MASA
Pictured below is our MMS group at Air Venture in Oshkosh, WI. With the exception of Michele, we are manning the MMS display. Michele is on loan to MASA as their diningroom supervisor and is busier than the rest of us.
Michele, Tim, Jim, Dwight, Rena
MASA (Missionary Avation Support Association) is a local ministry started to help the missionaries who come to Air Venture. Some years ago, missonaires were considering the fact that it was too expensive to be able to find housing, food etc. in order to have a presence at Air Venture each year. One local man asked if he could help missionaires get these needs supplied, could the missionaries continue to come? The answer was "yes" and MASA was born. This year there are about 200 aviation missionaries and Christian University reps. here at Air Venture, representing 28 entities. MASA arranges free housing in Christian homes, supplies all our meals (different church groups have signed up to cook a meal and feed us), provides cars for those who flew here, and has people meet us at the airport and etc. We have been so pampered.
The entrance to the MASA tent which is located just outside one of the entrances to AirVenture
Baggage check in - they think of everything!
You can see the diningroom tent behind. A storm last night destroyed the baggage tent and some of it ended up on top of the diningroom tent. A new tent is on its way today.
Inside the dinningroom tent
Rena and Erica
It was fun to run into Erica again. You may remember on an earlier blog, that Erica, along with other LeTourneau student volunteers spent their Spring break at MMS helping in the hangar. Eric and another student stayed with us. This week Erica is helping the LeTourneau repesentatives at their table in the IAMA tent.
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