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December 2010
Currently missionary candidate members ofServant Wings
(www.servantwings.org)
Our Website (www.reednewsletter.blogspot.com)
We've made significant progress in the past year! Changinfocus
from Pilot/Mechanic to Pilot/IT (Informational
Technology)definitely a step in the right direction. Both Eric and
I feel a peace excitement about the change.
This past year Eric's taken some IT courses at PCC and fllittle
more for Servant Wings to help build his flight hours. He neahas
enough high performance flight hours and has all the requiredings
completed. This January he's starting a database course to
fursharpen his IT skills. When we get closer to April, he'll do a
flightview course with Servant Wings to make sure he's ready for
the Mtechnical evaluation.
Our MAF technical evaluation is April 18-29, 2011. Durithis
time, Eric will spend a week being evaluated on his flying abi
After that they will talk with him about his current IT skills.
Meanwhile, Kristine and Jenna will be meeting with MAF staff and
getknow them. MAF will evaluate both of us to determine whether
wready and able to serve with their organization.
If they deem we are ready, they will invite us to the July
candidacy at their headquarters in Nampa, Idaho. There we will
beevaluated further, they will introduce us to areas of need and
pray us about placement overseas in one of their programs.
While we are at MAF for our technical evaluation, we
patransportation costs, food costs, flight costs (a week worth of
flyinCessna 206), and other expenses. MAF provides a place for us
to swhile we are there. The total cost for this trip should be
close to $2
Around $1800 of that is for the flight part alone! Eric's prep
courseServant Wings that he needs to complete before the tech eval
also around $1500-2000 in flight time. That makes our goal close to
$4
If youd like to partner with us in prayer or through finato help
meet our goal by April, please read the, How to Join withMinistry
section on the back of this newsletter.
Dear Family and Friends,Its been a while since our last
newsletter and much has hap-
pened! This year were going to change the format of our
newslettersso we can share with you our hearts and help give you an
idea of howwe hope to serve with MAF in the future. Since our
switch in focusfrom Pilot/Mechanic to Pilot/IT, many of you have
asked what does aPilot/IT person do?
The IT specialist is a sort of "Jack of all trades" in that
therole looks different wherever you go depending on the needs of
theMAF location. Many IT specialists help maintain internet
connec-tivity, update e-mail systems, establish satellite internet
and phonecommunications, maintain power supply sources,
troubleshoot com-puter problems, install upgrades, link missionary
computers to radiosfor e-mail..etc. IT specialists are key to
helping missionaries be ableto communicate not only with each
other, but with family and friendsback home. This has drastically
changed communication from yester-year when all you could do is
write letters or phone home from a ma-or city.
This month wed like to highlight
an MAF couple that is currentlyserving in Papua, Indonesia .
Theirnames are Brent and MelaniePalmer. They live there with
theirthree children. Brent serves as anIT specialist and a pilot
(amongother things) and Melanie is aTeacher. Theyve served withMAF
for around 12 years.
Through his IT work, Brent has tutored several IT
interns,oversaw short term IT staff, upgraded e-mail systems and
imple-mented two satellite internet connections. As a pilot hes
logged manyhours flying people and supplies in and out of the
jungle. Most re-
cently he had the opportunity to fly in a missionary couple to a
remotepeople group called the Bayono. They are one of the last
unreachedtribes in the world! The couple he flew in hopes to
encourage andequip two local evangelists. They eventually hope to
translate the bi-ble into the Bayonos native language. Amazing! He
flew them backto town to gather supplies and will take them back to
the villagewhen they are ready.
Brent was also privileged to do most of the flying for a
biblededication ceremony in the village of Koropun. A missionary
couplespent 15 years translating the New Testament into the
villages nativelanguage of Kimyal and Brent flew in the completed
copies of theNew Testament! There was much cheering into the
village becausenow they had a version of the bible in their own
language! Brent was
honored at the ceremony because he played a vital role by being
apilot for the translators. Without MAF, this would have been
muchharder for the translators.
This is just a snapshot of the daily work this MAF mission-ary
couple does. As you can see, this specialized ministry is
vitallyimportant because it helps facilitate ministry in so many
differentplaces! If you want to check out more on the Palmer
Family, you cando so by going to their MAF website at:
www.maf.org/palmer.
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Currently missionary candidate members ofServant Wings
(www.servantwings.org)
Our Website (www.reednewsletter.blogspot.com)
This year has been a very blessed year in the Reedhousehold.
Kristine was able to teach history and math for acouple of months
(January-March) at Stayton Christian Schooland loved it. She also
had the opportunity (March-June) to tutorow income middle school
students (primarily of Russian back-ground) in math through the
Sylvan Learning Center.
Eric was able to complete a few more IT
(InformationalTechnology) courses through Portland Community
College andhe really enjoyed them. He finally got the Hiperbipe's
annualnspection completed in June (thanks to a dear friend/flight
me-chanic) and flew it a few times since then.
We'd love to introduce you to the newest member of our
family.Her name is Jenna-vieve Elizabeth Reedand she was born
Sep-
tember 12, 2010 at7:55am. She weighed7lbs 10 oz and was 21inches
long. Parent-hood has been quitethe transition for us, butwe feel
so blessed tohave little Jenna in ourlives. She's almost fourmonths
old. She smilesand coos all the time.She has pretty goodhead
control, but not
much arm strength so she can't hold herself up yet. Jennaoves to
be held facing out so she can see the world and tries towalk
wherever she can with our help. She's very adventurousand
independent, which should serve her well on the missionfield with
us!
We would love to talk with you about our passion for Christ and
how we hope to utilize our love of aviation to serveHim in the
future. You can contact us via e-mail at:
[email protected] or by telephone at 503-949-1714.
Also check out our website at http://reednewsletter.blogspot.com
for more frequent updates and information.
Reed Family NOTFFs
December 2010 (Page 2)
Servant Wings Update
(Notice to Family and Friends)
Contact Us! We would love to hear from you!
We are working hard to save up towards Servant Wingstechnical
evaluation prep and the MAF technical evaluationcosts and hope to
have enough when it gets closer to April. you would like to join
with us financially to help reach our go$4,000 by April, you can
give a tax-deductible donation via tServant Wings web page at:
http://www.servantwings.orgdonate.html
(Click on our name under missionary candidate)
If youd like to sign up to receivee-mailsregarding prayer
requests, e-mail us at:[email protected] start
sending them to you!
This summer we helped at a few events through Servant WingsWe
helped at a Common Ground event in Vancouvers Esther Shpark and
Eric flew people at the Clark County All Church Picnic in172 and
206 airplanes. Eric really enjoys taking new people up to and
giving them a real experience in a small aircraft.
Servant Wings has now moved! It is now based at the Aurora
Aport. They have a larger hangar that includes an office space and
abathroom. We are really blessed to know the men and women of
thorganization. Theyve helped us a lot with guidance and wisdom
aour journey to becoming missionary aviators.
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