PCM News: Interesting places to sleep

22 April 2012

Interesting places to sleep

Last week Paul flew out with an education team to Chimoio and Marromeu in Mozambique on a trip which included a few interesting accommodation options.

In Marromeu, while the team traveled by road to the YWAM centre, he stayed at the new Mercy Air 'Shipping Container Base' (http://pcm-mercyair.blogspot.com/2012/04/accommodation-in-mozambique.html) and helped Mikael, a Swiss volunteer, with a few jobs. First they put a roof on the departures lounge..

and then installed some security lighting..

which gave quite a moody effect at night.

They, well Mikael, also installed a windsock..

The education team came down and spent two days flying into the Zambezi Delta..

On Thursday the team flew back to Chimoio where they were picked up and driven one hour north to ASAM, where we saw the progress made on the Mercy Air house.

While there was just enough room for the team to stay there, Paul got to stay in a tent..

Mind you, how many bush tents have a nice comfy double bed?

The next day he spent some time with Rick Cogbill whom he had flown up the previous week (http://pcm-mercyair.blogspot.com/2012/04/educational-medical.html). He saw the workshop he was building and watched him give a lecture to some of the Mozambican students.

The inspection pit

Lecture about suspension

Lastly, they visited the 1.2 km long airstrip as well as the hanger that was shipped from the US in a container and erected earlier this year.

After that all that was left to do was to fly back to SA just in time for the weekend and to prepare for next weeks flight to the north of Moz.

Paul and Cathy

1 comment:

Lynn said...: Thanks for another great post, so many exciting things happening! Borrowing some of these great photos too if that's ok ;); 24 April, 2012

Post a Comment

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.