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When you live near the ends of the earth, it really helps to have an aircraft to get there. 

On average, a minute in an aircraft saves a missionary an hour of surface travel. An hour in an aircraft saves a missionary a week of surface travel.  

A missionary cannot carry on his back for a week what an aircraft can carry in an hour. 

Two minutes in a helicopter saves a missionary a full day of surface travel. 

Because of where they live and surface routes they travel, the cost of surface travel to missionary health often adds a week or two of incapacity due to injuries such as cuts on the feet, infections, contusions to limbs, sunburn, fatigue and many diseases that are common in tropical climates where missionaries often live. 

Aircraft literally speed up the work of establishing thriving churches among the least-reached people groups. 

Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man’s foundation: But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.  – Romans 15:20-21

The Heart of Aviation Service

The focus of Ethnos360 aviation teams is to take the gloriously good news of the Gospel to people who have never heard it before… and to establish thriving churches among them so that they can tell other people what they have learned. 

this work requires a sustained effort in difficult locations over a long period of time. Aviation often makes completion of this work possible in less than a lifetime of labor. 

In 1943, while carving a path through the jungle to create a donkey trail for supplies in an effort to establish peaceful contact with the nomadic Ayore people, a question was asked of the missionary team, “Why go out there and risk your lives? They are not worth going out after.”

When he heard the question, Cecil Dye’s response was, “It is because the glorious name of Jesus is not known here, and must be made known at any cost…”

One reason why some language groups have not yet been told about Jesus is that they are not easy to reach. Barriers of language, culture, politics, religion, and geography have hindered messengers. Many unreached people groups live in very remote places on Earth. Without aviation it is nearly impossible to maintain a sustained effort of a decade or more in those places; to teach people to observe or obey all that Jesus commanded. The physical, spiritual, and emotional toll is costly even with aviation services. In history, many ministries that have not had access to aviation services have been greatly hindered, interrupted, or delayed. These are important and urgent problems to solve because we are commissioned to deliver the message of eternal life that saves souls from eternal condemnation. 

Using aircraft speeds the work of church-planting missionaries, taking years off of the time it takes to establish thriving churches of Christ-followers and to place God’s written word in their hands. 

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At the heart of Ethnos360 Aviation is completing the Great Commission work of Ethnos360, local churches, and like-minded missionaries. Generally, where Ethnos360 Aviation operates there are no other reliable, safe, faithful services or avenues.

Ethnos360 Aviation provides safe, faithful, economical, reliable, professional aviation services to Ethnos360 missionaries, the churches planted by those teams, and other ministries of like heart. Medical transportation, disaster relief, and community services are often part of the work of church planting and caring for the people in these remote places. 

The aviation services enable church planting missionaries to travel more efficiently and remain on location to accomplish their work. 

Ethnos360 Aviation uses fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters to move people and supplies from cities into remote places. 

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How does it work? 

Imagine you are camping in a very remote place… for a decade. The roads are impassable or destroyed. There are no grocery stores. Local water supply is either rain or a river. What would you need to survive? You brought enough food for how many days? Is you shelter strong enough protect you? Do you need fuel for your generator or chainsaw? (If you brought them.) 

You are there to accomplish an objective, but you will be too busy surviving to complete your mission. 

Then your friends send in a helicopter with emergency supplies!

With a helicopter and support teams, you can plan to maintain a presence anywhere on Earth long enough to accomplish your objectives.

In this case, the objective is to establish a thriving church.  The steps to get there include establishing a presence, building a place to live, meeting the needs of your family, establishing friendly relationships with people, learning an unwritten language, creating an alphabet, teaching literacy, translating the Bible, presenting the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and teaching people to obey what Jesus commanded. 

You will need food, money, shelter, building supplies, medicine, fuel, construction teams, mechanics, plumbers, teachers, literacy consultants, language acquisition consultants, translation consultants, church planting consultants, and medical assistance.

All of that them and that come to you by aircraft from your support team who do what they do so that you can complete your work. 

Aviation Videos

Videos – What, Why, How

Wantakia: Getting Started (10 min.)
8 Minutes (4 min.)
Yembiyemi: Unto the Nations (30 min.)
Ee-Taow:The Mouk Story (24 min.)
Ethnos360: A Vision for Finishing (2:42)

The aviation leaders, pilots and mechanics are usually career missionaries with aviation skills who are held to high professional standards. Most of the personnel in non-aviation roles are also career missionaries. While these people are the core of the aviation services around the world, skilled associates, interns and volunteers assist the missionary teams in a variety of roles. So, if you didn’t see what you were looking for at first glance, ask questions and keep looking.

Pilots and aviation maintenance personnel are certified in both their home country and the country where they serve. Such certification normally requires years of investment to attain. 

Ethnos360 Aviation does not hire personnel. All personnel are missionaries who are supported by friends, family, churches of people who value their work and ministries.

Would you like to help? You might find a way you can contribute here:

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Most of the videos showing the work of Ethnos360 have aircraft in them because of where our co-workers live. 

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