Mark and Sarah Newnham: May 2012

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

New Hangar Opening/Dedication

In April we had the official opening/dedication of the new hangar. The MAF-Uganda team was joined by many visitors including all the MAF Africa regional managers that were in Uganda for meetings. The opening consisted of a program of lunch, speeches, worship and time was spent moving to different areas of the hangar and praying for the work carried out in these areas and for safety as the hangar staff carry out their duties. Although in the hangar now since February there is still work to do arranging things and things just the way we need them. Below are a few pictures of the Opening:

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We come from quite different backgrounds (Sarah, a well-travelled Missionary Kid and Mark having grown up in a Christian family in the same town his whole life). We were married in 1999 having met at our home church in Gillingham, Kent. Here Sarah worked as a speech and language therapist and Mark as a Quality Technician for BAE Systems. In 2000, we felt called to full-time mission service abroad.

Mark trained to become an aircraft maintenance engineer with Missionary Maintenance Services in Ohio, USA and we then served with MAF in Uganda from 2005 -2016 where Mark worked as an aircraft maintenance engineer.

From 2016 -2020 we served in Liberia where Mark had the role of Chief Engineer as part of the new and growing programme.

We are now embarking on a new adventure with MAF.

We head to Nairobi, Kenya in September 2020. Mark is taking on the role of Area Head of Maintenance. He will have oversight of the maintenance of the MAF aircraft based in Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania and Chad. This role will be more desk based although he is keen to spend some hours on the hangar floor to maintain his engineering skills.

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