Kalimantan

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MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) provides vital aviation and radio communications services to indigenous churches and community development projects in Kalimantan, Indonesia.

In 1969, MAF began to serve mission groups and the emerging indigenous churches of Kalimantan. Today, with multiple staff families and seven aircraft, MAF ministers from two bases: Palangkaraya in central Kalimantan and Tarakan in east Kalimantan. MAF aviation and communications services enable and maximize ...

  • Theological education by extension (TEE), church conferences, and outreach teams.
  • Pastor training in remote locations, student transport to Bible schools, and the placement of ministerial students in remote villages for internships.
  • Support for medical clinics in remote villages, as well as emergency medical evacuations.
  • Community development projects, surveys, and conservancy initiatives.
  • Delivery of materials for needed improvements to church buildings, schools, local businesses, and homes.
  • Transport of goods, medicines, and school supplies.

MAF enables ministry groups to bring the Gospel and basic, life-sustaining services to this primitive and otherwise inaccessible region of Indonesia. The MAF team provides much-needed and appreciated flight services, and maximizes opportunities to minister in ways not available to other mission agencies. Aviation allows MAF to establish and develop relationships with a broad cross section of society. On any given day MAF pilots might minister to the poorest of the poor with medical flights, then later transport officials at the highest level of local government.

Impact

In the past 12 months, the MAF program in Kalimantan ...

  • Saved Christian and humanitarian workers 10,083 days of travel time—or 41.7 work years redeemed for productive Kingdom work!
  • Executed 6,448 flights, transported 18,526 passengers, and delivered 865,570 pounds of cargo in order to provide access to the Gospel and to basic services such as health care, medical emergency evacuations, and education—services otherwise unavailable in jungle locations.
  • Transported church leaders and ministry teams to five leadership meetings or conferences.
  • Continued ministry efforts at a local prison. In partnership with Samaritan’s Purse, completed a new chapel for the facility.
  • Began construction of a floating hangar in Palangkaraya.
  • Finished upgrading the Peninke Hill school facility.

MAF Staff Serving in Kalimantan, Indonesia

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