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Samaritan Aviation Showing God's love through aviation services in the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea. Visit our website www.samaritanaviation.org

Samaritan Aviation exists to demonstrate God’s love by providing aviation and medical services in remote areas. Operating some of the only floatplanes in Papua New Guinea, we serve those living in the East Sepik province through emergency life flights, medicine delivery, disaster relief and community health programs.

Jonny Judas weighed almost nothing.Six months old, and his small frame was already losing a battle it shouldn't have had...
10/13/2026

Jonny Judas weighed almost nothing.

Six months old, and his small frame was already losing a battle it shouldn't have had to fight. Pneumonia had settled into his lungs. Malnutrition had stripped away what little reserve he had. Anemia had left him pale and fragile.

His mother had carried him to help the only way available to her, and Pilot Nick had flown them from Angoram to Boram Hospital in Wewak, covering in minutes a journey that by canoe would have consumed the better part of a day.

The medical team began treatment. Jonny was admitted to the ward and stayed.

And while he recovered, something unexpected began to take shape around him.

The mothers on the ward, each one there for her own reason and carrying her own worry, found themselves gathered around the King of Glory series. Scripture brought to life on screen, told in the languages they grew up speaking. Then the ministry team brought a tablet loaded with the full King of Glory video series, and the women watched it together from beginning to end.

When it was over, they said it had been helpful. Encouraging. That they had greatly enjoyed it.

There is something worth picturing in that. A hospital ward full of mothers, far from home, tired and uncertain, finding themselves genuinely moved by the story of God told in their own words. The weight of the week didn't disappear. But it was carried differently after that.

Jonny responded to his medicine.

The little boy who had arrived barely holding on was well enough to go home.

His mother left with her son healthy in her arms and the Word of God tucked into her heart. For a six-month-old who had arrived barely holding on, that is more than enough to be grateful for.

Thank you for making it possible.

Did you know that many of the aid posts we supply would not be able to keep their doors open without our deliveries?In r...
10/12/2026

Did you know that many of the aid posts we supply would not be able to keep their doors open without our deliveries?

In rural Papua New Guinea, aid posts are often the only source of medical care for entire communities, small, under-resourced facilities staffed by dedicated health workers doing their best with what they have. When supplies run out, the doors close. And when the doors close, there is simply nowhere left to go.

Samaritan Aviation works alongside the provincial health system to ensure these posts stay stocked with the medicine and supplies they need to keep serving their communities. We fly in what the roads can't carry and deliver what the canoes can't get there in time. This is some of the most important work we do because a fully stocked aid post means access to essential health care every day.

Three days is a long time to wait when something is wrong.Silvia Ako knew it. Her body knew it. But in Angoram, with no ...
10/08/2026

Three days is a long time to wait when something is wrong.

Silvia Ako knew it. Her body knew it. But in Angoram, with no hospital nearby and a retained placenta that wasn't resolving on its own, waiting was the only option available, until it wasn't.

Angoram sits nearly 70 kilometers from Wewak. By canoe along the Sepik, that's the better part of a day. For a woman three days postpartum, low on blood, and quietly deteriorating, it was a journey her body could not have made.

Pilot Nick flew Silvia to Boram Hospital.

She arrived depleted. The retained placenta had been slowly taking from her what she couldn't afford to lose, and her blood levels reflected every one of those three days. Before surgery could even be considered, she needed a transfusion, her body had to be brought back to a place where it could withstand what came next.

She waited. She received the blood she needed.

Then the medical team took her into surgery, where the remaining tissue was carefully removed. The thing that had been quietly threatening her life for three days was finally gone.

And Silvia began to breathe easier, in every sense.

The hospital ministry team visited her during her recovery, sitting with her, praying over her and her newborn, and sharing the Word of God with a woman who had spent three days in the shadow of something serious and had come through the other side.

Mom recovered well. Her baby was healthy beside her.

Both were discharged home together to live a life that would've otherwise been impossible without your help. Thank you for making sure Silvia got the care she needed.

There are patients who made it home because of you.Mothers who delivered safely. Children who recovered. Families who he...
10/07/2026

There are patients who made it home because of you.
Mothers who delivered safely. Children who recovered. Families who heard the Gospel for the first time from a hospital bed in Boram. Every one of those moments has a thread that runs back to a community of generous people who decided this mission was worth supporting — and kept showing up.
We don't take that lightly. The impact you've made is real, it's lasting, and it reaches places most of the world will never see. Thank you for trusting us to carry it forward.

Melanie Imgur is ten years old, and she should be spending her days the way ten-year-olds do.Playing. Learning. Getting ...
10/06/2026

Melanie Imgur is ten years old, and she should be spending her days the way ten-year-olds do.

Playing. Learning. Getting into the kind of harmless trouble that becomes a funny story later. Not lying in a hospital bed with a machete wound to her face, broken teeth, and blood loss that had left her pale and frightened.

But that was exactly where she was when the call came from Kaup.

Pilot Nick flew Melanie to Boram Hospital in Wewak. The flight covered distance that would have been measured in long, agonizing hours by canoe. For a child losing blood, those hours were not available.

At the hospital, the medical team assessed the damage and prepared for surgery. The repair work was careful and significant, a wound like Melanie's doesn't simply close on its own. The doctor worked to put back together what had been torn apart, and when it was done, the team began a quiet three-day watch. Waiting to see if the wound would hold.

It did.

No complications. The wound held. And Melanie, who had arrived pale and broken, began to come back to herself by the goodness of God.

She could see. She could eat. She could look around the ward with the kind of alert curiosity that tells you a child is going to be okay.

The hospital ministry team visited Melanie and her family during her recovery, praying over her and sharing the Word of God with people who had arrived at the hospital carrying fear and were leaving with something better.

She was discharged home to Kaup.

Ten years old, healing, and heading back to the life that had been interrupted.

Thank you for making sure she could get there.

September was a historic month for Samaritan Aviation.We flew 44 patients, the most patients we have ever flown in a sin...
10/05/2026

September was a historic month for Samaritan Aviation.

We flew 44 patients, the most patients we have ever flown in a single month.

We’re incredibly grateful to have been able to say “yes” 44 times. But this milestone also tells a sobering story: the need is so great.

Behind every flight was a person facing a medical emergency in a place where there are no roads, no ambulances, and often no other way to reach lifesaving care in time.

44 patients. 44 families. 44 moments when minutes mattered.
And the calls keep coming.

Thank you to everyone who makes it possible for us to keep flying when hope can’t wait.

Join the mission at samaritanaviation.org.

The call can come in at any moment.A mother in obstructed labor. A child with a fever that won't break. A snakebite vict...
10/02/2026

The call can come in at any moment.

A mother in obstructed labor. A child with a fever that won't break. A snakebite victim in a village hours from the nearest clinic. When that call comes, our team needs to be ready, plane fueled, crew prepared, supplies stocked, and not a second wasted wondering whether we can afford to go.

That readiness has a cost. And Compassion Crew is a part of how we meet it.

For $19 a month, you become part of the reason we can say yes without hesitation, every flight, every family, every emergency. You may not be in the cockpit, but your faithfulness is what gets us off the water. Join Compassion Crew at compassioncrew.org.

We’re grateful to celebrate a new partnership with the Australian Government! Recently, we gathered at our hangar with r...
10/01/2026

We’re grateful to celebrate a new partnership with the Australian Government!

Recently, we gathered at our hangar with representatives from the Australian High Commission to mark this partnership and celebrate what it will make possible for communities across Papua New Guinea.

This support comes during an especially busy season for Samaritan Aviation. This year, our team had already flown 276 critically ill patients to care so far in 2026, and September became the busiest month of flying in Samaritan Aviation’s history flying 44 patients.

We’re incredibly thankful for partners who come alongside us to help keep the lifeline ready when the next call comes from the river.

The whole village had come to the water's edge.They lined the riverbank in Watam, watching as 17-year-old Davin Dick was...
10/01/2026

The whole village had come to the water's edge.

They lined the riverbank in Watam, watching as 17-year-old Davin Dick was brought to the plane in a small dinghy. She had been in labor for days. Her contractions were regular, but nothing was progressing. This was her first pregnancy, she had received almost no prenatal care, and she was frightened in the way that only a first-time mother, far from help, can be frightened.

A stethoscope. A heartbeat. A prayer spoken over Davin while her whole community listened from the bank.

Then the plane lifted off.

What lay between Watam and Boram Hospital in Wewak was more than 65 miles of river and coastal water. By canoe, in active labor, that distance is not a journey. It is a gamble no one should have to take. And there was something else no one yet knew — Davin was carrying twins.

She delivered both of them at the hospital. Healthy. A surprise to the medical team, and most of all to Davin herself.

The babies were observed before being reunited with their mother. Then Davin developed a fever and difficulty breathing. Nurses gave her oxygen and cared for her. Our team prayed over her, because at Samaritan Aviation, the care was never only medical.

She recovered. The babies were brought back to her.

All three went home together from a hospital Davin never could have reached on her own.

Unexpectedly, three lives were saved in one flight that day.

God knew though.

Thank you for making sure the plane was there when the call came.

One-year-olds follow curiosity wherever it leads.A mango tree. Something interesting underneath it. Whatever her uncle h...
09/29/2026

One-year-olds follow curiosity wherever it leads.

A mango tree. Something interesting underneath it. Whatever her uncle had left beneath those branches, Julianna Stanley didn't know what it was or why she shouldn't touch it. She was one year old. The world was something to be explored, not feared.

Her uncle had set a trap beneath the mango tree to catch a fruit bat, a common practice in Papua New Guinea, where traditional hunting methods are woven into everyday life. Somehow, in the way that toddlers find exactly what they aren't supposed to find, Julianna disturbed it.

The trap fired. A spear struck her in the back.

Angoram sits nearly 70 kilometers from Wewak, a journey that by canoe along the Sepik would take the better part of a day. For a one-year-old with a spear wound, that wasn't a journey. It was an impossibility. Pilot Nick flew Julianna to Boram Hospital in Wewak, carrying a little girl who had simply wandered into the wrong moment.

The medical team stabilized her and prepared for surgery the following day. When the time came, they went in and carefully removed the spear. Julianna came through.

What followed was the quiet work of healing. She rested. She slept, the deep, recovering sleep of a small body working hard beneath the surface. The hospital ministry team visited the family, praying over Julianna and sharing the Word of God with the people gathered around her bed, a family shaken by how quickly an ordinary afternoon had become something else entirely.

She healed. She was discharged. She went home to Angoram. Still curious, no doubt. Still one year old. She went home with a story she may not remember, but her family never will forget, along with the hope of a loving God.

Thank you for making sure she had the chance to grow up.

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