NFD and Western

The start of the week was busy. I flew up north to pick up some short-term missionaries who'd been serving at Gatab hospital. On the way I stopped at Olturot to pick up a patient, dropped him at Gatab, then took 3 ladies and 2 babies to Loiyangalani where I picked up a -really- sick man(he could barely get to the plane) and took him to Gatab for testing.

Once that was all done, I refueled (many thanks to John Woodworth from Master's Mission for his help bringing fuel and the pump down), loaded up nearly 400kg of doctor, nurses and their bags to take to Siana Springs, a safari lodge so they could tour a little before returning to the US.

The fun part was these folks go to my Mom's church, Blacksburg Christian Fellowship. Make sure you got to their show and tell, Mom!


The next day was an easy flight, I took some folks to Kisumu to visit the Compassion International project there. The family I took over supports one of the children through C.I. and they were taking the opportunity while in Kenya to go and visit. It was an excellent day. One of the best parts of being a missionary pilot is that you get invited along alot of the time. It was really great to see how excited the child was, and his parents and the people running the project to have a sponsor come and visit. We support 2 children through Compassion, Uwitonze Dalia in Rwanda, and Newton Agani here in Kenya. We're starting to make plans to visit him, and I now have a good contact in the Kenya C.I. office to help with the paperwork. C.I. is (understandably) fairly careful how they handle these visits. Anyway, I'm looking forward to flying my family out to see Newton.

Oh, and a picture or two: These are from last week's jaunt to Merti.
The first one is loading up the trucks to go to Merti town from the airstrip.

The second is one of the towns people entering the clinic,

and the third is buttoning up the pod, getting ready to return to Nairobi.