possible
05:31 to wherever the village is, wherever the patient is,
05:34 and... and so we will go and collect them.
05:36 And what we also do is, depending on... like if there is
05:40 only one patient to pick up, we keep like a list of people
05:44 on standby from either the hospital, or the villages,
05:48 that need to go out. Sometimes the reasons are personal,
05:51 sometimes they're medical. And then if we have a seat,
05:53 we just quickly call them, and say
05:54 "Run out the airstrip, we have a flight and come on out with us"
05:58 I think our greatest need for the project is fuel
06:02 for the aircraft.
06:03 A lot of people don't want to give money for fuel,
06:05 because it just seems boring, it's not exciting.
06:08 It's not a house that you can take a picture of and say
06:11 this is the money that... this where our money went.
06:14 But if it weren't for fuel we couldn't fly.
06:17 And without flying, there is many many lives
06:20 that would not be saved.
06:22 And so... and its very expensive. Here fuel costs
06:26 about $9/ gallon and with all the flying we do
06:32 it takes about 500 dollars, US, to fill a tank of gas.
06:36 With a tank of gas, there could be at least,
06:40 30 people who are directly impacted
06:42 with that one tank of gas. With flying into Georgetown and back,
06:46 sometimes with our flights what we are doing
06:48 is flying supplies into peoples houses, or into villages.
06:53 Sometimes we are flying bodies even, if they don't survive.
06:57 And so, the peripheral impact that that fuel has, is really
07:02 really great. And I wish that people would
07:05 understand that more.
07:06 There are times where we are here and we run
07:08 out of money for fuel.
07:10 The community calls, asks us for flights and we have to say no.
07:14 And I get frustrated with that because to me, that's one of the
07:18 main points why we are here. And if we run out of fuel,
07:22 then we're not here to be able to complete the mission,
07:24 that we are here for.
07:25 The airplanes fly 3 to 4 days a week on average I would say;
07:31 if we have...if we launch a flight it may end up being
07:37 an average one would probably 3 to... 3 to 5 legs in a flight
07:43 where we might pick up patients in one place
07:45 another patient somewhere else, and then, after we take them out
07:48 perhaps you take patients back home to another village.
07:51 So it usually involves several stops. So if the plane gets a
07:56 a 10:00 o'clock call to do a medivac, the plane is probably
07:59 not going to be back till about 5 o'clock in the evening
08:01 if it can make it back that same day at all. Usually if you
08:05 get called to do a flight, you'll probably end up flying
08:07 between 3 and 5 hours in order to complete all the things that
08:10 we tie into that flight.
08:11 Shortly after they finish fueling the planes the chief
08:14 pilot, Jud Wickwire gets a call for an emergency medi-vac.
08:18 In situations like these, the pilots don't have a lot of time
08:21 to waste. Since the plane is already fueled,
08:24 all he has to do it grab his pre-packed flight bag.
08:28 Jud now needs to prepare the plane for his patient.
08:31 He removes one of the seats and lays down a foam pad.
08:34 Before every flight, the pilots inspect the plane thoroughly.
08:38 They look at the prop, the wings, tail, breaks, oil,
08:42 and fuel.
08:43 They want to make certain the plane is in prime condition
08:45 for the skies before they let any passenger climb aboard.
08:49 Next Jud must call in his flight plan.
08:52 He must call air traffic control in Georgetown and inform
08:55 them that he'll be in the skies and that he intends to fly into
08:57 fly into the Ogle airport. This helps keep track of planes
09:01 as well as prevents mid air collisions
09:04 ... that's air traffic control and every flight, you have to
09:08 file a flight plan, simple as that. They need to know that
09:11 you are in the air, so they can advise other traffic.
09:14 With all his preparations finished, Jud is finally ready
09:18 to take off toward Baramita to pick up his emergency patient
09:22 Jud has traveled this route many times, and the AWA mission team
09:25 has been working with the village of Baramita
09:27 for some time now.
09:29 They have developed a trusting relationship together and have
09:32 directly impacted many in this village.
09:34 There is a tischow in a village. A tischow means chief or captain
09:39 or leader in a village and they call them tischows.
09:41 And every village has them. There is a village of Baramita,
09:46 that when we first started coming here, they said,
09:48 You know what? You can come here and you can fly us out,
09:51 but we don't want anything to do with the religion.
09:53 And now that we've been doing...flying for them, and
09:56 some health seminars, they've begged us to come and live there
10:00 And we've even started building a house there.
10:02 Well the other day, the tischow got very very sick.
10:07 Well I learned to fly in British Columbia, in a place called
10:10 Squamish which is a small community, but it's right in the
10:13 mountains. And it's where I learned to fly, in the mountains
10:16 And that's in British Columbia. And that was actually
10:19 30 years ago. And in that 30 years, I've flown every year,
10:25 and I actually don't think I've gone more then 3 or 4 months
10:28 without flying at all in that in that period of time.
10:31 There are a lot of differences flying here to the States,
10:34 but honestly, where I've done most of my flying in northern
10:37 British Columbia, northern Canada, ummm It's actually not
10:39 that much different, obviously its hotter, but its not...
10:42 ... You deal with the same kind of circumstances, with limited
10:47 communication, limited weather reporting remote airstrips,
10:52 a lot of, flying over a lot of inhospitable terrain.
10:55 When you're flying in the continental US for the most part
11:00 if you're flying at a decent altitude, you can almost be
11:02 within flying distance of an airport, almost for the
11:04 entire content, or a decent place to land. Whereas here,
11:07 and for the most part we're used to flying in British Columbia,
11:12 once your airborne, once you're out range of the airport
11:14 that you took off from, there might not be another until you
11:18 reach your destination.
11:19 (Music)
11:22 Very few of these villages have constant reliable electricity,
11:26 or current, as the Guyanese call it. Therefore it is very
11:29 very difficult to medically treat and provide care to
11:32 to someone who has critical needs.
11:35 Often times, in order to save their lives, patients are flown
11:38 to the hospital in Georgetown, where they can receive
11:42 a higher level of care.
11:43 The patient I'm picking up, is the captain,
11:45 or as they call them, the Tischow of the village.
11:47 And I don't know, exactly what happened or why but he's kind of
11:50 elderly, frail man, but he has apparently attacked and beaten.
11:53 And they said this morning he lost consciousness.
11:55 So they call us call us here about an hour ago and said
11:57 we should come up so I don't know exact conditions.
12:00 We are waiting for him. They will bring him
12:01 out of the clinic here in a minute.
12:02 As Jud waits for his patient, he tries to gather more
12:06 information about the patient's condition
12:07 from family members and friends.
12:10 However, no one seems to have very much information
12:12 and the information they do give, seems conflicting.
12:16 It's a puzzling situation and no one seems to have
12:19 a straight answer.
12:20 Alright ummm... He's in the clinic?
12:24 Ok, alright, let's make a space here for him.
12:27 It's a very unusual occurrence for an elder let alone a Tischow
12:31 to be a victim of domestic violence.
12:34 They will sometime have some drinking and between the
12:37 younger men, sometimes they will get out their cutlasses.
12:39 Machetes, and cut each other up. You know that's more
12:42 between the younger guys.
12:44 I don't know why something would happen to an elderly
12:47 You know an elder in a village That's... I don't know if
12:49 I've seen that happen before.
12:51 So I don't know what the explanation is.
12:53 It's important that Jud has the information about the patient's
12:56 condition so he can pass it along to the doctors
12:59 in Georgetown.
13:01 Finally the patient appears from the clinic. He is unable to walk
13:04 and is floating in and out of consciousness.
13:07 So the village members carry him out to the plane.
13:10 It's an uncomfortable transport but in these conditions you have
13:14 to make the best of the situation you are in.
13:16 (Men talking)
13:18 (rumbling noises)
13:29 Alright, we'll bring him right over. How are you doing man?
13:34 Now that the Tischow is in the plane Jud begins to strap him in
13:38 There will be one other person traveling on today's flight.
13:41 He will accompany the patient to the hospital.
13:44 Unfortunately however, since the aircraft is so small,
13:47 often times family members can not travel
13:50 with their injured relatives.
13:52 Before the Tischow leaves, he calls over one of his family
13:55 members, takes off his ring, and gives it to him.
13:58 This action shows that the Tischow himself knows that he is
14:02 very sick and he wants his family to have his ring
14:06 should anything happen.
14:08 The Tischow is an important figure in the village,
14:11 and many people are worried for his well being.
14:13 Many of the villagers come and wish him well while Jud goes
14:16 to the clinic and speaks with the med-ex to get the final word
14:19 on the patient's condition.
14:21 Most villages do not have doctors, but have med-exes
14:25 which are comparable to a nurse practitioner.
14:28 Finally it's time to leave and Jud prepares the plane again.
14:32 But before they can take off, Jud offers a word of prayer
14:35 and asks for a safe flight and healing for the Tischow.
14:39 We ask You especially be wit this patient. May Your healing
14:41 hand be upon him and be with his family too.
14:43 In Jesus name, Amen!
14:46 As Jud taxies and takes off towards Georgetown
14:49 nothing is visible but the jungle canopy.
14:51 It would have been impossible to get this patient out of the
14:54 jungle in time had it not been for the air craft.
14:57 Doing a medical evacuation out the jungle, is important to
15:02 a person that is ill and time is of a critical factor.
15:05 As Jud flies towards Georgetown he must keep
15:08 an eye on the weather.
15:09 Turbulent weather, rain and wind seem to be in the forecast
15:13 for today. All of the added turbulence make this trip
15:16 to the hospital even more uncomfortable
15:18 for the ailing patient.
15:22 However Jud an experienced pilot, still manages
15:26 to safely navigate through the skies.
15:28 Apparently he's been attacked for some reason,
15:30 I can't explain why. I didn't understand how that would happen
15:32 or why that would happen. He'd been beaten to some degree.
15:35 But it had been almost two weeks before, but he had...
15:39 when they called us, he had taken a turn for the worse.
15:43 And he actually, kind of almost lost consciousness
15:46 or gone nearly into unconsciousness.
15:47 So they called us, but of course they don't know what the
15:50 problem is. And that's the difficult part out here.
15:54 How do you decide whether someone just has some other
15:58 passing ailment or something critical that they
16:00 need to go out to get treatment for.
16:01 When they begin to reach the out skirts of Georgetown
16:04 Jud must be in constant communication with Olga
16:07 the airport he intends to land in.
16:10 This air space is the most heavily congested and it's
16:12 important to be aware of your surroundings and share with
16:15 other pilots your exact position to prevent any collisions.
16:19 As he reaches the airport and touches down on the paved runway
16:22 Jud is relieved that he has safely transported
16:24 another patient.
16:26 Now that they have arrived he can transfer the patient to the
16:29 local medical facility and he can focus
16:32 on his next set of patients.
16:34 But as he arrives, Jud looks around and doesn't see anyone
16:37 waiting to pick up the Tischow to take him to the hospital.
16:40 The drop off area is completely empty and there are no
16:44 ambulances or paramedics to be found.
16:46 Communication is a big challenge here in Guyana, and it seems
16:50 that once again, a message did not get delivered to the
16:53 ambulance services.
16:55 So Pilot Jud makes a few phone calls and tries to find his
16:58 patient a safe ride to the hospital.
17:01 Jud can't wait here for too long because he is constantly
17:05 racing against the clock. There is a no fly rule after dark and
17:09 he does not want to be stuck here over night,
17:11 especially since he has 2 other patients lined up for today.
17:15 So he must quickly find a way to get the Tischow to the hospital.
17:21 Finally a taxi arrives and they must carefully pull the patient
17:25 out from the plane and put him in the vehicle.
17:27 The patient is in a lot of pain since he has just spent he past
17:31 hour in turbulent skies, so they must try and be extra gentle
17:35 with him as they try to relocate him into the taxi.
17:39 (Music)
17:49 Unfortunately, since this isn't an ambulance, there is nowhere
17:52 for the Tishow to lie down so he must be placed in a seat
17:56 and sit up from this point on.
17:58 (Music)
18:00 As the Tischow heads off straight for the hospital,
18:03 Jud and the entire AWA team can breathe a prayer of thanks that
18:08 they were again able to safely deliver another patient
18:11 and save another life.
18:13 Jud was able to medi-vac him out, and it turns out he had
18:17 appendicitis and it had ruptured so we were very very
18:21 happy to help with him.
18:23 He's been very instrumental in helping us and very supportive
18:26 of us and so we were very happy that we could help him with that
18:30 Turns out, we got him into the hospital and he needed an
18:33 emergency appendectomy. So certainly left too long,
18:39 he certainly would have died. If left in that community
18:42 without getting the treatment he needed.
18:44 (Music)
18:49 While in Georgetown, Jud must also refuel the plane.
18:52 Since this is their only way of getting fuel, it's important
18:55 that every time he or any of the pilots fly to Ogle,
18:59 they purchase fuel. The amount of fuel they can purchase
19:02 is dependent on the amount of funding they receive from donors
19:05 in North America. They aren't always able to fill up the plane
19:09 but have to keep a watchful eye on their funding.
19:12 So literally we have to use the air plane as a camel.
19:15 We fill it up, we fly it out here, we siphon it out into
19:18 jerry cans and into barrels and then we put it back in
19:21 in as we need it. We always keep a minimum in the plane just to
19:24 get us to Georgetown and that's the way we do it.
19:27 There is just no other option.
19:28 Today they are able to purchase 211 liters of fuel,
19:32 roughly 50 gallons.
19:34 Our return flights or any flights we have extra seats,
19:37 again we have this list of people to call and by priority
19:40 if they called, and of course we prioritize by medical reason
19:44 we will try and place them on the flights
19:48 Nobody pays for these flights of course, there's no charge
19:51 to any of the people who are flying, so they can rely on that
19:55 Jud doesn't have much time. His new patients have arrived
19:58 at the airport. The AWA teams always makes a
20:01 great effort to never waste a flight.
20:04 Anytime they have an emergency flight, they have a standby list
20:07 with patients that are ready and waiting to travel.
20:10 There is a project that was started in Canada that we have
20:14 greatly appreciated. Someone started sending us
20:16 beanie babies. So if we fly a child who is sick unto the
20:21 hospital we give them a little tiny beanie baby.
20:24 They can just take that to the hospital and carry it with them
20:27 It's been a...it's been fun to give those out.
20:30 Because you know that little beanie baby will probably be
20:33 the only stuffed animal that child will ever own.
20:35 And so that's a really special thing. And we alway tell them
20:37 this is a gift from Canada or this is a gift from the States.
20:40 Flying can often be a scary event for the Guyanese who
20:44 aren't used to motorized vehicles, So Jud offers a small
20:48 stuffed toy to hopefully comfort the children while in the air.
20:52 This mother has flown in because she had a complication during
20:55 labor, and now she is returning home, back to Mabarauma
20:59 with her new baby boy, who she names Leroy.
21:02 (Music)
21:09 The second patient for this flight is a 3 year old girl with
21:12 a heart defect. She unfortunately was born with
21:15 this condition and must receive medical treatment
21:17 every couple of weeks.
21:19 In order to live, she needs an operation that unfortunately,
21:22 they do not perform in Guyana.
21:24 The AWA team have flown this patient many times before.
21:28 These are going back home to Mabaruma. So we got the new born
21:32 The challenge for them, is that the only option is for them to
21:34 travel on the boat which is a 24 hour travel journey
21:38 on the high seas, which is open sea anyway,
21:41 can be quite rough, for crowded boat. No facilities.
21:44 So it's always nice to get them a one hour trip back
21:47 instead of the boat.
21:49 You were in for some treatment right? Yes.
21:51 For yourself? For the child? Yes
21:55 And what kind of problem is she having? She having a
21:57 heart disease. She need to have actually open heart surgery.
22:01 There is a little girl here who was born
22:03 with a hole in her heart.
22:05 And several weeks ago, I was able to fly her to Georgetown,
22:08 because she was getting worse and so she went to the hospital
22:14 and the doctor said that she needed surgery over in Cuba.
22:18 They have a working relationship with Cuba so a lot of the major
22:21 surgeries are flown out there and the family
22:25 didn't have any money
22:27 to do this because what happens, the government will pay for half
22:30 of that surgery, but the family has to come up
22:31 with the other half. And the other half is about 500 US
22:35 and of course they don't have that much.
22:36 So, the father told the mother, the father was still here in
22:40 Mabaruma, talked to the mother on the phone and said, well just
22:43 bring her back and if she lives she lives, if she dies, she dies
22:45 It was so sad in the end, so we actually have a fund of someone
22:51 who set up some money that could be used for some of these
22:54 medical emergencies.
22:57 And so we called her and we said we would be happy to pay for the
23:00 other half, but then the doctor decided that it wasn't
23:03 proper timing for the girl. She was getting sicker.
23:07 I didn't understand all the details but for whatever reason,
23:10 the daughter, she wasn't ready yet to have that surgery.
23:13 And so just the other day then Jud brought her back here to
23:17 Mabaruma. But the offer is still out there. So as soon she's
23:21 ready for that surgery, then we'll be able to fly to
23:23 Georgetown and then we'll pay to have her surgery.
23:26 As normal protocol for all the AWA pilots, Jud prays before his
23:30 flight. He asks for blessings of safely and healing on their
23:34 return trip home.
23:35 ... This little newborn baby going back to his family
23:37 also most especially this little girl with the problem with her
23:41 heart. Just ask that Your healing hand will be upon her
23:43 provide opportunities for her to heal, in Jesus' name - Amen
23:46 Jud has had a busy day, but it's just halfway through. He must
23:51 now safely navigate the skies again and return everyone home
23:55 to Mabaruma.
23:56 Being here for the longer term, and developing relationships
23:59 with people and that ...that all comes down to trust.
24:04 And they know that we've been here for this many years and
24:08 we're still going to be here when they need us in the future
24:10 so when you have someone with say a chronic condition that
24:13 needs treatment and we could take them back and forth so they
24:16 don't have to spend months and months living away from their
24:18 families. And... trust to know that sometimes things go wrong
24:25 and people, people sometimes go out for treatment and they die.
24:28 And that's a fear that people have, of course and their fear
24:33 is such that they may not send their family members out for
24:36 treatment because they may die, and if they die they may not
24:41 come back. Or if they go for treatment they may not even be
24:43 able to come back come back for months at a time. So knowing
24:45 that we've been here and that we've taken people out, and we
24:49 bring them back and sometimes we bring back people that have died
24:51 but even that, gives them confidence in us because it
24:54 shows that we care enough to bring back even the people who
25:00 died so that they can have a proper burial
25:02 with their families. And that, that's a very meaningful thing
25:06 to people out here something that they don't get
25:08 from anywhere else.
25:11 Another ministry that the team incorporates in their flights is
25:14 offering religious literature for the passengers to read and
25:17 take home with them. On the hour long flight, many pick up the
25:21 magazines and read about the love of our Lord. Soon enough
25:25 the familiar sights of their hometown Mabaruma
25:29 come into view.
25:38 Once on the ground everyone is able to disembark. Now that
25:41 everyone is safely on the ground the AWA team can call this a
25:46 successful day. They balanced fuel, medi-vaced out
25:50 an unconscious village leader and delivered 2 babies back
25:53 to their home village.
25:55 But this isn't anything unusual for this mission team. In fact
25:59 this is a very regular day in the mission field of Guyana.
26:03 And the entire AWA team is thankful that they are able to
26:07 minister and that they had enough fuel funding to make
26:10 these flights today possible.
26:13 Any day that I can come home at the end of the day and know that
26:20 even for one person, adult or child, something that I've been
26:26 able to do because of God given skills to me, that can make a
26:30 difference in their life, then that day is a good day
26:34 and that's fulfilling for me.
26:36 (music)
26:41 Fuel equals saved lives! And a tank of fuel goes a long way
26:45 One tank of fuel gives us 4 hours of flight time
26:48 And in that 4 hour period of time we could evacuate
26:52 somewhere between ten patients. We can transport pastors in for
26:56 meetings. Help the church with local Bible work that needs to
27:00 be done. Four hours of flying is tremendous
27:03 what we can do with an airplane.
27:04 If I can leave you with one thing, after watching this video
27:07 with regard aviation ministry is, fuel equals saved lives.
27:12 If we have fuel we can go out and we can save lives
27:15 not only physically, but for eternity.
27:19 Jesus said in the great Gospel Commission in Matthew 28:19-20
27:22 that we are to go into all the world!
27:25 Well, Adventist World Aviation is dedicated to doing just that!
27:29 There are between six and a half and seven billion people
27:32 now living on planet earth. And two billion of them have never
27:36 heard of Jesus. Of the two billion, eight hundred million
27:40 of them can only be reached like means like aircraft.
27:43 or through aviation support. We go into the un-reached areas
27:48 of the world.
27:49 What we find when we go in there we find death and disease and
27:52 despair. What we bring them is hope, health and life.
27:58 And a great Gospel message that Jesus loves them. That there is
28:01 somebody out there, who does care.
28:04 They often ask, why do you do this?
28:06 We say, because Jesus loves you!
28:09 And so the message that we bring them is absolute hope.
28:12 Since it's inception, 1995, AWA, or Adventist World Aviation
28:17 has been able to relieve over thirty five epidemics.
28:20 We've literally flown millions of missionary miles.
28:24 We are relieving the pain and suffering of those who live
28:26 in these remote parts of the world. Helping them.
28:29 Will you pray for us! We need prayer more than anything else!
28:33 If you like more information please contact this station
28:36 3 Angels Broadcasting Network Or call the number on the screen
28:40 Thanks for watching!
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