PCM News: A tail of two lions

07 April 2008

A tail of two lions

Hello,

Thanks to all those who wrote to us with regard to Matthew's graduation.
We were moderately surprised just how many people were also up for a bit of gratuitous violence and requested 'the lion pics'. So much so, it will be easier for us to send them out 'en masse'. Sorry if you've seen these already. If you requested not to see them, perhaps best not to scroll down to the last two pics (of four).

The Story:
These guys whom I used to fly with now breed lions. They are kept sort of separate but a younger one stuck his tail through a fence and a larger one took a chomp and damaged it some. Vet is called in, darts it and has a look. Prognosis was not good and a separation was required, which we got to witness.

Now for the Good ol' Christian Gore Slide Show...

The Victim:

The Culprit:

The Damage:

The Consequences:

The End... of the tale!

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A short history of us

Not long after we were married we felt that God had some full time work for us overseas. This initially began with a move to Sheffield in 1992 to work for a Christian management training company. Three years later we felt the Lord's prompting that another change was imminent and this led to a move to Africa where we helped set up a youth program with the Lesotho-Durham link in the capital Maseru. An initial three year commitment turned into four after which the youth work was handed over to the nationals.

Then, after feeling God was moving us into mission flying Paul enrolled at a flying school and completed his South African commercial license with an instrument rating in December 1999.

We moved from Lesotho to White River in South Africa in June of 2003 where we now work with Mercy Air. Mercy Air was borne out of Youth with a Mission (YWAM) and is a sister, although smaller organisation to the more well known Mercy Ships. We are situated near Nelspruit and provide a service to missions and the development/aid community in the southern African region but mainly serve Mozambique.

We operate four aircraft at present - a Quest Kodiak, a Cessna 310 and two Airbus 350 helicopters which are often used for the relief flights.

When not flying Paul is responsible for flight operations and is Mercy Air's Safety Officer.

Cathy, who is a registered Nurse and Midwife works part time at Africa School of Missions which is a bible college preparing missionaries for overseas service. She teaches in their School of Health and is part of a team which visits a number of rural clinics during the week. She is also helps with the hospitality ministry that Mercy Air runs.

Matthew spent four years at Rhodes University in Grahamstown where he studied photo journalism. He has now flown the nest and is living with his wife in Durban. They have a young daughter named Isabella.