The Greatest Adventure ...

There are a couple of new links on the left side of this blog that I want to draw your attention to. As I told you in my first post on this blog, BIKERussia was the greatest adventure of my life, and I am watching for the door to open for me to go forth again. In the past few weeks, I have become familiar with two missions groups that are training for and living the walk of adventure, in some cases to the extreme. "Travel the Road" is the ministry and story of a two-man missions team, Will D. and Tim S., who will go anywhere with the Good News of Jesus Christ, including Pakistan, Afganistan, Ethiopia, and mainland China. Their ministry and the TV program that tells of their exploits, are partners with a missions/training organization called Overland Missions. OM trains "a new breed of missionaries-fearless young men and women who take personal responsibility for the nations and will use any means technology has provided to go anywhere on the planet." The training is daring, innovative and thorough. Eventually, it is our hope that St. Brendan's Spoke will take on this same kind of missions training program, only using bicycles (which make up the largest segment of transport vehicles in the world) here in the American west, Canada and Alaska.

The other organization I want you to be aware of is MAF, the Mission Aviation Fellowship, which has been flying missions, medical and humanitarian support since 1945. As their website states, "MAF pilots fly approximately 40,000 flights a year, transporting missionaries, medical personnel, medicines and relief supplies, as well as conducting thousands of emergency medical evacuations. MAF also provides telecommunications services, including satellites, high-frequency radios, e-mail and other wireless systems, in isolated areas." Recently, two of their aircraft were damaged by mortar in the Congo region of Africa.

BIKERussia showed us that missions can be an adventure. These ministries are living that adventure and I urge you to check them out, and get involved.

Proceeding on...

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