I don’t want to leave you discouraged with some of the challenges I mentioned.

We’ve also been on the front lines, have seen some God sized wins in our ministry, and I wanted to pass this on so we can celebrate together.

One of the big ones was an opportunity to evacuate several missionaries and also some local families that were fleeing from the chaos in Khartoum. We were able to pick them up right near the border and bring them down home or down into Uganda, where they caught international flight and were able to arrive home safely.

Another big win was the event that happened in March. We called it Mabawa Ya Injili, which is Swahili for Wings of the Gospel and using the attractiveness of airplanes – everybody wants to come and be up close and personal with airplanes. About 35 churches came represented by missions, pastors or senior pastors and the bishops gave their blessing for this to happen. So it’s very encouraging to see them coming here. Some firsthand reports from Kenyan missionaries and Kenyan pastors that work and some really remote areas. I’m excited to be able to be, you know, a small part of that just hosting that event so more churches could catch the vision of sending missionaries or sending teams out to encourage missionaries in this area. Very few Nairobians know what life is like outside the city when you talk about the desert up in the north or to the east or South Sudan. In fact, we’re hoping to repeat an event next year and this time we’re going to partner with other parts of AIM who are working on mobilizing churches as well. So I’m excited to see where God takes us.

Another win was an RMS Trip (Remote Missionary Support). This is where we send some of our team on trips to support missionaries on the ground. And usually it’s been technical assistance, things like putting solar wiring up and panels and getting electricity in someone’s house. In fact, I was on a trip back in March and we were able to switch the lights on after about four days or five days on the ground. This is the first time this Kenyan missionary couple had ever had electricity since they moved up there seven years ago. So it was really exciting to be a part of that.

But this time, just back in August, we sent a team that wasn’t technical, instead it was counselors from our sister department called AIM Care and they went to do a team debrief for a team that had tragically lost one of their missionaries who passed away unexpectedly. But it was so cool to be able to see AIM Care and AIM AIR working together to make that trip happen and be able to do a debrief on location in the remote parts of South Sudan.

Finally, one of the unexpected wins that I didn’t think I would never hear myself saying. But it’s been opportunities to develop relationships with other people in the aviation industry here and and especially with the Kenyan government. It’s been something that God’s grown in my heart to be a part of. And the meetings are kind of long and interesting. It’s been a chance for me to represent not only AM AIR or mission work, but also the Gospel as well. And I just really enjoy that opportunity and inviting some of my Kenyan coworkers to come along and be able to have a chance to share as well.

By the time you get this video, hopefully there’ll be one more win we can share. Right now we’re in the process of organizing food relief to go to eastern Kenya. There’s been about 7000 people in this community where we’ve had a missionary for about 36 years now, they’ve been cut off from roads because of El Nino and all the extremely high amounts of rain have eroded a lot of the roads there. We’re hoping to deliver about five tons of food by the end of this week so that they have nutrition as a community. And if the weather patterns don’t improve, then we might have to do another five tons later on too. Hopefully the food delivery will happen without too many problems. But I wanted to give you a preemptive win to celebrate with us.

Thanks so much. We appreciate you praying for us and want you to be encouraged by some of these reports.