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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Monday, January 3rd, 2011
One week after I flew Aysa to the hospital, I returned to the tribe to deliver her dead body to her family.
On November 28th rainy season started here with a round of weather that made flying nearly impossible. We were also alerted by Chris and Lynne Strange and Albert Castelijn that they had an emergency medical situation in their tribal location. The most critical patient was a man whom they were not certain if he would make it through the night. The other was a 16 year old girl who was dying of Tuberculosis. We woke up early the next morning and I headed to the airplane while it was still dark. Bailey started getting weather reports and coordinating with the missionaries at the airstrip. Weather was terrible and we knew we had our work cut out for us.
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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Saturday, December 18th, 2010
Was it my sin nature, or just being "one of the guys" that made me do it? I don't know, and we'll never know.
Yesterday I learned that I am known in the Banwaon tribe as the “Mischievous One.” Dumbfounded, I asked, “how did they come up with that?” Of course what I was wondering was, “how did they know, I can’t even speak their language?!” I had forgotten all about a little something that happened a few months ago that had earned me that name. (more…)
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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
Here is the team that worked long hours to check the translation of Exodus. The Tala-Andig church now has one more portion of God's Word in their language.
On November 10th at 4pm our airplane’s paperwork was approved in Manila and we had a flying flight program again! At 4:45pm the same afternoon in Mindanao, I did my first practice flight in order to get current again after over two months of not flying. It has been 13 days since that time and I have had 10 flight days (with more than one flight on most days), 13 supply/passenger flights 19 flight hours, and 87 landings. I flew 38 passengers and 8,151 pounds of groceries, generators, printers and printing materials and other needed supplies. (more…)
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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Saturday, October 9th, 2010
Once the crate made it to the airplane it was time to unpack it and try to get it installed before the rain came.
We have been without an airplane since August and it has had a drastic affect on everyone in our region. Every tribal team that we serve with the airplane is currently in a bind waiting to see when the airplane will be able to fly again. They all had plans for translation checks, deadlines, furloughs, construction projects and moves in mind when the plane was grounded and all of those have come to a screeching halt. Not a day goes by that we don’t feel the burden of these folks who are stranded without a good line of transportation to and from their tribal homes. (more…)
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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
After Tukid returned to his home in the mountains after a very traumatic kidney stone passing, he has been a key player in encouraging the Manubo church. The missionaries to the Manubo recently wrote to us:
“You guys have no idea the impact of Tukid’s trip to hospital and your 4×4 being available on that exact day!!. (more…)
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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
The airplane is tied down in the turnaround area looking down the departure path of the airstrip..
Last weekend Brian drove with a truck full of tools and construction supplies to the tribe where our airplane is still tied down and guarded. It has sat in the jungle for over a month. He arrived just as it was getting dark and hiked down to the village in the rain on a slippery red clay trail. For those of you who have ever hiked the steep route on Bishop’s Peak in San Luis Obispo it’s a lot like that…only on “ice…and in the dark…and in the jungle.” (more…)
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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
Ouch. 'Nuf Said.
There I was in McDonald’s eating an early breakfast with Trevor, one of the NTM missionaries we serve here in the Philippines. I met up with Trevor in a Northern town and we spent the night in a hotel. We wanted to get an early start on the drive to his tribe because the road can be a bit unpredictable. We wanted to be sure to make the drive in daylight for obvious reasons. We were getting an early breakfast and then planned to head into the mountains. (more…)
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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Monday, September 6th, 2010
In case it's been so long that you've forgotten what we look like. Here we are...one happy family!
It doesn’t take long to notice that we’ve been silent for about three months. We apologize. This would have been a very fun and interesting time to be sharing all the exciting things going on in our ministry, but after Dylan came home from the hospital we entered “survival mode.” On top of our normal, full-time ministry here and taking care of a newborn and a 2-year old, we had a few extra highlights in the last three months: (more…)
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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Saturday, September 4th, 2010
God has provided us with a very capable and spacious 1990 70 Series Landcruiser. It seats 8, holds lots of cargo and is at home on the roads here.
After our incident and subsequent bent propeller, we had a major sprint to try and do with our truck what we normally do with the airplane. The missionaries we fly for depend on the airplane for all their groceries, ministry supplies, transportation, and emergency needs. When it was clear that the airplane would be grounded for a couple of months it was also clear that unless we could come up with a plan, the missionaries we fly for would all have to move out of their locations until the plane was fixed. One urgent problem was that just a few days earlier I had flown a visiting young couple into a tribal location so they could see their church’s missionaries. They had an international return flight to the States and due to health reasons they needed a ride in a suitable vehicle to get to the airport. (more…)
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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
We got help from the people in the tribe with securing the airplane until we can get an engine and propeller from the States to install. This is likely the place we'll be doing the work.
We have been working at full throttle the last few months in the flight program on Mindanao. We have been really excited to see first hand the work the Lord is doing among tribal people here in all our locations and how their love for the Lord compels them to reach out to neighboring tribes. It is an exciting time and we were just ramping up into a fully functioning program when things came to a screeching hault. (more…)
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Brian and Bailey Pruett Serving in the Philippines with Aviation 
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