Short-Term Anxiety

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.

Missionary pilot Dennis Freeland fills up his plane in Cameroon, West Africa, from a 55-gallon drum of aviation gasoline shipped from JAARS missions agency in Waxhaw, N.C. JAARS spokesman Arthur Lightbody told WORLD that the nearest place Freeland could buy aviation fuel in the region is more than 500 miles away—and costs at least $9 a gallon.

So every six months JAARS—which provides aviation and technical support to missionaries for Wycliffe Bible Translators—ships a 20-foot container full of 55-gallon fuel barrels to Cameroon. "And that's still cheaper than buying it in a neighboring country," said Lightbody.

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