Mission Support Network Newsletter,   June 21, 2009   Written by Jack Sample

Hope On Wings Foundation

Dear faithful friend of missions,

As we get closer to our full launch date of Mission Support Network in Vanimo, I want to make sure our email list is up to date.  I am working on the website as well as some other major items with hopes that Elana and I will be able to make the move to PNG in the latter part of this year. If your email address needs changing, you can go to http://MissionSupportNetwork.com/news.html and remove the old and add the new.

I now have the ability to track the open rate of our emails so will hopefully be able to ascertain which emails are old and no longer reaching a live person on the other end.

Our recent trip to Walla Walla for graduation and tax work, gave us the opportunity to set up a foundation for managing future donations.  Hope On Wings Foundation is now registered and we are in the process of applying for 501C3 tax exempt status.  We hope to have facility for on line donations on our website by early next month. We also plan to launch a subscription website at HopeOnWings.org in July.  This will be a website that will target networking groups and invite them to make a difference in the lives of PNG children.  There will be a number of options from simply a free membership to several subscription options for small monthly donations that are automatically done each month.

Mission Support Network seeks to solve a critical issue that is currently looming large in PNG.  That issue is like a missing link in connecting the willing health and gospel worker with the location where the needs are desparate.  Currently it is virtually impossible for these workers to be connected with the need because there is no way for them to get there but by air and air transportation no longer exists to these villages.

Due to an infrastructure breakdown in PNG there are no operators that are willing to take on this grass roots work due to the fact that the amount of money that can be earned serving these remote areas does not cover normal expenses for commercial companies that are in it for profit.  However, a dedicated staff of volunteers and pilots willing to work for less than going wage, along with a strong support group can, in God's strength, go in and be successful in reaching out to these forgotten people.

In these forgotten villages like Biamap, Montopai, Tipas, Ama and I could list many many more, the death rate among children is as high as 60%!  Just bringing in a PNG trained nurse to a village lowers this to 5%.  The key is "bringing in" and "supporting" them while they are there.  This is where Mission Support Network comes in.  Without transportation there will be no work for these villages and air transportation is the only viable option.

To give you an idea of the scope of the need, we hope to copy what we set up in Vanimo in numerous locations around the country, each one with a couple of planes and up to 3 or 4 pilots.  Once each location is set up, it will be able to nearly support itself with paying passengers and cargo that will keep our pilots able to visit these villages regularly so the health, education, spiritual and agriculture needs can be met.  Our biggest needs will lie in aircraft, communications equipment and buildings.

If you haven't read the stories on http://MissionSupportNetwork.com be sure you do so as it will give you a much better idea of how this will work.  Also read the newsletter archives.

Thank you so much for your prayers.

God bless,

Jack Sample

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