Prayer Requests:✦ For a safe delivery and a healthy baby girl!✦ For more people to join our team of monthly financial and prayer supporters✦ Joel’s dad (Denny) was just diagnosed with prostate cancer. Please pray as he pursues treatment.

Under His Wings Psalm 91:4

March 2013 Joel & Missy Davis Serving through Aviation in the Philippines joel_davis@ntm.org www.ntm.org/joel_davis

Davis Photo Journal - 2 Years in Review

where God provided this wonderful house for our family.

to small grass airstrips in the jungle like this...

Joel brings supplies like this, along with frozen meat, dry goods,

building supplies, mail, muffins (from Missy), medicine, and just about anything the missionaries need.... as long as it will fit in the

airplane.

so that tribal people like this have access to the Gospel and solid

Bible teaching.

to provide air support for our missionaries who live in these

remote locations...

Joel started flying this airplane

He stuffs the plane like this and delivers everything to the villages to keep our missionaries stocked up, well fed, and encouraged to keep doing their work in their

villages.

I (Missy) stay by the radio to track every flight Joel makes, track him on the internet via

GPS, and check on our missionaries in the jungle every day. I also do lots of billing and bookkeeping. (No picture, too

boring.)

In April of 2011, we moved to this mountain town in the

middle of the island of Mindanao,

Joel’s Flying Stats 2011-2013

Number of landings: 1,013Hours flown: 229.9Passengers flown: 299Cargo hauled: 99,444 lbsUnusual cargo on the plane: a monkey (see below), a f u l l s i ze re f r i g e r a t o r, motorcycles, a stove, a washing machine, 8 foot sheets of plywood, and a really scared cat.

Last year Joel got to fly a newly finished New Testament into one of

the villages... super exciting!As a family we started studying

Visayan, which is the language in our town...

and Joel flew us into the jungle where we got to visit a couple of the villages

where our missionaries work.

In one of them, we had a jungle picnic with rice, sardines in tomato sauce, all on biodegradable banana

leaf plates!

We were pretty excited when Joel brought Baxter to live with us for a

few months. Baxter got evicted when he decided that jumping on our

heads was more fun than just watching us walk by his perch.

Ryley and Camryn love their friends from next door... and they love

catching critters like the shrew in this box... *shiver*

and this big old warty toad...

hmmm maybe not.

N o w o u r 6 - m o n t h furlough is upon us and we are looking forward to seeing YOU, and telling you more about what God is doing here on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines! We will be Stateside March 15-September 13, 2013. Please let us know if you’d like us to come share at your church, Sunday school class, or small group!

We remain Under His Wings...

What will we miss from the Philippines?Joel: Our ministry and our coworkers. Mang Inasal (a BBQ Chicken place here)Missy: Our friends & our job. Mangoes. The convenient little stores right next to our house that have fruits, veggies, and eggs.Ryley: My stuffed animals. Our pets. Our house and our swings. My friends. Camryn: Brody & Boone (our dogs). My friends.

What are we excited about in the USA?Joel: Family. Friends. Food. Fishing.Missy: Seeing everyone we miss. One stop shopping. Blending in. Public bathrooms with toilet paper and soap. Target. Publix. Yummy food.Ryley: Seeing our families. Disney World. Swimming and playing at the beach.Camryn: Picking up shells at the beach. Seeing our family.