Finally...Pictures of Jeyson's Trip

Finally, the long awaited pictures of Jeyson's recent trip. He's gotten far enough in his training that he was able to join a missionary pilot from SIL (Wicliff in Brazil) on a 5 day trip in Mato Grosso, transporting missionaries and indigenous people who work Bible translation and their supplies to isolated places. I had the hardest time trying to narrow down the pictures so there's a lot! Enjoy!

Getting ready to take off from the Asas hangar in Anapolis Monday morning.
See you in a few days!

Joy (the other pilot) and Fritz (who accompanied the flights during the trip)

One of the trips was to a tribe in the Pantanal....the world's largest wetlands. The few existing roads that there are, are completely flooded and unusable for 6 months out of the year.

Some amazing views of the marshland

Landing strip ahead

Here they picked up three indigenous (Bororo) women and took them to receive training to learn how to translate the Bible into their language.

The women were dropped off in a canoe at the place where the plane landed.

Each day was had anywhere from 1-3 flights and at night Jeyson got to stay with a missionary family in a larger city, Cuiaba. Some amazing views from the next few days...

A small island with trees looks like it could be a tiny piece of moss in a puddle :)
During the flights, they flew over many small tribal villages. The following pictures are of Xavante villages.

So many trees!

Villages built by the edge of the water...

Villages surrounded by an endless sea of trees

The river system is the only way to get around, other than airplanes....needless to say airplanes are much more efficient in long distances like these!

Dropping off a 70+ year old missionary who has faithfully lived among the tribes of Brazil, translating the Bible into their languages.

She always has the pilot fly over the tribal village to alert the tribe to meet her at the landing strip. She brought gallons of gas for the outboard motor they use to get around.

What a privilege to be part of this work....what a joy to be a small piece of the bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ to extremely remote places!

It is so exciting to see Jeyson's hard work and training being put into action - a small taste of the ministry ahead