CFC Charity Spotlight: Mission Aviation Fellowship

“My baby’s dying. Can you help?”

Stephen and Carolyn Crockett, missionaries among the Moi people in a remote village of Papua, Indonesia, were often awakened at night by the cries of desperate parents. The couple has lived and worked with the Moi people since 2000. They and their own two children were far from any medical center, making them the only medical care available for their family and Papua residents.

That is, until an airstrip was built in 2008. Today, there’s a clinic and an elementary school staffed with Christian nurses and teachers in the Moi village. The medical team spends time educating the people on how to lead healthier lives, including telling them how to avoid getting malaria.

“In order for us to be able to function here, either as the school or the clinic, MAF is playing a key role in that,” said Dr. David, a member of the medical staff at the Papua clinic. “MAF brings the medicine from the nearby city of Nabire so we can distribute. MAF is not only bringing our food supplies but also mosquito nets that we can give to the people. Everything we need MAF is providing for us in a very, very good, efficient way.”

Mission Aviation Fellowship travels to hard-to-reach locations, where people live isolated from the rest of the world, cut off from the most basic necessities in order to share the love of Jesus Christ so that isolated people may be physically and spiritually transformed.

Highly trained pilots maneuver Cessna and KODIAK aircraft through rugged terrain, skillfully landing at short, unimproved airstrips on the sides of mountains, in jungle clearings, or on tropical rivers to bring medicine and doctors, disaster relief, education, evangelists, Bible translators, food supplies, agriculture and clean water projects, and more.

Every 14 minutes, an MAF plane takes off or lands. Last year alone, nearly 19,000 flights delivered 6.25 millions pounds of cargo and 61,648 passengers to 450 destinations.

Mission Aviation Fellowship (CFC #10989) is one of the Combined Federal Campaign charities supported through donations pledged by Federal employees and military personnel. The CFC is the world’s largest and most successful annual workplace giving campaign. Last year, Federal employees contributed more than $93 million to thousands of local, national, and international causes in both funds and volunteer time.

Through their generosity in the CFC, federal and military personnel have helped find cures for children with cancer, supported injured military veterans and their families, provided meals and housing for those in need, and improved millions of lives, building stronger, healthier communities for all of us.

Find out more information about the CFC by visiting https://cfcgiving.opm.gov/.

Community Health Charities was an inaugural member in the CFC and represents top nonprofits like St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (CFC# 10560), American Cancer Society (#10570), Alzheimer’s Association (# 11234), Samaritan’s Purse (#10532), Susan G. Komen (#10615), and Paralyzed Veterans of America (# 33835). They recently launched a #Thanks8billion campaign to recognize military and federal personnel who have given generously through the CFC, raising more than $8 billion over more than 50 years. To join us in saying thank you, visit our website for more information.