They say that 98% of all statistics are made up. Well these statistics were put together with last years records. I used some of these stats while visiting different churches in Sydney. They are encouraging to see the amount of work achieved for God’s Kingdom with the resources MAF PNG has.
1. P2-MFT at work – DHC-6 Twin Otter (workhorses of the fleet)
But after dwelling on them, in the end they are numbers. They don’t completely show the number of individuals and communities spiritually and physically impacted last year. What came to mind was 1 Corinthians 13:1-3.
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.”
- Fleet age in years – 297 years
- Fleet age avergae – 23 years
- Aircraft in fleet – 15
- Total hours flown by pilots – 10884 hours
- Total hours flown in PNG – 6890 hours
- Number of airstrips on MAF records in PNG – 592 airstrips
- Number of airstrips MAF landed at in the year – 272 airstrips
- Total flights – 14063 flights
- Fuel used – 776,318 ltr (JET A1); 227,612 ltr (Avgas)
- Flights per day (sectors) – 54 flights
- Estimated distance flown – 1,433,149 km’s (35.8x distance around the globe)
- Church subsidy tickets used – K 851,649
- Medical evacuations – 480 (960 passengers, including patient & guardian)
- Total passengers – 36,998 (15% church/mission work; 9% education)
- Total freight – 2,593,264 kg’s (38% community development)
Despite the great amount of work achieved last year and lives impacted, if we do it without love, than we don’t accomplish much before God, quite a challenging reminder.
