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Mission Aviation Fellowship THE MAGAZINE OF MAF SOUTH AFRICA
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Betty Greene, Fearless and Very Feminine.
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A Mom’s Experience on the Mission Field.
From the CEO We have been so blessed by remembering the Words of Christ in Acts 1:8. How wonderful it is to be promised a miraculous gift, the Holy Spirit, so that we may be empowered by God Himself to complete our task. We are privileged to send people to accomplish the call on their life and we want to enable more people to go. Join our community and use your passion to extend the Kingdom of God. As we have just celebrated Women’s Day, we have chosen to honour the MAF women we know and have known. In remembrance of Betty Greene, we include an extract from her book, Flying High. Elaine Townsend describes her well as, “…fearless, very feminine and a real lady with a heart for missions...” Despite many odds working against her, she said yes to God’s call and saw many people come to Christ. Michelle Venter reminds us that God doesn’t call the equipped but He equips the called. As we share stories from Papua New Guinea and Kenya we are reminded that no cultural norm or perception is too big for God to shatter. Finally, you’ll see our Hero Team that is helping to make it possible to reach the “end of the earth”. Each role is integral, as is each part of the body. I’d like to thank you for the part that you play in MAF, enabling us and others to be a witness for Christ. Maxine Holman CEO of MAF SA and Flying for Life (Our Local Initiative)
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“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:8 Part of our vision for MAF is to believe the promise and follow the command given by Jesus in Acts 1:8. We want to see more missionaries sent to witness Christ at home in South Africa and to the ends of the earth. MAF has programs around the world based in countries where some people have not yet heard the Good News. There is a great need. The harvest is ripe, but the workers are few. By working together with you and your local community, for example your church, your child’s school or your prayer group, we can achieve so much more. Churches play a vital role in our work. They are able to pray for more missionaries, for those we serve and for those serving; they can help inform people about the opportunity to work as an MAF pilot, engineer, finance manager or administrator; they can adopt an MAF missionary or go on a mission’s trip to Limpopo. Every person in the church can get involved with MAF to witness Christ. Meet our Hero Team (page 12) and see the different ways you can contribute and be part of the MAF Community. Schools are part of the MAF community. We believe it is important to keep the younger generations enthusiastic about sharing their faith with others. So, we have collaborated with North West Christian School. For years they have helped show the love of Christ with MAF in Limpopo. And more recently we have connected them with our missionary families in Papua New Guinea. After our visit to PNG we saw the importance of keeping our missionary children connected to their home country, whilst, at the same time educating local South African children about the life of missionary children.
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Betty Greene, Fearless and Very Feminine Story by Betty Greene with Dietrich Buss | Photo Betty in front of the Grumman Duck
A Elizabeth Everts “Betty” Greene was born in Seattle in 1920. She developed an early love of aviation and, like many young people of the day, was fascinated by the adventures of Charles Lindbergh, Admiral Byrd, and Amelia Earhart.
s a teenager, she took flying lessons and even flew a solo flight. Betty longed for travel and adventure, and when a trusted older friend suggested that she use her flying for Christian mission work, Betty “leaped for joy at the thrilling thought of combining flying with my love for God.” Betty Greene began her professional aviation career by serving with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) during World War II. She flew several kinds of military planes during the war and did experimental work on highaltitude flights. After the war, Betty helped found the Christian Airmen’s Missionary Fellowship, later called Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF). The following is an extract from her book, Flying High. Get a glimpse of the opposition she met and her unreserved determination to face it with faith in Christ, knowing the calling he had for her. After protracted delays, I arrived in Lima, Peru at the end of July 1946. On my flight from Mexico City to the Panama Canal Zone I spent a night in Guatemala City and flew on to Ancon on the Pacific. En Route, as frequently happens, I was recognised as a pilot and invited up to the cockpit to do some flying. I did
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not tell the flight crew I was a pilot but apparently someone did, or perhaps at check-in it was noted on my passport. One of the pilots has been an instructor for the WASP at Sweetwater, which made the trip somewhat of a reunion and gave a good feeling. At Ancon I stayed in the famous old Hotel Tivoli which former President ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt had built at the turn of the century. A room and bath cost me $2.75 and a turkey dinner cost $1.25. I had very little cash on me at the time. Our departure was delayed almost a week and I decided to skip some meals so that I would have money in hand upon arrival at Lima. While in the Canal Zone I followed up on a call which Mr. Townsend (founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators) had suggested. I went to see an officer in charge of the Foreign Liquidation Commission’s office for Latin America. We talked about aircraft available and about the Grumman Duck which I expected to be flying soon. He had not known my flying experience nor did he make an inquiry. His response to me, however, indicated that he placed little stock in my flying ability and suggested a pilot who could replace me. He said that he was in touch with
Betty was also an engineer, here she is repairing the plane in South Sudan.
fliers who would do the work for $750 per month plus expenses. He obviously had no idea that I was being paid $50 per month, nor that my experience fully qualified me to fly the Duck. It has been my observation that military men who had contact with the WASP had a good attitude toward and showed respect for women pilots. Most men in uniform at that time just assumed flying was not something that women should do. Mr. Townsend and the MAF men, on the other hand, showed great confidence in my abilities. I knew that God had called me to do this work and was ready to proceed; nevertheless, it was a blow to my ego whenever I encountered people who let it be known they had no confidence in me as a woman pilot. At the official ceremony of turning the Duck over to SIL, Mr. Townsend announced the Ducks official name, Amauta, meaning, “A wise man at the service of his people”. He concluded his remarks with the words of Christ, “I have not come to be served but to serve” (see Matthew 20:28). I was eager to begin my assignment and went out to see the Duck the next morning. That afternoon I met Marine Corps General Ross Powell, chief of the
navy air mission of the United States of Peru. The Duck had been under his command. General Powell, a marine to the very core of his being, was opposed to a woman pilot flying the plane. He thought it absurd to think of my flying the ship at all, to say nothing of me crossing the Andes with it and navigating on treacherous tributaries of the Amazon River in the Peruvian rain forest. I left General Powell feeling very vulnerable, since I had never flown the Duck and needed to rely on military men under his command for information to learn its peculiarities. I must say, not for one minute did I consider the possibility of backing out of this assignment. Mr. Townsend expressed full confidence in me, for which I was grateful. I reminded myself that the Lord had brought me there to do that job and hence there was no reason to give in to bystanders‘ doubts about my fitness to fly the Duck, especially since I had the qualifications. As arranged, the next day I met to confer with Lieutenant White of the Marine Corps. When I asked if he would be flying with me to orient me to navigating the ship, he said that General Powell would not allow him to do so. He, nevertheless, was of great assistance to me and was most kind. He went over the
characteristics of the plane, but he left without giving me even a demonstration flight. Fortunately, I had a manual and studied it carefully. Having served as a WASP I knew how to take initiative. The Lord blessed me with the ability to stay cool under pressure. After rehearsing all the procedures I turned on the engine and warmed it up. The sound of the roar rejuvenated my sagging spirits. I took off alone and soon found that the awkward-looking Duck was easy to fly. By the time I came down for the landing I knew I would enjoy flying the plane. That was a good start. Betty went on to complete her assignment. She served as an MAF pilot for 16 years, flying in 12 countries and touching down in some 20 more. In the words of Chuck Bennett, President of Paraclete Mission Group and former pilot and president of MAF, “Betty Greene was…the first to fly across the Andes… the first female mission pilot and first of either gender in Mexico, Peru and Nigeria … Without a doubt, Betty Greene was the most amazing woman I’ve ever been privileged to know.”
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A Mom’s Experience on the Mission Field Story by Michelle Venter Photos by Maxine Holman and Paul Beck
T I remember being a little girl, playing “mommy-mommy” with my baby doll, having a pretend husband, cleaning my dolls house and making pretend food and having tea parties…
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his was what I dreamed of being one day when I was “big”. I can tell you that if you had told me 15 years ago, when I married Brad that I would be living in Papua New Guinea today, I probably would have cried! You see becoming a missionary wife was the last thing that I would have planned for my life but it was God’s plan for my life. Since accepting the call to MAF and then to PNG, I have felt that my call has been to be a support to Brad and to care for my children. I have come to realise that this role of mine can actually be carried out anywhere in the world. Yes, the setting may look different wherever we are but the skills needed are no different. It still requires love, patience, grace, decision making, cooking, cleaning, organising, shopping, budgeting, etc. Leaving for an unknown country like PNG, way across the Indian Ocean was one of the hardest things we have ever had to do and at the same time the best thing we have ever done. There were questions (some our own and lots from others): What about education? What about malaria? What about doctors? The cost? Will you be safe? What will you eat? When will we see you again? How long are you going for? There were lots of tears, frustrations, challenges,
and paper work. But, there was always an overwhelming sense of God’s peace through it all. So we knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that we were doing exactly what God was wanting us to do. No, this did not mean that it would be easy and plain sailing, but it did mean that God was with us in every decision that we made and in every step that we took. Often we want to see the whole picture and understand all the details, but we know according to scripture that God leads us one-step at a time. His word is a lamp (not a spotlight) to our feet. As a mom, it is easy to get caught up in worrying about our children’s needs and future. But so often I have come to remind myself that God knows. In our situation in PNG we have lived where there was no suitable school for our children to attend. I home-schooled my three children for two years. It was hard work at the time but what a blessing to me when my children look back to it with such fond memories. Now we live in a town where our children have the privilege of attending a school run by New Tribes Mission. They have lovely Christian teachers and get the opportunity to have a class with friends. This means that in a few weeks’ time I will have my first empty
Maxine Holman, CEO of MAF, with Michelle Venter and her husband Brad and their children, Nathan, Hailey and Megan.
nest as all three of my children will head out on the school bus in the mornings, leaving me on my own until lunch time. Over the years people have asked how we deal with the lack of opportunities for our children in PNG. Maybe from an outsiders perspective we do have less (or no) extra mural activities, cultural groups, sports clubs, theme parks & malls to keep us busy, but after living in PNG for seven years this has become normal for us. Despite what we might seemingly lack, God has also blessed us wherever we have lived with friends, art lessons, karate lessons, a piano teacher, mom’s groups, mountain biking, guitar groups, the beach & pets. I remember a few days before leaving South Africa seven years ago thinking that I would never have friends or things to do. WOW. God has proved me so wrong. When you ask my children where home is, they will say Goroka (the town where we live in PNG). They have grown to love the people and the country in which we live. They are international children now. Their friends come from all over the world, they love to fly in planes, they know how to travel through airports, they know at least four different currencies, they love going to the market to get stick meat and big fat bright red sausages and
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our old J75 Land Cruiser is to them, the best car in the world!
Sometimes I look at my children and wish that I could be as adaptable as them. I wish that I could just take my shoes off and enjoy playing in the mud. This season of my life has been one of the hardest for me. And despite the way that God has worked in me for the best, I still find myself resisting. It’s at times like this that I have to trust that He knows best. He knows our future and He holds us in His hands. Brad and Michelle Venter have been married for 14 years and have three children, Nathan, Hailey and Megan. They are from South Africa but are currently in Papua New Guinea serving with MAF. Brad is a pilot and also as an aeronautical engineer. Michelle is a qualified teacher and remedial teacher. Currently she is a full time mother. Outside the home she is involved with various groups.
Thank you! You have enabled us to give R70 000 toward the Cessna 208 for PNG. Let’s reach our target of R100 000 by Christmas! Thank you for your sacrificial giving. MAF AUGUST 2017
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Do Not Fear
Jennifer Wode, Women’s Ministry Trainer, and Sarome Kelly(right) attended a workshop called “Do Not Fear” which changed her life.
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volunteer stands facing a group of women while another proceeds to wrap black wool around the lady’s body until she is sufficiently bound with her arms against her side, unable to move. It’s an unconventional way to begin a Christian workshop for women, but this is no ordinary workshop to address a deep and far-reaching issue in the culture of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The topic is fear, a universal emotion, but in PNG the greatest fear is of sanguma (sorcery or magic) that leads to sickness and death. “Is this how you feel?” one of the workshop leaders asks the women as she points to the bound lady. “Do you feel tied up with your fears?” The women respond with a resounding, “Yes! Yes!” This fear will keep a woman from going outside to the toilet at night, or hanging her clothes outside for fear that a spirit may attack or put a curse on the clothes. Most are afraid to eat certain foods or go to particular places. Spirits of the dead may cause sickness and death. A few are accused of being the sorceress and suffer retaliation. Fighting a Losing Battle The “Do Not Fear” workshop grew from
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the deep concerns of a British missionary doctor, Rosie Crowter, who works at Rumginae Rural Hospital in western PNG where two MAF pilots are based. As she attempted to teach health education on TB and malaria, it became apparent that it was a losing battle as everyone believed that sickness is caused by sanguma. Mosquito nets stayed wrapped in their original packaging or were used as fishing nets. Pictures of the germs that cause TB were explained away. Sanguma put those germs there. “It raised my awareness to the fact that in PNG, health is primarily a spiritual issue,” Dr. Rosie explains, “and if you don’t address the spiritual issue, in some ways you’re wasting your time. That’s when I started my transition to Bible teaching. The only thing that could really address the issue is God and God’s Word, helping them to really know who God is so they didn’t have to fear magic because they honored and respected and feared God.” Rosie put together the “Do Not Fear” workshop especially for women, teaching what God says about sorcery and death, and that God is our defender and protector. God controls the heaven and earth, life and death. We need not fear spirits, men, or anything else.
Jennifer Wode translates for Rosie Crowter at a training session.
Jennifer and Sarome Jennifer Wode has been teaching the “Do Not Fear” workshops as well as one on “Who is God”, having been trained by Rosie. Jennifer grew up in a village 12 km up the road from Rumginae. At 15 she became a Christian but didn’t really understand who God was. Six years later when she ended up in the hospital with a serious illness, she felt God calling her back. She committed her life to God, faithfully taught Sunday School, and attended Rumginae Bible School. There she met Rosie and began helping her translate Bible verses, attending the “Do Not Fear” workshop, a lifechanging experience. Jennifer took the message back to her village, teaching the workshop and seeing women challenged and transformed. Sarome Kelly, Jennifer’s cousin who also attended the workshop, moved from a life lived in fear to a confident believer in the sovereignty of God – from fear that sanguma will kill her in her sleep to faith in God’s control over her life. “This teaching helped me,” Sarome affirms. “Now when I go to the bush, I go by myself. At night too, I go to the toilet. I sleep by myself. I practice this, and the fear goes away. God is in control of everything, even sickness. My big son died, but I don’t
A workshop in Papua New Guinea teaches women how to be free from the fear of sorcery and magic through a deeper understanding of who God is. Story and Photos By LuAnne Cadd
say a sorcerer killed him or people made magic. Even I teach my children and they practice this. They don’t live in fear. When their friends talk about sorcery and magic, they say, ‘That’s not true. Don’t talk about this in our house.’ Praise God, because He changed me.” One of her favorite Bible passages taught at the workshop is Psalm 91. “God is my protector,” Sarome says. “Fear is gone. I believe.” Changing a Culture Jennifer has been teaching the two workshops in remote areas since 2012, flying with MAF to places accessible only by boat, walking, or plane. The workshops take five days and include dramas such as the Red Sea crossing to show God’s power, or Mark 5 where Jesus casts out an evil spirit into a herd of pigs. Most important is scripture memorization that helps to reinforce the teaching when fear creeps back. Jennifer confirms that change doesn’t come overnight when a belief in sanguma’s power is so deeply ingrained in one’s culture. One key is to read the Bible and pray, she says. The other is to stay away from any talk of sorcery.
“Normally they’ll gather around the
body of the deceased and talk about who has killed this person, and is his body moving, and all those kind of spirit practices,” Rosie says. “But one of the men commented that the women who had attended the course Jennifer taught were behaving differently, standing back and not getting involved in this magic talk because they believed the teaching about God being in control of life and death.” “When they are discussing sorcery and magic, I just keep away,” Jennifer says. “I’ll be there sharing the Word of God, but I don’t stay long. I don’t want my ears to hear.” For Rosie, seeing people understand God’s word and practice it in their lives is deeply satisfying. “Jennifer is one of the most encouraging people, just seeing her commitment and her love for teaching, and seeing the impact of what she teaches on other people. That’s what I came to do – equip PNGers to change their own people. I love the fact that she does the workshops without me. That’s exactly what I was aiming at – for them to know the Bible well enough to teach it effectively.” A Key Part MAF has supported the health-related work of Rumginae Rural Hospital since it was born in the 1960s, currently managed
by the indigenous Evangelical Church of PNG, and now that support includes the Women’s Ministry workshops and other training courses in remote communities such as one on ‘Marriage and Love in the Family’ for both men and women. “MAF takes us to the trainings, so they are a very key part,” Rosie explains. “I write books and MAF transports those books from Hagen to Rumginae, and then takes them out to people through the western province. Nine of our health work places are only accessible by plane, and we often do the training in those same places because they have airstrips. It’s a crucial part of our work.” “This message is bringing big change in the lives of the women,” Jennifer says. “I just want to say thank you to MAF for helping us take the gospel out to these very remote areas.” We are free At the end of the “Do Not Fear” workshop, the same volunteer is again bound in a rope of black wool. This time Jennifer cuts the rope with a bush knife and says, “This knife is like the Word of God. It cuts through our fears and we are free.”
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Eradicating Myths that Keep Women in Bondage Story and Photos by Katie Machell
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ong-term MAF partners Hennie and Becca Marais have lived in the village of Olorte in southwestern Kenya since 2009, and are committed to serving the Maasai people of the area through their organisation RedTribe. Recently, Christiaan Haak flew teams of young people from one of the Marais sending churches, St Paul’s in west London; one such group flew on 5Y-MAE to visit them. Becca planned to get the team involved with RedTribe Beadwork, an income generating project which helps local women support their families. Also on the flight, she had been busy purchasing beads in Nairobi, and so had plenty of sorting, labelling and packing that needed to be done. The ministry has been growing. One of the biggest challenges facing Maasai girls is Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), the term used to describe the widespread practice of female circumcision. Becca has been working with both the elders and the women of their local community to help educate them on the dangers of the practice, and facilitate changes that will bring it to an end. She has also designed a necklace based on one that Maasai girls wear at the ceremony when they undergo FGM;
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money from sales of this necklace will help fund the fight against the practice. Many families in the Masaai region are unable to fund their children’s formal education and so the alternative is to marry them off so that they do not have to live in poverty. The practice has been deeply entrenched in the culture. In some regions females believe that FGM brings success in all areas of life. ‘Stopping FGM means stopping early marriage,’ Becca explains, ‘which gives girls the opportunity to complete their education and have a better future.’ Hennie had plans to make use of the group at Maasai Academy, the local primary school which RedTribe are involved with and where Taliah, the youngest of the Marais children, is currently a student. They were encouraged to bring both spiritual input and some practical help to the school community, which has steadily grown over recent years, and has required an ongoing building programme. ‘The classrooms have been completed up to Year Seven,’ Becca shared. ‘Now we have plans to add a library, and some boarding facilities.’ Due to the remoteness of the area, young children often walk long distances
to school, which increases their vulnerability to attack, particularly the girls. Providing a boarding house will give these youngsters the opportunity to be safe and well-cared for, as well as the advantage of living on the school site, and not having tiring journeys at the beginning and end of every day. The team also visited some water projects which RedTribe have recently been involved with, and as the visit covered a weekend, they had the opportunity to travel to a remote area of the region for a Maasai church service. It was a privilege for MAF Kenya to be able to assist these young people in expanding their horizons, and being exposed to the challenges of life and ministry in a context so different from their own.
Did you know Florence Odero, (front cover), is an engineer for MAF Kenya. 22 years after Florence first came to MAF, she’s seen as a role model for women and there are now two women doing engineering roles in the MAF Kenya hangar.
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul Story by Gabriella Szabo Painting by John Adams (For Sale: Proceeds go to FFL)
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uring our time in Limpopo, we have met many people. Some we have seen passionately pursuing Jesus, and others we have seen stuck in the dregs of dead religion. When people don’t see a way out or a bright tomorrow, when they don’t think anything better is going to come, they sink into depression. We have been made aware of many people in the Vhembe District experiencing hopelessness and we know that it is only through Jesus that true hope can be restored.
their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up [close to God] as eagles [mount up to the sun]; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint or become tired.
We all need hope. Hope is not a vain wish that may turn into disappointment. Hope is the belief that there is nothing that is impossible for God. Hope is knowing that no problem is too big for Him. It is the full expectation and anticipation that God has good plans for us. Hope and faith go hand in hand.
In each project, there is a spiritual aspect to our work. Our Operations Manager, Thandeka Mndebele, is passionate about evangelism. When we do medical projects, she makes conversation with the patients and leads them to Christ. Maryna Roux, one of our medical partners hands out Bibles and blankets to patients. We are passionate about the Truth accompanying our work.
According to our sports partner Sean Szabo, “the youngsters have very little hope. They don’t see anything changing around them, they don’t see any possibilities. We aim to restore their hope, through sharing Christ’s plans for their life and through brain-centred soccer training. Soccer engages their passions and talents and gives us the opportunity to speak into their lives and to show them the Truth of what the Bible says about them.” Isaiah 40:31 tells us: But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] shall change and renew
Without God there is no hope. With rituals and certain traditions, people are kept away from God, wearied and in fear. We have to rely fully on the Lord, and listen carefully to the Holy Spirit to know how to battle these spiritually rooted issues.
Recently, Thandeka spoke with people waiting at the clinic in Ha-Makuya. When asking if she could pray for them, they responded in fear. They did not want others to hear anything about their lives, just in case it could be used against them in witchcraft. Witchcraft is a problem in the Vhembe District. In June this year, a woman in her early twenties was killed in Thohoyandou, the village we fly to. The police notified the news that some body parts were missing, and that they suspect it was
related to satanic rituals. Nneke Ledwaba, Provincial Commissioner LieutenantGeneral, mentioned that there is a “trend of this type of incident in the province.” It is only through Christ that these issues can be dealt with. We work with ZEMA, Zion Evangelical Ministries of Africa, to bring the good news of the Gospel to ZCC churches in the area. Not all, but many ZCC churches still practise ancestral worship, and many members attend church out of tradition instead of a relationship with Jesus. Paul Seelhammer, our ZEMA pastor, recently had a vision, whilst he was in Limpopo, of the community uniting with thanksgiving in a celebration of restoration. We have begun planning this event for December, as a time for ministering to the people and in sharing with them the love of Christ. We need prayer warriors to back our partners and our staff members as they go out to the front lines. If you are interested in joining us on this outreach, please contact us at ops@flyingforlife.co.za Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 Flying for Life is MAF SA’s local initiative.
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