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I know it has been a minute! A month or two, maybe even three since my last newsletter update. And that it still looks and feel more like like last year here. It can only be right to start by saying Happy blessed New year and welcome to a new month. 

It fills my heart with warm memories mentioning that i drafted and carried pieces of this newsletter update in almost all the places i call home; MAF in South Africa, in the comfort of my mother’s house and love, in the care and moments filled with laughter with my friends, in fellowship with my local church and in my home country

I know we all carry  different definitions of what home is, what it should look like and how  it is meant to feel. Strangely enough,  the above image is my honest, sober picture of being home to me; everything laid out, bags still open, no need for closets, with no need to hide or pressure to put certain parts of myself away. Being fully seen for who i am and for all that i carry and knowing without question that i am still loved .

I am  back in Monrovia Liberia,  another place i am learning to call home. And yet, even in being here, today’s reflection feels weightier, as it marks  a full year of me serving with MAF in Liberia as a Licensed Aircraft Engineer. Despite being home in place and purpose, I find my self wrestling with another thought, a more quieter persistent invitation to be home still, but home in this earthen vessel we call the body.An invitation to come into the fullness of being, to being found. To allow divinity to fully  find  expression through me and by me , here in the land of the living. To come to the knowledge of Him who formed my inward parts in my mother’s womb, to whom my frame was never hidden, even when I was made in secret. An invitation to come to the salvation of my soul and to truly grasp what it means to be fearfully and wonderfully made. To come into the sum of His precious thoughts and plans toward me, and by His mercies, to learn how to present myself as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable which is my reasonable service unto Him.

The same inner wrestlings of the prodigal son when he was in a far off country; for him to come  to himself, his desire to be found by someone,  his longings for something better and his desire to be home. Which appear in the telling of the story to seem to originate from within himself. Yet in truth, it was  born from the unwavering love of a faithful Father who was always watching, always waiting, and  looking out toward the horizon for His lost son to come to life. Which i believe is the very same invitation our loving and faithful Father is  extending to all of us in Jesus Christ, even in this new season; to come to life, to the salvation of our souls , to be home, and to be found.

Praises and Prayer requests

• Praise be to God that today marks my full year of serving with MAF in Liberia.
• Praise be to God that I have managed to renew my ICAO Aircraft engineer’s license with Cessna 208 series and Beechcraft King Air 200 Series ratings.
• I will be travelling to Guinea, Conakry at the end of February to do a 200hrs inspection on N2114G, which is the aircraft used by MAF in Guinea. Remember me and my French in your prayers
• We are going to have a busy start of the year in maintenance, N2114G will be in for 200hrs inspection at the End of February,  N110PE will be In for 200hrs and Annual inspection in March , N552HF will be in for 200hrs and annual Inspection in April. Kindly remember us in prayers for the maintenance to go according to plan
• We are expecting two engineers from MAF in Kenya to come and assist with our scheduled maintenance
• Continue remembering the  Venter and Rietoff families who continue to be a blessing financially to my ministry