MAF continues relief support

Missionary Aviation Fellowship continues to be involved in supporting relief efforts in the wake of the Feb 26 earthquake.
A huge supply of vegetables and other supplies donated by the community around Mt Hagen were flown by MAF to affected areas last Thursday.
Queen’s Park was very busy as many local churches gathered to donate goods for those affected by the earthquakes. There were cabbages, sweet potatoes, clothes, blankets and cash donations from local congregations.
Siobhain Coles, a member of the MAF PNG disaster relief team, witnessed the event and was deeply touched.
“They are giving out what little they have to those people who have nothing just a few hundred kilometres away from where they live,” Coles said. “They are neighbours, they are brothers and sisters.
“And they are wanting to share whatever they can.
“It was a privilege to be able to be there and see people bring even just a small bag containing one blouse or a few sweet potatoes to bless other people.
“It is also a privilege to be a part of the disaster response team and the MAF PNG operations team, so we are able to send as much of these vegetables on some of our flights to the worst-affected areas in the province.
“It was humbling to see local people, who have very little themselves, giving a few clothes, a few cabbages from their garden, whatever they could spare to bless those bush people who have even less.
“I felt like I was watching the widow at the temple from the story in the Bible — Luke 21:1-4: As Jesus looked up, he saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins: ‘Truly I tell you,’ he said, ‘this poor widow has put in more than all the others.
“All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.’”