Supplying missionaries with necessities can become interesting when a pilot is gone for a month from the Philippines.
Missionaries David and Helen Johanson buy supplies for missionaries serving in rural areas in the Philippines. Their regular pilot is gone for the month of October, so all of their supply flights are scheduled for a four-day period when they'll have a substitute pilot from JAARS, a missionary aviation program with Wycliffe.
They have "eight lots of groceries, eight fruit and veggie orders, eight meat orders, as well as all the other things that have been ordered like hardware, medicines, kerosene and petrol," Helen writes.
Typically the deliveries are stretched out over a full month. But with a four-day window to get all of the supplies to the missionaries in tribal locations, everything has to go and it must all be correct.
Aviation coverage is also crucial for health reasons. In the event of a medical emergency in the tribe, missionaries often depend upon a pilot to fly them to a hospital.
Please pray that the missionaries the Johansons support will stay healthy, that no evacuations are needed, that each order gets to the correct place and that the weather during those four days is clear for flying.
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