Excerpt: Mission Aviation Fellowship and JAARS are perhaps the most well-known users of aircraft for ministry purposes. Their planes are generally outfitted to haul cargo, not people, and while both organizations have fleets operating in the United States, most of their planes are in remote areas around the world.
Excerpt: While the dollar's value falls, the cost of vital resources like fuel continues to soar around the world. Missions agencies that depend on piston-engine aircraft that run on aviation fuel (instead of much cheaper jet fuel) have made drastic adjustments to cover the bloated costs.
Excerpt: Marshall Carter had hoped to fly his 10-seat family plane to Waxhaw himself last week and donate it personally to the JAARS missions agency. But it was an unusually busy week for Carter, deputy chairman of NYSE Euronext – the holding company for the New York Stock Exchange. So a bush pilot friend of Carter's flew the Pilatus PC-6 to Waxhaw and handed it over to JAARS on Thursday.
Excerpt: Elaine Mielke Townsend, for 25 years the face of the Bible-translators group Wycliffe International and its support organization known as JAARS, will be laid to rest Saturday outside Waxhaw beside her husband, the group’s founder.
Excerpt: When U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., was sworn into the 110th Congress in Washington, he held is right hand on a Bible. What was unusual was that it was a Gullah Bible.
