“Someone has said, ‘Virtue in distress and vice in triumph makes atheists of mankind.’ This is undeniably the single greatest barrier to belief in God.” -Ravi Zacharias A refugee camp looks a bit like the aftermath of a tornado. Scattered about in the open grass are clothes and pots and people. The stuff of many [...]

Tuesday morning, 4:30 am, I jump out of bed two minutes before the alarm clock sounds; my mind is in full gear, even anticipating my wake-up call. A flight uniform and a well worn pair of boots are laid out and I get dressed like someone who has done this a thousand times. I grab [...]

Seven thousand feet below me, lost in a greenish mist, is a canopy of tightly packed trees. It stretches before me for hundreds of miles, and creeps behind for hundreds more. I’m flying over the rain forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly known as Zaire, and simply known to us as “the congo.” [...]

Snap.snap.snap.snap.snap. A cool and dim dawn hour awakes to the sound of high-voltage igniters firing steadily as the engine compressor spins to life with a speedy whine. The Cessna Caravan begins its start sequence: Starter engaged, igniters on, fuel on, a whoosh and a low rumble as the gas generator lights. Engine revolutions build with [...]

It’s hot, it’s tiring, it’s a foreign landscape unfolding before you at a hundred and fifty miles per hour. It’s noise and vibration, a heavy load and an aching back from loading it. It’s dusty and turbulent. It’s wrinkled maps and a bag lunch under the seat, a missionary family asleep in the back, exhausted [...]