As I mentioned, we’re moving past the financial challenges that we had 3 years ago. This is a huge praise item! This year AIM AIR will be on really good footing financially. But we’ve had other challenges this year. I think God gives us just a little bit at a time, which I appreciate.

One of our big challenges this year was some struggles with the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority. We have an avionics repair station that allows us to do electrical work on our aircraft. It’s approved by the FAA. However, we’re not getting approvals this year from the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority. We’ve had some misunderstandings and disagreements about how to move forward. We could really use your prayer for wisdom on this. It’s left us high and dry as far as being able to fix our aircraft with electrical issues. We’re having to contract that out to another shop, but we’d love to be able to do it in our hangar again.

The other challenge is one of our Cessna Caravans was struck by lightning about four or five months ago in South Sudan. Fortunately everybody’s okay. We had the engine sent to Canada to the manufacturer. They just gave us a bill. It’s about $410,000. We’re trying to figure out what insurance is going to cover. We will hopefully be able to get some of that help from the insurance company, but we need prayer as far as the best way forward if we overhaul the engine or perhaps change it out for a different engine altogether. Those are some of the challenges we face for this year.