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Vine News Autumn 2020 Vine News Autumn 2020 Greetings from Kampala! What a challenging year it’s Prayer & Answers… been. It’s so strange to be dealing with a virus which has not just im- Thanks first of all for praying for us as a pacted one nation but the entire globe. We hope that you’ve been able family. We also love hearing from you to stay in a place of calm and hope instead of despair. If you’d like some • Please continue praying for MAF Uganda good bedtime reading to bring you some hope and balance instead of to begin flying domestically. Meetings reading the alarming news headlines, please read quora.com and search are happening every week with officials for Dick Stockley who is a British GP here in Uganda answering ques- but decision making has been complicat- tions about Covid19 daily. He has some interesting things to say which ed. Praise that our airstrip has dried out you may find reassuring. Our prayers are with you to keep your eyes and has been repaired in this time of looking up and focussing on whatever is true and noble. closure. Please pray that MAF worldwide has all the funding they need to contin- ue their invaluable work once the world opens up hopefully soon • Thankful that Ariela was able to gradu- Breakthrough Disaster Relief Flight ate with a limited numbers ceremony. Thank you for praying for Ariela. Her job 2 of our fleet waiting in Entebbe International Airport due to our airfield being flooded in Abernathy has been confirmed. After We asked for prayer in March due to the perfect storm that was happen- attaining many permissions she is flying ing in Uganda combining a crippling lockdown, all flights grounded be- to UK for 2 wks quarantine & her move cause of the restrictions, our airstrip being flooded in Kajjansi (which to Scotland to start her gap year. thankfully to date has been repaired and levels have reduced) and major flooding in many parts of the country including the recent Kasese disas- • Prayer again for the most vulnerable in ter and also wide scale flooding on the Sesse Islands on Lake Victoria. Uganda who are really struggling against The day finally arrived our team waited and worked towards for 2 long huge impossibilities. Many of these still months. Operations communicated with the Office of the Prime Minis- affected are teachers who haven't been ter to find a way to bring cargo to people suffering in Kasese after flash- paid for 6 months. We have tried to flooding displaced 25,000 people. Hope feels so beautiful and helps us to help thousands of them on a mobile keep going. The heavy rains slowed down, giving our runway time to money emergency list & a door to door dry out. We were suddenly given permission to fly cargo to Kasese to food drop as part of the Feed5000 ap- bring welcome relief to the local people. Greg was ready in 20 minutes peal. We thank God that with the help answering the call to head out to Entebbe where our plane was waiting of so many generous people worldwide and ready for the emergency flight. Our team spent the entire day load- we have fed to date 13,692! (2,862 fami- ing three of our aircraft parked in Entebbe. The next day another of our lies) This has meant the world to them. fleet was successfully flown out of Kajjansi airfield (a very complicated Please see the donorsee.com/jillvine process of building a ramp to avoid the sinking mud in front of the hang- and scroll down to video updates to wit- ar) to meet the other three planes, fully loaded with relief for the people ness the joy. Get in touch if you’d like to in Kasese who had watched their homes wash away weeks before. help us continue. (continued Pg 2) Biding Time Covid19 has ground the globe to a hault in so many ways and MAF Uganda has been unable to continue with their busy flight schedule since March. Thankfully MAF operations were able to pursue the Civil Aviation Authority to attain permis- sions for Greg and Dave Forney to renew their instrument ratings. Dave’s rating Breakthrough Disaster had expired in May but everything operationally had been brought to a standstill Flight continued.. amidst all of the restrictions affecting the country. Because of this we’re very We are so relieved that we have thankful that permissions are now being granted and our pilots are staying cur- been able to shoulder with rent and ready to fly once flights opens up hopefully before too long. The team Uganda, although the time of have been keeping busy working on operation manuals, medical training (see waiting hasn’t been easy, it right), keeping licenses current, training in the simulator and occasionally have makes us even more thankful for been able to fly medical cargo and emergency aid. Zoe has just started back at the breakthroughs and we want school and has been working hard at a gruelling online schedule for Grade 11. We to celebrate each one with you. also saw the completion of Kenya’s caravan which was repainted and overhauled Thank you for keeping us in in the Uganda hangar and was flown back to Kenya end of July. We’ve also cele- your prayers as we forge ahead brated our 24th wedding anniversary, 8,760 sleeps after our wedding all those through obstacles so MAF can years ago! So many adventures have happened over those 24 years and we’re keep flying where most needed. Please also pray that Uganda’s both thankful to God for our 3 daughters and watching their lives unfolding. covid19 cases will decrease and Although we’ve all had disappointments of plans cancelled (We all missed Jill’s restrictions won’t be reintro- mum’s 80th in Australia and we were all looking forward to seeing friends and duced, but most of all for Ugan- family over the summer, Ariela’s school trip and prom) we keep trying to list all of da to turn their eyes to their Fa- the benefits of this strange time. Jill has made some wonderful Ugandan friends ther for His mercy and healing on her walks up and down the hill when we weren’t allowed to drive, some who and for us as a community to do went onto help her with the Feed5000 appeal. We’ve definitely treasured times all we can to stand with them in together as a family and the extended time we had with Ariela. We’ve been this difficult time. reading Victor Frankl’s books for inspiration. A man who went through the holo- caust and survived only to find out his pregnant young wife, his parents and sib- lings were all killed. In his book, ‘Man’s search for meaning’ he declares from his qualified experience, ‘Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstanc- es, to choose one’s own way.” Also relevant to our present situation Victor advis- es, ‘When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Another nugget, “Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.” Our purpose in this time has been to trust God and to take one day at a time in fulfilling whatever He puts in front of us with His reassur- ance "Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, Ariela graduated & is for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go." deferring Goldsmith in With love Jill & Greg, Esther, Ariela & Zoe London’s offer 24 years! http://greg-jill-vine.blogspot.com donorsee.com/jillvine jillyvine.youtube.com To read an interview Jill gave to a TV station in Qld click on: https://acc.tv/article/lockdown-locusts-and-meagre-livelihoods/. Thank you for your support and friendship with us. Without your faithful support we could not be here in Uganda. You can visit MAF’s website on www.maf-uk.org/Vine or Greg and Jill Vine blogspot For more information on how to support us or to advise of a change of address, please contact Adam Pope at MAF UK, Castle House, Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone,Kent,CT202TN.Ph: 01303 850950; E-mail [email protected] .
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