Archive for the ‘Prayer Request’ Category
Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Sunday, March 7th, 2010
We are in need of a small, quiet Honda generator while the power is out all day, every-other-day.
We have lived on Mindanao long enough to understand that the power company is doing their best to keep up with demand and has exceeded our expectations by keeping the power on most of the time. In fact, we were only loosing power maybe once a week for a few hours and that was it. Nothing we couldn’t take in stride. Sure it gets hot without fans and dark at night, but it hasn’t been a big deal until now.
From what we understand the Mindanao power grid is on “Red Alert” due to a major lack of generation caused by an extremely dry dry-season. We found a schedule and some information from the power company and it looks like we can expect to have blackouts from February 16th-June 1st.
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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Sunday, February 28th, 2010
We were able to do our flight on Friday as it was scheduled. It was a big push to get the plane ready, and it was rewarding to see it come out with a load full of cargo.
We are finding that we are part of a life that comes in cycles. We go through slower times and then we go through crazy times. This is the tail end (we think) of one of the crazy times. Thanks for praying for us over these past two weeks. There was an 8 day stretch where Brian put in 113 hours before getting a day to work at home! Brian was on another island for 6 of those 8 days traveling with some of our other teammates here to get an airplane ready to sell. It needs to sell soon so we can get some money to ship our helicopter here. (more…)
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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Monday, February 15th, 2010
This Isnag woman was flown to the hospital from their jungle airstrip. Without the airplane it would be nearly impossible for the missionaries to work here.
In January our first helicopter pilot arrived here in the Philippines to set up shop on Luzon and to get the helicopter program started. It was also last month that we learned that the SIL flight program on Luzon, which has been covering for us until we get a helicopter program started, will be leaving the country even earlier than we thought. March 12 is their last day of flying for us.
This means that if we can’t have a flight program by that time there will be several missionaries who will be unable to continue working in their current capacity in their tribes. They rely heavily on the airplane for transportation and emergency flights. Without the option of a flight in and out of their tribe it would be unwise for them to attempt to continue working there. This concerns us a great deal and we would like to ask for your prayers in a couple of specific areas as we work hard at meeting this deadline. (more…)
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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
405 is officially the plane missionaries will call for service.
We are preparing for our annual conference and this year when we make our report we have some exciting news to share. We are officially announcing to all our missionaries that they can now schedule flights with NTMA on Mindanao. What a big provision from the Lord that we have reached our first of many lofty goals. Thanks so much for your prayers for us as a team here. (more…)
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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Friday, October 16th, 2009
The airplane was in pieces when we received the call, but the Lord led us earlier in the day to limit how much we took the airplane apart.
Thank you so much for your prayers for the emergency flight yesterday. Ben and Garry were able to take off early in the morning and encountered only minor rain showers along the way. They said the airstrip was quite slippery, but still well within our minimum requirements. They took Isol out of the tribe and got him to a nearby town where he was taken to the hospital. The missionary team did a fantastic job of cleaning him up and preparing him for the flight out. He did continue to pass out periodically but had stabilized and should be in good hands now.
Thank you for all your prayers surrounding this flight. When we received the call I was reassembling the airplane after the inspection while Ben and Garry worked on the paperwork. Ben came over to the plane with a sheepish smile on his face and said, “How soon can this plane be flying again? A man in the tribe has stepped on a pig trap and…” (more…)
Tags: Airplane, Answered Prayer, Emergency, Maintenance, Medical, Safe
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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Isol's friends carrying him to the clinic
We were hard at work today on the second of two annual inspections on the aircraft here in Palawan when we received a call at quitting time from some of our tribal missionaries on the island. They had a seriously injured man in their clinic and needed an emergency flight first thing in the morning. Below is the prayer request from the missionary team:
“About 4pm, we got word that some guys were carrying Isol to us, a young man, who had stepped into a pig trap in the jungle. The traps have a spring-loaded bamboo blade, which had gone right through one of his calves, and into the other calf. This happened in the morning, and it was 3pm before he was able to crawl to the nearest people for help. They carried him here. We think he probably lost a fair bit of blood, but praise the Lord, the bleeding had stopped by the time he reached us, though he was in terrible pain and kept passing out. (more…)
Tags: Airplane, Aviation, brian, Clinic, Doctor, Emergency, Injury, Medical, palawan
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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
“They are still in the water!” This is what Hoseph said to Steve, the missionary, one afternoon while discussing and preparing the Bible lessons to be taught later that week.
It all started several months ago. For the first time in history, a small tribe of fishermen began to hear the truth.
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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
The Tour De France has just ended. It is almost inhuman what these cyclists can endure. This year the winner, Alberto Contador, rode 2,141 miles in 21 stages which took him a mere 85.8 hours. How is that even possible?! It takes training, and lots of it. To put it in perspective, that is the distance from our home town in Santa Maria, CA to Nashville TN. When I drove that stretch in my car it took me about 35 hours. (more…)
Tags: bicycle, bike, endurance, hardship, lance armstrong, pain, power, race, struggle, train, training
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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Today is my true 30th birthday and the first time in 23 years that I have celebrated it on the proper day! It is true that I was born on June 23rd, but I was born on the 23rd in Makati, Philippines, not in the United States. How awesome is it that this year I get to celebrate after only waiting 364 short days! (more…)
Tags: 30, birthday, brian, goodness, grace, moody, NTM, NTMA, old, training
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Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
It has been a whirlwind of a first year for Maycie! She has already lived in 7 different homes, traveled to 3 states and lived in 2 countries. She even has her own missionary visa for the Philippines! She knows how to play peek-a-boo in two different languages and we are just waiting to find out how many other things she can do in two languages! She has way more Filipino friends than we do and is practicing her walking so she can play outside with all of them. (more…)
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Brian and Bailey Pruett Serving in the Philippines with Aviation 