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Paul and Cathy were members of AYF in the late 70’s and later became
Pathfinder and House Group leaders.
Not
long after they were married they felt that God had some full time work
for them overseas. This initially began with a move to Sheffield in 1992
to work for a Christian management training company. Three years later
they felt the Lords prompting that another change was imminent and this
led to a move to Africa where they helped set up a youth program with
the Lesotho-Durham link in the capital Maseru.
An initial three year commitment turned into four after which the youth
work was handed over to the nationals.
Then, after
feeling God was moving them into mission flying Paul enrolled at a flying
school and completed
his South African commercial license
with an instrument
rating in December 1999.
The family
moved from Lesotho to White River in South Africa in June of 2003 where they now
work
with
Mercy Air.
Mercy Air was
borne out of Youth with a Mission (YWAM) and are a sister, although smaller
organization
to the more well known Mercy Ships.
They are situated near Nelspruit and provide a service to missions in the southern African region but
mainly serve Mozambique.
They also do aid, relief and development flights and operate
five aircraft at
present - a six seat Cessna 210 and 310, a Beech Baron
and an eleven seat
Beach 18. They also have a six seat Eurocopter 350 which is mainly used
for the relief flights.
When not flying Paul is responsible for flight operations and publicity. Cathy, who is a
registered Nurse and Midwife works part time at Africa School of Missions
which
is a bible college preparing missionaries for overseas service. She teaches
basic medical skills and is part of a team which visits a rural clinic
once a
week. Matthew has now flown the nest and is studying Journalism at Rhodes
University in Grahamstown.
Contact them at: pcm@mercyair.org Skype
address:
paul.middleton2
www.mercyair.org
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