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Dear Friends

Thank you again for your encouragement, prayers and emails (we will get around to answering all of them).

Today was the memorial for Pierre. It was a great Tribute to him and his service here in PNG. The church was standing room only and the building was surrounded by at least that many more. There were missionaries, pastors and church leaders from around the country. Pierre was one of the longest serving pilots here and had impacted many lives in the course of flying his airplane.

Tomorrow we start with a meeting to start looking at what a new MAF might look like here in PNG. We just do not have the pilots and engineers needed to do all we are asked to do. So where do you stop serving, who will be the ones to suffer? Hard questions hard answers and even harder effects. We hope that in the end MAF will be better arranged in order to continue giving the best service we can with the resources God has given and leave what we can not do to Him.

Please remember Sue and the other wives as we slowly start returning to flight operations. I, along with another pilot, will be on call in case of any medical emergencies. Later on in the day the wives will have a chance to meet together and debrief with the counselor.

Esther is holding on and is doing remarkably well, coming over last night she just wanted to sit and do something normal with Sue, knitting. Please continue to pray for her as life returns to a new “normal”.

Thanks again.

In His Grip

Richard & Susan Ebel

# posted by Ebel's Blogmail @ 11:16 PM