PCM News: Fixing a hole where the rain get's in...

16 November 2010

Fixing a hole where the rain get's in...

Actually technically not true. We made a hole not so much to stop the rain, as to prevent stopping the light.

We've had some Swiss boys at Mercy Air recently (see previous posts). They worked for six months at an orphanage in Zim and then came to us to help extend and put doors on a hangar.

In their last week with us they offered to do a few odd jobs for others and we were second fastest to put our hands up.

Anyone who's visited us knows that our house is like a cave with a porch all around the front and big trees above. We have to have the lights on on the sunniest of days. The answer to this was to let the Swiss loose with a saw and angle grinder and hope they could repair the damage before it rained again.

The carnage begins. Urs 'The Bear' Rooney wields the axe...

The hole is made...

..and almost immediately repaired with a less photon restrictive substance.

Now we need sunglasses to watch the telly.

Reward was given by way of home cooked sustinance, which you could actually see on the table.

Now our minds can wander to where they will go.
Next we'll turn our attention to the the cracks that run through the door...

Paul and Cathy

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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.