Adopt a Plane: Kalimantan PK-MCB

A Higher Plane podcast featuring PK-MCB
(Original Air Date: April 1, 2009)




Model: Cessna 185 (A185E) on floats
Registration: PK-MCB
Common Name: 185

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Meet PK-MCB, affectionately called “Charlie Brown”!

This MAF Cessna 185 derives its name from its registration call letters, PK-MCB. Some of its stories are fascinating … many of its flights are lifesaving … all of its service in Kalimantan is life-sustaining. Welcome aboard!

Charlie Brown is a floatplane that dramatically cuts travel time for people who live in the jungles of Central Kalimantan, and for the missionaries who bring them the Gospel. Most of Central Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo, is covered by jungles and swamps. Kalimantan’s seven rivers make excellent landing strips, allowing Charlie Brown to serve more than 75 sites. Since all the villages are situated right on riverbanks, Charlie Brown is very practical!

Without the airplane, one missionary couple faces four arduous days of travel by bus and boat to reach their village. Although their village is located on a river too small even for Charlie Brown to serve, a short flight to the nearest landing site still cuts three full days off their travel time, giving these missionaries three extra days to teach literacy to the people in their village.

Much spiritual darkness still exists in Kalimantan’s interior—spirit worship, witch doctor practices and, sadly, a form of Christianity interlaced with superstition. National pastors need much help and spiritual support. After graduating from Bible school, new pastors are sent out in pairs to evangelize and begin new churches. Charlie Brown occasionally flies them back to the campus so they can be encouraged, mentored, and pursue the additional studies they need.

This MAF plane quickly transports people to hospitals, brings medicine to those who need it, assists missionaries, and flies national evangelists into remote villages. Still, so much more could be done if the funds were available to help these people in need.

Through the MAF Adopt-A-Plane program, you too can play a significant part in transporting missionaries and national church leaders in and out of jungle villages, delivering medicines and evacuating the sick and injured, sharing the Gospel with them, and strengthening local churches and pastors.

For just $1 a day, you can adopt Charlie Brown and help transform lives through this vital ministry. Please sign up today! On behalf of the missionaries and thousands of Kalimantan’s needy who depend on MAF, thank you for your prayers and support. We thank God for you.