“We are trying to reach the Koti people, and it is in their own language that they respond to the Gospel,” said the local translator working in Angoche, Mozambique.

Recently John Iseminger, of The Seed Company, was on MAF’s C9-AAL, a Cessna 206. The Seed Company is funding and managing the Bible translation program and John was traveling to Angoche to encourage the team, check on their progress, and make plans for the year ahead.

John has been working in Mozambique, overseeing the Koti translation work, for the last 20 years. While he doesn’t always get to fly with MAF, he appreciates it when he does. “It’s the best way to get around,” he explained. “It’s time efficient. It’s cost efficient.”

There was an unexpected benefit of MAF starting-up in the country shortly after John arrived there. He says trying to do a language survey and mapping out the area was difficult. “One of the questions that the mappers would ask us was, ‘Where’s the border? Where does this language group end and where does the other one start?’

“Well, all we had to do was get up in the air!” said John. “Flying has really helped to get perspective and see what people are living with and dealing with. You can’t see that stuff on the ground.”

John went on to say that the group should be done with the Koti-language New Testament in about two years.

While Bible translation is a long process, C9-AAL is happy to speed things along whenever she has the opportunity. By adopting this airplane you, too, can play a supporting role in flights like this and many others that bring hope to the people of Mozambique. All it takes is a one-time or monthly recurring gift to make C9-AAL part of your family.

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“We are trying to reach the Koti people, and it is in their own language that they respond to the Gospel,” said the local translator working in Angoche, Mozambique.

Recently John Iseminger, of The Seed Company, was on MAF’s C9-AAL, a Cessna 206. The Seed Company is funding and managing the Bible translation program and John was traveling to Angoche to encourage the team, check on their progress, and make plans for the year ahead.

John has been working in Mozambique, overseeing the Koti translation work, for the last 20 years. While he doesn’t always get to fly with MAF, he appreciates it when he does. “It’s the best way to get around,” he explained. “It’s time efficient. It’s cost efficient.”

There was an unexpected benefit of MAF starting-up in the country shortly after John arrived there. He says trying to do a language survey and mapping out the area was difficult. “One of the questions that the mappers would ask us was, ‘Where’s the border? Where does this language group end and where does the other one start?’

“Well, all we had to do was get up in the air!” said John. “Flying has really helped to get perspective and see what people are living with and dealing with. You can’t see that stuff on the ground.”

John went on to say that the group should be done with the Koti-language New Testament in about two years.

While Bible translation is a long process, C9-AAL is happy to speed things along whenever she has the opportunity. By adopting this airplane you, too, can play a supporting role in flights like this and many others that bring hope to the people of Mozambique. All it takes is a one-time or monthly recurring gift to make C9-AAL part of your family.

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Along with a new paint scheme, your MAF Adopt-a-Plane, N206CE, has new call letters. From here on out your adopted plane will be known as C9-AAL, as it now bears a Mozambican registration. A fresh look and a new name means continued open doors for MAF to reach isolated people throughout Mozambique.

The little Cessna 206, C9-AAL, makes a big difference when it comes to speeding the work of those who are fighting poverty in Mozambique. Recently your plane brought two staff members from CARE to the city of Angoche. CARE works in 87 countries, including Mozambique since 1986, to support over 900 poverty-fighting development and emergency projects. Their community-based projects are particularly geared toward helping women and children.

The CARE team was scouting out the location for a future visit, where they will bring celebrity chefs and U.S. policymakers to see how development programs are benefitting the people of Mozambique.

The flight in C9-AAL was a mere 35 minutes, but it saved the CARE staff almost a full days-worth of travel, which was time better spent visiting their projects. “Securing the flight was clutch,” said Robert Roche, CARE USA’s Deputy Director for Learning Tours, Policy and Advocacy. “Otherwise, we would have had to drive seven to eight hours to Angoche.”

And it would have been seven uncomfortable hours over a rough, dirt road—if the road was even passable. Not long ago it was completely washed out.

“Bringing the congressional delegation to Mozambique will allow them to learn more about food and nutrition security in Mozambique and improve policy and funding for the issue,” said Roche.

CARE’s visit to Angoche and the upcoming trip they’re planning will lead to more exposure and greater advocacy for their work in this country. It also means life will be a little better for the people of Mozambique. And if you choose to support C9-AAL, you will play a part in this work.

Please pray for CARE’s work in the country, and for those who are being helped because of this organization. And please lift up C9-AAL’s pilots and passengers and ask the Lord for His protection over them.

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MAF was able to help out the MozMed flying doctors program and is excited to welcome Dr. Nico in May. He will replace the two previous doctors, Dr. Pim and Dr. Hanneke, who departed last fall.

In the meantime, the rest of the MozMed team, a dentist and a nurse, have been making the rounds in the Gurué district, visiting four different villages in four days. On one of their recent visits they were able to do health check-ups and vaccinations for a group of children and women.

They also made a house call to someone who was extremely sick with malaria and brought him to the local hospital. A child with severe burns (from a month earlier!) was treated and also brought to the hospital. They bandaged up a man who had injured his fingers using a “catana” (a large all-purpose sword-like knife). Thirty-six patients were seen by the dentist, and a training session was given to the health education volunteers on how to recognize a serious illness and refer people to medical help.

An MAF flight takes the team to Gurué on a Monday and picks them up on Friday, saving them a day’s worth of travel each way in a 4×4 vehicle—during the rainy season this trek is often not possible! Travel time saved means the MozMed doctors can help more people in the name of Jesus. And it’s all because of you! By adopting an MAF plane, you are bringing healthcare to those who otherwise would have none. Thank you!

Please keep the MAF Mozambique pilots in your prayers, as well as the MozMed team and the many patients they see.

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