Aviation with a Mission

The picture...is a bit special to me also. That was taken by Dan Gealsen ("Goose") on 12/12/04 at a place called Clay Hills in southern Utah. That was the first time we had been to that airstrip on AXC. This was during the last Advanced Cross Country from Elizabethton. I was the instructor and the students were Jonathan Annis, Brian Marx, and Daniel Geaslen. Jonathan flew into Clay Hills, Daniel took the picture, and Brian flew out. All that trivia is to lead up to the interesting fact that Brian Marx rode in the back seat of that very airplane several times (when it had 6 seats) as a missionary kid in Honduras some 15 or 20 years previously. When I learned that, I couldn't help but reflect on the amazing way in which God orchestrates the events in our lives. Sometimes we see a bit of His plan and other times we wonder what He is doing or why He is doing it, but I am thankful for the confidence that He is the one orchestrating everything. I know N185PR is just a bunch of metal, plastic, and rubber put together to make a machine, and people are what is important, not machines. However, I agree that it would be neat to see this machine continue to be used to help people prepare to use machines to help people in God's name.

Blessings,
Al Rice