The day has come! Jason finally got his hands on the controls of the plane. After years and years of training and waiting he has officially begun his check out process. We all trooped out to the airport to watch the momentus event. With a video camera in one hand and the camera in the other we were able to watch his first take off. It felt a little like when my mom would line us up for pictures on our first day of school. I never thought that I and my two kids would be taking pictures of Daddy on his first real day of work!! :-) He is one happy boy. Please be praying for Jason as he continues his check out process. Over the next few weeks and months he will be working his way into the different tribal strips - going from the easiest to most difficult.
The next two weeks the plane will be grounded as Jason and chief pilot Garry work on an inspection. This ended up being a great time for the plane to be down as all of the missionaries are out of the tribe attending an NTM translation workshop. The workshop includes both the missionaries and their language helpers from the tribe. Please pray for this seminar as it is a big adjustment for many of the language helpers to be out of the tribe, especially being in a big city like Manila!
