I flew for Golden Hills Community Church from the USA. They have adopted several key people groups in eastern Chad and, for the past 10 years, have sent out a number of new missionary families as well as supported missionaries already established in the area.
Each year, the mission pastor comes at least once to encourage teams and bring in a short-term dental team to support the full-time missionaries.
While these visits bless the remotely-placed missionaries, the dental team seeks to provide ‘visible’ and personal care to the local communities and through that build trust for the missionaries.
I have done at least 7-8 of these trips over the years and they are always the highlight of my flying in Chad. On this trip we visited 4 communities spending 2-3 days in each location. The pastor visited with four mission units while hundreds of patients were seen.
It is during these trips that I see so clearly the blessing that MAF is to Chad! And we are privileged to be a part of it!