Welcome to our latest ‘small voice’ feature and, this month, we find out more about an organisation that connects with people in the remotest of places …

The Mission Aviation Fellowship – also known as MAF – has been around for a long time. The experiences of the Second World War had shown that aircraft could bring aid in to remote places or evacuate people needing medical attention from those places. Missionaries could also be flown in, bringing the good news of the gospel where it had never been heard before. From a very small start, MAF is now the world’s largest humanitarian air operator, getting to places in minutes where other transport – or walking – would take days.

Our roving reporter, Margaret, spoke to James Petticrew, MAF’s Church Engagement and Volunteer Manager, based in Glasgow, to find out about MAF’s work, 80 years on. And she found out from Eddie and Rosemary Watt what it was like working with MAF, uprooting themselves from Shetland in Scotland to be able to serve God in East Africa.

If you would like to learn more about MAF, there’s lots more information on their website at https://maf-uk.org/.

Bringing help, hope, and healing through aviation so that isolated people can experience Jesus’s love.”

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Duration: 24’01 minutes. Theme music by Nicolai Heidlas.

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