Mission Padamo Aviation and Support

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Mission Padamo Aviation and Support (MPAS) was founded for the purpose of supporting and assisting missionaries and indigenous people of Amazonas, Venezuela. Our goal is to have flight service stationed up in the jungle where it is most needed. There has been a missionary presence in Amazonas state since 1946, and aviation support since 1965. Since February 8, 2006, however, missionaries and all i

ndigenous communities in Amazonas have been left with no air support. We are a registered 501(c)(3), non-profit, faith-based organization who believes that the command Christ gave His disciples of “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature,” is as real for us today as it was for the disciples. We are attempting to live our lives to show by word and deed that we are His disciples. By His example, we endeavor to make disciples, translate the Scriptures, and train teachers and leaders, who in turn reach out to their own people and continue the discipleship process.

Now when I share this next post, I don't want any of you rolling your eyes and saying...."well, old age has caught up wi...
10/27/2024

Now when I share this next post, I don't want any of you rolling your eyes and saying...."well, old age has caught up with him, there goes his mind..." No, it is just caused from hectic days and wondering what I am going to do when Keila's frozen dinners run out tomorrow. Anyway,

Sorry I did not post this yesterday morning, but it is a prayer request and at the same time, a huge praise. Remember a few months ago I asked for prayer for Mequias, as he had been sick for months and asked me to ask you all to pray for him as he really felt badly laying in his hammock sick while everyone else was going on missionary trips.

Well, Mequias left yesterday leading a team up the Orinoco to another river called the Manaviche River to a village up there call Calojiteli. The last time I was up there was when I was 15 years old and I am not even going to attempt to do the math to tell you what year it was, becuase if I do, it will only solidify your first thoughts about me when I told you I forgot to post this.

I don't think any missionary has been back in that village since I was up there back when I was 15. I know my brother Gary was good friends with a guy from up there, but since we moved away from that area around the same time as my last trip up there, I am pretty sure no one has been back in this village with the Gospel. I honestly had forgotten all about this village until I located it on my sat map. While showing the sat map in one of our planning sessions, I talked about the last time I had been in that village. I had actually gone there with Bautista, Mequias' father who was over in the Mavaca area working with Dad and Mom. When Mequias heard this, he informed us he wanted to go and take the Gospel there. When I asked him if he felt up to a long river trip he grinned and said, "I am healed. it is time I get back to work. Besides, we have a new motor now. The first trip this motor went on was taking our seminar students home, but this is the first real missionary trip this motor is going on, so yes, I really want to go."

Well, our team left excited yesterday taking a projector with the movies, God's Story, The Jesus Movie and Passion of the Christ, all translated into Yanomamö. They also took Torches to place up there. Pray for ready hearts to hear and accept the Good News.

10/17/2024

Praise the Lord with us folks. Our motor came up today and our students are on their way home. Please be praying for them. It is a long way home for them. 2 + days by boat, then at least 3 days by trail. We are asking God to give them traveling mercies as they make their way home.

Thanks all!

10/13/2024

hi All, Praise the Lord with us! On a good note, the 8 students from those very far away villages that we have been teaching all week, well they all publicly expressed a desire to follow Christ yesterday evening. Praise the Lord with us!

10/08/2024

Please read our latest update. Posted in the comment section below. I reference a conversation I had had with my dad back in early 2005, posted below is the most of the conversation from my 3rd book, By Faith Not By Sight.

"I forget the exact date, but it had to have been sometime in the beginning of 2005... ...I had given Dad a small booklet called the Prayer Of Jabez and he was really excited about all he was reading.

Then one day, over early morning coffee, he announced to all of us that he had decided to ask God to increase his territory.

Having just finished the book myself, I knew what he was talking about but was quick to point out the reasons his prayer was not only unrealistic but was down right impractical.

“Dad,” I said gently, “This government is going to pot and we can’t get more missionaries in and frankly, we have all we can do now. Please don’t ask God to encrease your territory, we can’t handle what we have now.” Dad just shook his head.

I tried a different tack...”Dad,” I began again, “you are 85 years old, how much more do you think you can do?” Dad was not put out. “Mike,” he said gently, “Caleb was 85 years old when he asked for his mountain and he conquered it. I am 85 too. My God is not hindered by my age.” So he kept praying that God would encrease his territory.

in Agust of that same year, 2005, a commission came up and shut down our missionary activity by revoking our fuel permit which basically shut us down. In my human viewpoint, our territory was fast shrinking not expanding and I brought that fact out to my ever praying dad. He was not shaken."
Excerpt from By Faith, Not By Sight, chapter 15

And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested. I Chron 4:10

10/07/2024

hi all, be praying we can get the outboards already purchased up here soon. Today, I sent out my last working motor to a village about an hour away to pick up someone who asked if he could come to our class. They should have been back by noon at the latest, but haven’t gotten home yet. Sad thing is, I don’t have anything to go looking for them with….

Michael

10/05/2024

A few weeks ago, I wrote about guys coming here from 3 far away villages and asking for teaching. We spent the next week holding Bible classes with them, and took them home after the week was over.

Well, one of our boats who had taken the guys from Bashobäca home got back yesterday and brought back more guys then he took home. These guys are even from further away. They are from way inland. they had walked 3 days out to Bashobäca as they had heard they were going to make a trip, but they arrived there too late. Well, they are here now and are asking for teaching. So we are starting classes with them on Monday, although even right now, there are a group of the believers from here out in our cookhouse explaining what they are going to be hearing when classes start.

The elders from the church here were worried aout their food situation as their gardens still are not producing enough yet and we just had the other group of guys here. But we serve a Faithful God! Thankfully a friend from over on the Orinoco came in yesterday with 8 smoked wild pigs and I bought all of them from him for the class, so we at least have enough meat to feed them for a few days anyway. Some of the young guys have offered to go out spearing fish for the classes as well. We were also able to purchase some Casave cakes and manoco for feeding them, from some passing Dyecwana guys.

Pray God would even now be preparing their hearts for HIS Word. These are guys who have never been taught from villages that have never seen or heard a missionary, so pray we can give them the Gospel in an understandable way. God has sent them here for a purpose. Thanks for your prayers!

09/29/2024

Hi Friends, here is our latest update: Thanks for your faithful prayers for this ministry.

Update in comment section.

09/25/2024

Sorry for not posting this sooner. About 5 years or so ago, we were invited to a village way up near the headwaters of our river here to show the Jesus Movie and Passion of the Christ. When the village who had invited us, knew we were coming, some guys from that village who had relatives in a far away inland village, ran to call their relatives. The day we arrived, they also got back to their village with some people from that inland village. They listened well, and on our last day there, they accepted Christ's finished work on the cross for them and ask God to save them. They followed the Lord in believer's baptism later on that day. Since they are so far inland, we have not had contact with any of them until late July of this year when our pastor from here was invited to a Dyecwana village to preach. Some of the guys walked out to that village and were there for that week of Bible Conference. Timoteo gave them each a torch as they told him that they were the ones who work in their little church in that far away village. We were surprised and excited to hear they had a church there! Timoteo invited them down to our village.

So on Sunday, 4 guys from that very far away inland village paddled down here. They had walked out to a village on the river, borrowed a canoe and made their way here. They asked us to teach them. So this week, our outreach guys started classes with them. Then, on Monday 5 guys from way up the Butaco River arrived and joined the group. So we are now holding classes with these 10 people from these villages.
1 guy from Wasareco whose canoe they borrowed
3 guys and a girl from Shelicasibuwei
5 guys from Bashobäca

Please pray for these guys! They are demonstrating a very real interest in knowing more about God.

09/24/2024

Please be praying for our son Ryan as he has to make an emergency flight today. The smoke over the jungles of Peru make flying, not only difficult, but dangerous. Your prayers are greatly appreciated.

09/19/2024

Hi again, our guys left in great high spirits, but about 4 hours later came limping, figuratively speaking, back to my port here. They had gotten about 1/2 hour below the village and the motor started acting badly. They stopped and opened the bonnet of the motor and were shocked to see the inside drenched with oil. they decided to return. By the time they got back, the motor was barely running. This is the 4th motor this month that has develpoed this problem and we are totally stumped and now, without a motor that runs until the two new ones we purchased get up here our team is going to have to wait. They are super disappointed as we had to tell them this trip has to be postponed until the new motors arrive. Praise the Lord it happened close to home and not 300 or 400 kilometers away.

Hi All, Please be praying for my sisters, Faith and Sharon, their houses were hit by a lighting bolt, actually, a palm t...
09/18/2024

Hi All, Please be praying for my sisters, Faith and Sharon, their houses were hit by a lighting bolt, actually, a palm tree beside the house was hit, but it did major damage, Ruined their generator, inverter and seems like anything electrical that was plugged in, Faith says they feel a bit like Job...But they have good additudeds about this. Thanks for your prayers for them. they are praising the Lord no one was hurt. With as many kids they have running around in their homes, it is a miracle no one was hurt.

Also, I wanted to let you know Timoteo and team have returned. Very excited about what the Lord is doing up there. Will give report when I can. Things are crazy here.

As soon as Timoteo returned with the outboard, the next outreach team jumped in to get ready to head out. So Antonio's team left this morning around 10:30. They took 70 Torches, 50 King of Glory Books in Yanomamö, and 6 in Spanish to give to some Spanish speaking pastors they will pass on their way down the Casiquiare Canal. Pray for this team, this is the furtherest from our village we have ever sent teams and the bad part is, it is all downriver, so there will be no floating home if they have mechanical problems. But they sure were excited to go.

They had hoped to be gone earlier this morning, but the guy who was going to run the projector could not go as he was not feeling well. He had just returned with Timoteo's team, but the second guy who runs the projectors is Mequias and he, although he told us this morning, is feeling a little bit better, we did not want to send him out too early. So we elected two other guys from the team and spent some time this morning teaching them how to set up and run the projector for showing the movies they will have with them. These movies are in Yanomamö and include, God's Story, From Creation to Eternity, the Jesus Movie, and Passion of the Christ.

If they spend 3 days or so in the villages they are going to visit, having something for their meetings at night really give the people a visual for the teaching sessions during the day. They try to start with God's Story, then, finish with the Jesus / Passion movies. As I said, they left very excited.

Please pray for traveling mercies for this team. Once they pass TamaTama, we will not have any further contact with them until they start heading home and past TamaTama again.

Hi All, I have a prayer request for you. A young man here, Mequias Perez, he is the middle son of Bautista (Shoefoot). H...
09/16/2024

Hi All, I have a prayer request for you. A young man here, Mequias Perez, he is the middle son of Bautista (Shoefoot). He has been very active in our outreach program, going on many long trips with me. He runs the projector showing the Jesus Movie / Passion of the Christ and God's Story, From Creation to Eternity for us. He truly has a passion for the lost.

He has been sick now for about a month and I was talking with him today and he ask me to ask my friends to pray for him. "I don't want to lay in my hammock sick when there are so many Yanomamö people out there whom have never heard. Please ask your friends to pray that God might heal me. I am getting so sad with teams leaving without me." He told me.

I assured him I would pass his message on. Thanks for praying for him. He really is a faithful teammate.

Picture: Mequias showing how a Torch works to people on the Ocamo on one of our many trips together.

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