This past few days have been a steep learning curve for me as I created and published our first website, www.koskijourney.com, as another avenue for communicating. We will keep updating this blog with regular happenings but think that the website will be a good starting point for those just learning about us and what we will be doing through AIM AIR.
I designed this website on Apple's web creator, iWeb, and uploaded it via FTP to Hostmonster.com using Filezilla. Overall it was a fairly easy process but did get frustrating at times since I really know nothing about creating websites, webhosting, ftp, html, etc.
Now that we have a working site up, I will start to dig deeper into website development and am looking at using Joomla or Drupal to create another version that will hopefully be easier for us to maintain once we are in Africa.
If any of you have experience with this sort of thing let me know as I can use all the help I can get with this!
Jonathan
1.31.2011
1.24.2011
A Recap of Sorts...
For those of you who read our newsletter, this is old news. If you don't read our newsletters, then read on!
We have a specific departure date - July 14! This is six months later than we had been anticipating but God is good and has showed us He has gone before us in this entire process and that His timing is perfect, not ours. To illustrate this, within the span of a few short hours of determining that we would be here another six months, we were provided jobs and a house to live in until July!
Even though we had been mentally geared to go in January we are thankful for the additional time here. Over the next few months Rachel will be teaching again at Northside Adult Basic Education in Minneapolis and I will be flight instructing and studying for my upcoming pilot exams in Kenya.
We are very excited to be this close to departing for Africa but we also know that there will be many challenges ahead and that the work will not be easy. Therefore we are grateful for this extra time to make sure we are leaving with a solid base of prayer warriors and supporters. We appreciate you and are grateful for your participation in this exciting work!
We have a specific departure date - July 14! This is six months later than we had been anticipating but God is good and has showed us He has gone before us in this entire process and that His timing is perfect, not ours. To illustrate this, within the span of a few short hours of determining that we would be here another six months, we were provided jobs and a house to live in until July!
Even though we had been mentally geared to go in January we are thankful for the additional time here. Over the next few months Rachel will be teaching again at Northside Adult Basic Education in Minneapolis and I will be flight instructing and studying for my upcoming pilot exams in Kenya.
We are very excited to be this close to departing for Africa but we also know that there will be many challenges ahead and that the work will not be easy. Therefore we are grateful for this extra time to make sure we are leaving with a solid base of prayer warriors and supporters. We appreciate you and are grateful for your participation in this exciting work!
12.15.2010
11.27.2010
The end of Orientation and Mountain Week
Orientation is finished as of one week ago. What a tremendously incredible time! It was awesome to learn from those who have so much experience in mission aviation, both in flight and in maintenance. It was also very humbling and encouraging to see that their faith in Jesus came first in everything which then defined how they worked in the hangar or cockpit.
This past week we returned to MN and promptly got sick, which probably has something to do with leaving sunny warm NC and arriving in the frigid great white north! I am grateful, though, that we stayed mostly healthy through the end of our time in NC.
The second to last week of Orientation was Mountain Week. I went into the mountains near Asheville, NC, and had a chance to put together all the things I had been learning since August.
This past week we returned to MN and promptly got sick, which probably has something to do with leaving sunny warm NC and arriving in the frigid great white north! I am grateful, though, that we stayed mostly healthy through the end of our time in NC.
The second to last week of Orientation was Mountain Week. I went into the mountains near Asheville, NC, and had a chance to put together all the things I had been learning since August.
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| On short final for Brown International, a short undulating runway in a field owned by Mr. Brown. |
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| Mr. Brown, who not only let us use his field but also mowed the runway for us, and Steve, a new Instructor Pilot at JAARS. |
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| Liftoff from Brown Int'l. |
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| Evan, one of the instructors in charge of Orientation, discussing the runway with Mr. Brown. |
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| Look closely! In the middle is a runway called Valhalla. |
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| BJ, another instructor pilot, along with Evan and Steve - setting up Valhalla. |
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| The view from the top of Valhalla. |
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| Landing at Valhalla. |
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| Taking off from Valhalla. |
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| Landing at Valhalla. |
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| Taking off from Valhalla. |
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| Can you find the runway in the middle of the picture? This is Friendship. |
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| Looking up the runway at Friendship. |
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| BJ and I. |
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| Taking off from Avery County in Spruce Pine, NC. |
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| Landing at Avery County. |
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| Ryan and BJ. Ryan is the owner of the FBO at Avery County who let us take over his hangar during Mountain Week and provided us with everything we needed. |
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| Final Approach to Valhalla. |
10.21.2010
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