After getting my sea plane rating in Florida, I was riding on an emotional high. Everything was clicking along beautifully, and I was ready to fly commercially up to Chattanooga Tennessee, spend a short week at Gospel Ministries International, wrapping everything up loose ends with Todd’s Plane, and then fly it down to Guyana.

It has been 6 months since the catastrophic earthquake attacked Kumamoto city in Japan. Still many people have been forced to stay in refuge shelters, so I was visiting there every month to help those who need a volunteer.

Yesterday I was at the house where our radio and TV studios are located. Since it had been several days since I had been upstairs, I decided to walk through just to check for any potential problems such as roof or plumbing leaks. As I walked into the bathroom, I noticed a small bird called a Bullfinch fluttering against the window.

Our dear friends,

As some of you may know, for the past year, we have been busy working on a new lifestyle center in Serbia. The Lord has blessed us with an amazing property, nestled in just the right spot, with an orchard, spring water, a large house, root cellar, and an additional building unit that could be converted into housing.

Nearly twelve years ago when I embarked on my dream of becoming a missionary pilot, it never occurred to me that someday the Lord might lead me to fly an aircraft on and off of the water. In my humble (but narrow minded) opinion, water-based airplanes were plum dangerous and I had zero interest whatsoever of ever piloting a sea plane.