Meeting with Helimission Friends

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The past friday, we were able to meet with a Pilot Family. The Pyle Family works for NTM (New Tribes Mission) in Indonesia and uses the Helimission Helicopter.
The family is on furlow right now. They pushed there furlow out for another year, because there was no other pilot on the basis. Now they can enjoy there time in the States.
The time was good we spend together and we got encouraged.

 

"Sandy" => "Hurricane disaster relief in New York"

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Thursday, Nov. 8th 2012, I will go to New York with a team of 8 people from the Bible School, to help in the Hurricane Disaster Relief in New York.

Right before “Sandy” hit the east coast, a team from the students here at ELIM, did an outreach for 6 weeks in New York. Now, we will go back there and help them in a very practical way.
This week is a team of 8 people leaving, next week from Nov. 15th to Nov. 18th is a second team leaving with about 25 people

Please pray for our team, and my family, while they are staying here at the campus.

Having a paied Job

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I´m back in Nuremberg at my old job. They hired me again, what helps me to gain more experiences in fixing helicopters. It´s great to be back. Lisa is working too and it was a gift of God for us, that she got this job. She is working at the hospital, what is good experience for her and the future. We are very thankful, that God has always given us what we needed.

Back from Haiti

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we made it well to Haiti and back. Sorry for not posting regularly, but we had very often trouble with the internet. We just want to give you a brief update on us. We are back in Florida now.

You might ask, what we have done the whole time. Our schedule was every day different and spontaneous. Our main-goal in Haiti was, to help the people in Haiti and to get in touch with them. For ourself we wanted to find out, how we get along with the country and the circumstances.

During our time in Haiti, we stayed in a children orphanage. The founder, Miriam, has a burden for the kids. The orphanage provides food, clothes, clean rooms, school, medical help and the word of GOD for the kids.
A guest house in which Lisa and I were staying, is on the compound for teams, they are coming to support Miriam, to go out to the City, Villages and Tent-cities. We have ben part of the different exertions of the teams as much as possible for us. On other days, we helped on different projects on the compound, like sorting clothes or digging a trench for a new sewage-pipe. When the kids had finished with school, we spend time with them, painted with them, sung songs or we just hugged them. Most of the 100 kids have no parents or they are handicapped and they need love.

Next Day

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this morning, I got up very early. It was a beautiful day with a great sunrise. I walked out the door into the cool morning and watched the sun rising. Being that close to a disaster, with still the fear and shock of the people in the air, kept me thinking of how good and well I am: ‘In about an hour, I will be flying out of this airport, leaving the destruction behind, knowing that I have a place I can go to, that is still in good shape.’

After this quiet time, I went back into the building, to plan our next route to the final destination: Kyle-Oakley (KCEY) Airport. 140 miles and approximately 1,5 hours and we will be there.
The airport-manager stepped into the building, and told me, he wants to make some coffee and whenever the other pilot is ready, we can have some at his trailer-home, before we will take off. Few minutes later, I checked on Robbie and he just got out of the shower.

To shorten the story. After drinking coffee with our friend at the airport, we started our helicopter and headed North-West, towards Kyle-Oakley in Kentucky.

After approximate a 2 hour flight, we came into CEY and landed right next to the trailer, were Brian and Bo were waiting on us, to put the spay equipments on the helicopter.

My work was done and I needed to find a flight back to Belle Glade, to go home to my beloved one, waiting for me to come back. So, I drove to the hotel, booked a flight, talked to Lisa and told her, she can pick me up at Ft. Lauderdale on Saturday afternoon.

One more night and I’ll be home 😉

1st unplaned stop…

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…at Perry-Foley (40j) airport. The weather was to bad.
The news last night showed distraction of tornadoes in Alabama. You might have followed it on the news as well. About 200 people have died and many, many people lost there homes. I feel so sorry for everyone who lost everything.

We got up in the morning, had a wonderful breakfast, got the preflight done, had full tanks and wanted to fly at least a two hour leg of our planed route. But we got right into the bad weather front, we didn’t wanted to go into. We had to return to a close airport. We landed and waited there, checked the weather-radar and hoped that we can continue our flight soon.

After three or four hours waiting, the sky cleared and we continued our flight to Auburn University (KAUO) to get fuel. The weather was beautiful and we had much fun 😉

Because we had to wait so long at Perry-Foley Airport, we could not reach our final destination, today. We needed an airport were we could stay over night. So during the flight, we looked up on the map, to find an airport with a bigger city and fuel, so that we stop, find a hotel and get fuel for our helicopter. We have chosen Pryor Airport (KDCU) in Alabama. On this flight-leg, we flew over some area, that got hit by the tornado, just one day ago. I’ve never seen anything like this. I can’t really express what I have felt. As we came into KDCU, the airport-manager told us, the airport doesn’t have any electricity, because the closest town Decatur, Alabama, got hit by the tornado. But up north, 9 miles from the airport is the town Athen, we can go to, to find a place to stay over night, he said. So we drove up and what we found was a packed town, with lots of people, looking for a place to stay. We didn’t find one, because all the hotels were booked out, because of the disaster that just happened.

We gave the very friendly airport-manager a call and he told us, we can stay at the airport. So we drove back to the airport, tired from the long flight and looking for a hotel. It got dark already, the traffic-light didn’t work and somehow we missed our turn to the airport and got on a freeway. The big problem was not, how to get back, but the fuel in the car was very low. But thank GOD, we found our way back and to make the long story short, we are sleeping this night on a couch at Pryor RGLN Airport.

For tomorrow we have only 140 mile left to fly