Aloha to Missionary Mona

Lawai Valley Seventh-day Adventist Church

Family Ministries Messages

Family Ministries Director: Kay Kuzma; 808-652-1803; kaykuzma@aol.com

     When Mona (BeBe) Nicholas recommitted her life to God and joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church, she said, "Lord, I'll go where you want me to go." 

     Last year, she joined Bob McNamara and the team from Habitat for Humanity on a mission trip to Nepal where they built homes for the homeless. That experience was thrilling, and she came back to Kauai wondering, What more can I do?

     Her thoughts kept going back to her homeland of Guyana, South America and the tremendous needs among the isolated Amerianda tribes deep in the jungles. Then one day as she was watching 3ABN (Channel 25 on cable on Kauai) she saw a program featuring the pioneering work of Adventist World Aviation (AWA) that had sent missionary pilots to that region to provide transportation  to medical facilities impossible to reach by ground transportation and fly in supplies and medical/dental and Bible workers who are volunteering to help the people in this remote area. 

     She was introduced to the LaBore family and their two Cessna 182s--one of which is called the Pathfinder, because it was purchased with funds raised by Pathfinder Clubs across the world. This couple not only pilots these planes, but are homeschooling their two children, recruiting volunteer Bible and health ministry workers, and trying to build a much needed hanger. 

     On April 15th, Mona (our own volunteer missionary) is flying to Guyana for 15 days to do whatever she can to help. She is willing to use her nursing skills, help take care of the children and even contact government officials which she knows in Georgetown who might be helpful in getting the hanger built. 

    AWA continues to build God’s Kingdom, reaching the unreachable who live with desperation, disease and death as constant companions, and introducing them to Hope, Health and Life. The process of meeting people’s physical needs and proclaiming a message of hope lays a foundation for the future, indeed, all eternity. This is what AWA has done since 1995:

•     68 tribal nations impacted
•     Over 43,000 people reached
•     More than 5,000 youth involved
•     23 churches and schools established or built
•     Over 35 epidemics stopped
•     In excess of 8 million missionary seat miles flown
•     Well over 2 million pounds of food and supplies delivered
•     Over 2,000 emergency medical evacuations conducted

   How is AWA funded? Totally through donations that come in monthly to take care of the missionaries needs and the operation of the planes. (It costs $500 to do one medical evacuation!) You may not be able to go to Guyana, as Mona is doing, but you can support this work. In fact, wouldn't it be wonderful if Lawai Valley Seventh-day Adventist Church saved 5 lives (or better yet 10) because we paid for these people to be air-lifted to medical facilities! Or, maybe we could help build that much needed hanger! Even though we can't go to Guyana, we can join Mona and mail our checks to:

ADVENTIST WORLD AVIATION, PO Box 444, Sullivan, WI 53178-0444. To set up an automatic deduction from a credit card, call 414-226-5195.

Aloha Mona--And May God Bless and Keep You