Time to quietly think and pray. One of the benefits of long flights across the jungles and oceans is quiet time. At least when the weather is good. After several weeks in the US with speaking appointments in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Oklahoma, Aunt Becky and I left on our long flight to Bolivia in the Twin Comanche. First we stopped in Florida at a small airport that has a hide-a-bed couch for 4 hours of rest, then at 2am we took off into the night sky on a 6-hour flight to Puerto Rico. That was followed by another 6-hr flight to Guyana, an 8-hour flight to Northern Bolivia and a 4-hour flight to Santa Cruz.

As we flew over Miami, I prayed that someday God would soon grant us the funds to broadcast television live across the city in Spanish.  As we approached Puerto Rico, I prayed for a TV opportunity we have there to broadcast across the country. The missing component there is also funds. The solution is always prayer as the key in God’s hands. On reaching Guyana, our director, Pastor James Ash, spoke to me privately about some urgent needs for administrative help. We prayed together that God would send workers into the field to support the growing needs.

Departing at 11pm, we flew up into the inky black skies over Guyana’s mountains and leveled off for 8 hours across the Amazon jungle rivers of Brazil. What a large country, what large needs. I prayed for our TV network www.TerceiroAnjo.com which is doing such a great work across the Portuguese speaking world and will soon be broadcast on open television across hundreds of cities in Brazil. As we flew past Manaus at 2am, I prayed for our daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren sleeping down there somewhere, for our airbase staff, also sleeping along the river, and thanked the Lord for our beautiful FM radio station in Manaus which recently received authorization to continue broadcasting operations. Then, as the sky began to lighten and the sun began to peek out across the horizon, we were cleared for landing by the cheerful tower operator. “Buenos Dias Pastorcito.. Bienvenido a Bolivia. Está autorizado aterrizar.”  (Good Morning Pastor. Welcome to Bolivia. You are cleared for landing.) I thanked God for Bolivia and the privilege of the freedoms we still have to travel and work. “Viva Bolivia. Que Dios la bendiga,” (Long live Bolivia, and may God bless you) I said as we touched down in the country we call home.

We need to pray more; more for our church to wake up before it is too late; more for our missionaries who live to serve others; more for the donors who sacrifice so much to keep the work going forward; more for the four angels of Revelation 7 to hold the winds until God’s work is done.  Most of all we should pray for the Holy Spirit to be poured out so that we can be purified of all sin and be prepared to stand when Jesus appears.

This is my prayer, From the Frontlines, Uncle David