Catching up!

The last few weeks have been a whirl wind and we have had the pleasure of seeing God move on our behalf repeatedly.   

After spending the summer serving God in Mongolia, Hannah safely returned home to us with many stories to tell.  Her summer with Teen Missions international grew her spiritually in ways that probably could have never happened in Ohio.  She experienced spiritual warfare, seen God answer numerous prayers for provision and protection and had the opportunity to train 40 or so Mongolian Christian teens how to  reach their families, friends and community with the good news and hope that comes from knowing Christ.  The full extent to the success of her summer will not be known until she stands before Christ one day and He Himself tells her "Well done"!

 The last few years we have seen Noah working, struggling and praying about his future after high school.  Once again God showed up in a big way, made his will known in an absolute way.  With a few tears and much excitement we dropped Noah off at "The" Ohio State University.  God also provided him a job on campus as a calculus 1 tutor.  He is attending the on campus church H20 and is getting active in its small group.  He has big plans to go far at OSU.  Please keep him in your prayers.

                                                        

In the hangar I've been working with two apprentices to overhaul two different engines.  Stephen (pictured below) is overhauling a turbo charged six cylinder-ed Contenintal engine that will be the heart of a mission plane flown by Missionary Aviation Fellowship in Mexico.

An interesting tidbit of aviation information is noted in the picture below.  There are two main engine manufactures for reciprocating engines.  The gray one in the foreground is a Lycoming, the gold one in the background is a  Continental Motors engine.  The are very similar in many ways but different in a key few.  The main debatable point often argued over is which one is better...  being a neutral party with years of actual hands on experience I'd have to say the better one depends on how they are taken care of,  Lycoming are know for having camshaft problems, Continentals are known for having cylinder problems but both of the problems stem from how the owner operates and cares for the the engine.  They are both great engines , I would be glad to have either. 

  Ryan (background of  picture) is overhauling a  six cylinder Lycoming engine that will be the heart of a mission plane serving with Missionary Aviation Fellowship in Suriname.

It will be a race to the finish, to see whether Ryan or Stephen gets his engine done and on the test stand first. 

I also have three more engines coming over the next few months.  Two for this fall and one to start in the winter.  

I will try to do better in keeping the updates coming look for another one next week.

Thanks, Josh